Grafton Architects wins 2020 RIBA Royal Gold Medal
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, co-founders of Grafton Architects, are the first all-woman pair to be awarded the 2020 RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture. More
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Watch Grafton Architects speak at the Royal Academy annual architecture lecture 2018
Grafton Architects founders Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara explained their theme for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 in the Royal Academy of Arts' annual architecture lecture. More
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"Designing and writing about a building are very different processes of thought"
The Venice Biennale manifesto of Grafton Architects is proof that vapid commentary can diminish great architecture, says Owen Hatherley. More
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Competition: win tickets to the RA's annual architecture lecture with Grafton Architects
For the latest Dezeen competition, we've teamed up with the Royal Academy of Arts to give readers the chance to win one of five pairs of tickets to a lecture with Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, founders of Grafton Architects and curators of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018. More
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Architects can make a big impact "at a very small scale" say Grafton Architects founders
Architects can't solve the world's problems, but they can still make a significant impact, say Venice Architecture Biennale directors Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, who compare architecture to the slow-food movement. More
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Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara to deliver Royal Academy's annual lecture
Dezeen promotion: Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects will give the annual Royal Academy of Arts architecture lecture on "freespace", the theme they chose for this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. More
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Grafton Architects founders name eight projects that define their career so far
In a Dezeen exclusive, Grafton Architects directors Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara – who have just been selected to curate next year's Venice Architecture Biennale – have listed eight of the most significant projects from their career to date. More
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Grafton Architects chosen to curate Venice Architecture Biennale 2018
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, founders of Dublin-based Grafton Architects, have been named as curators for the 2018 edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale. More
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Grafton Architects wins inaugural RIBA International Prize for university campus in Peru
RIBA International Prize: a vertical, concrete university campus in Peru by Grafton Architects has been named world's best new building by the Royal Institute of British Architects. More
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Grafton Architects wins contest for new LSE building in central London
Grafton Architects has been selected to design a new faculty building for the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in Holborn, seeing off a shortlist of prestigious firms. More
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Grafton Architects stands concrete columns in rows to create The Ogham Wall at the V&A
London Design Festival 2015: Dublin studio Grafton Architects has installed rows of textured concrete monoliths inside the V&A museum's tapestry gallery, referencing an ancient script and prehistoric standing stones. More
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Medical School and Student Residences at the University of Limerick by Grafton Architects
This group of university buildings by Irish office Grafton Architects, including a limestone-clad medical school and three red-brick student housing blocks, was one of the six projects named on the 2013 Stirling Prize shortlist last week (+ slideshow). More
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Architecture as New Geography by Grafton Architects
Irish studio Grafton Architects have acknowledged the influence of celebrated Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha on their work by constructing models of his buildings at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More
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World Architecture Festival 2012: Universita Luigi Bocconi by Grafton Architects
World Architecture Festival 2012: in our second movie celebrating this year's World Architecture Festival in Singapore from 3-5 October, WAF programme director Paul Finch explains why the super-jury headed by architect Robert Stern selected the Universita Luigi Bocconi by Grafton Architects as World Building of the Year 2008 in the festival's inaugural year. More
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Universita Luigi Bocconi by Grafton Architects
A university faculty building in Milan by Irish practice Grafton Architects has been named World Building of the Year at the inaugural World Architecture Festival, held in Barcelona last week. More
