Grafton Architects

Grafton Architects was established in 1978. Directors Yvonne Farrell & Shelley McNamara are both graduates of UCD, are Fellows of the RIAI, are International Honorary Fellows of the RIBA and are elected members of Aosdána, the eminent Irish Art organisation. In 2013 Grafton Architects’ University of Limerick Medical School was shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK’s best building; in 2016 they won the inaugural RIBA International Prize for their bold new vertical campus building for Lima’s specialist engineering university (UTEC) in Peru. Winners of the RIBA Gold Medal and the Pritzker Prize in the same year, 2020. In 2021 their building at Kingston University in London won the Stirling Prize for Best New Building.