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Grafton Architects is a firm of architects with a wide range of experience of both building projects in Ireland and in numerous countries around the world and Master Planning strategies, including for The Office of Dublin Works for Dublin Castle and for Waterways Ireland and Offaly County Council for the Harbour Area, in Tullamore, Co.Offaly.

Grafton Architects have consistently sought to produce work of the highest standard, believing fundamentally that Architecture deeply matters to society at both a practical and cultural level.

In 2018, Pritzker Prize Laureates: Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, who co-founded Grafton Architects in 1978, were invited to be the Curators of the Venice Architecture Biennale – the largest global platform for contemporary architectural ideas. The topic chosen by them for their Biennale manifesto was Freespace, which emphasised generosity as an important aspect at the core of Architecture.

Grafton Architects’ projects include:

The Town House Building, Kingston University, London; The School of Economics, University of Toulouse 1 Capitol, Toulouse, France; Institut Mines Télécom University Building, Paris Saclay, France; The Marshall Institute for the London School of Economics, England; Headquarters for Electricity Supply Board with OMP Architects, Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin; Phase 2 of UTEC University, Lima, Peru; ATC Timber Research Building, University of Arkansas, USA; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork; Dublin City Council Housing, St.Anne’s, Raheny and Constitution Hill, Dublin.

The practice has won numerous awards for their work, including:

The RIAI Institute of Architects of Ireland Gold Medal for Architecture 2007 – 2009 for Universita Luigi Bocconi, Milan, Italy; the RIBA Inaugural Royal Institute of British Architects International Prize for the Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC) in Lima, Peru in 2016; the 2020 RIBA Royal Gold Medal; L’Équerre d'argent Prize for best building in France with Vigneau Zilio Architectes for Toulouse School of Economics; the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies Van der Rohe Award 2022 for Town House, Kingston University, London.