source: O’Donnell + Tuomey, Mies van der Rohe Foundation The brief was to provide an eight classroom school to the Department of Education and Science standard schedule on a very restricted site. The site is at a key location on the route from the city centre across the Grand Canal towards Ranelagh village. The neighbouring Georgian Square and terraces form an intact and significant urban design composition. Th

source: O’Donnell + Tuomey St. Angela’s College is a long-established 500 pupil girls Secondary School, dating from the late 19th Century, situated on a steeply sloping mid-block site on St. Patrick’s Hill in Cork city centre. We were first commissioned to consider the development possibilities of the site in 1999. The transition from initial feasibility studies to eventual completion of construction works on s

source: O’Donnell+ Tuomey photography: Michael Moran, O’Donnell + Tuomey The intention of the project is to accommodate the energies of existing community activities within a new building, a place apart integrated within the larger consistency, a knot in the grain of the given pattern. Four separately functioning blocks emerge from a single storey plinth which is cut out to form four courtyard gardens. Th

Source: O’Donnell + Tuomey website Photography: Dennis Gilbert The location of this primary school for 500 children is in a large suburban housing area with few facilities, where social deprivation is widespread. The social conditions in this area of Dublin led to the inclusion of special facilities for pre-school children, children with special needs and facilities for the care of children outside school hours

Fuente: O’Donnell + Tuomey Fotografía: O’Donnell + Tuomey  The Gallery is located at a crossroads, between Soho and Oxford Street. The corner site is visible in a glimpse view through the continuous shop frontage of Oxford Street. Ramillies Street is approached down a short fight of steps, leading to a quieter world behind the scenes of London life, a laneway with warehouses and backstage delivery doors. The brick-wa

Fuente: Dezeen, Architecture.com Fotografía: Dennis Gilbert In the midst of a complex mediaeval London street pattern O’Donnell and Tuomey have woven a little of their magic. This remarkable project is an object lesson in mobilising the limitations of a site into a startlingly original building which makes a massive contribution to its townscape. The architects started by taking the geometry of tight angles as the de

Fuente: O’Donnell + Tuomey Fotografía: O’Donnell + Tuomey  The Lyric Theatre stands on a sloping site at triangular junction between the grid pattern of Belfast’s brick streetscape and the serpentine parkland of the River Lagan. The architectural design was developed in response to the urban and landscape conditions of the site. The building site was tightly restricted and irregular in shape. The bu