The Heneghan Peng Architects (HPARC) architecture firm founded by

Róisín Heneghan Róisín Heneghan is an Irish architect and designer. She is co-founder of Heneghan Peng Architects along with Shi-Fu Peng. The company was established in New York in 1999 but was shifted to Dublin in 2001. In 2014, she was shortlisted for ''A ...

and Shih-Fu Peng. The company was established in

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in 1999, but moved to Dublin in 2001 and is, as of 2021, based in

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...

and

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. It has won many significant commissions, including the Grand Egyptian Museum, Áras Chill Dara in

Kildare Kildare () is a town in County Kildare, Ireland. , its population was 8,634 making it the 7th largest town in County Kildare. The town lies on the R445, some west of Dublin – near enough for it to have become, despite being a regional cen ...

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, the Giant's Causeway Visitors' Centre, and new footbridges at the

London Olympic Park Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is a sporting complex and public park in Stratford, Hackney Wick, Leyton and Bow, in east London. It was purpose-built for the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, situated adjacent to the Stratford City develo ...

. To win the Grand Egyptian Museum project, the firm won a design competition with 1,557 entries, despite having only three staff members at the time. In 2009, the company won three competitions: for the Arabsat headquarters in

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, the Mittelrheinbruecke competition to build a bridge over the

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between

St. Goar Sankt Goar is a town on the west bank of the Middle Rhine in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Hunsrück-Mittelrhein, whose seat is in Emmelshausen. Sankt Goar is well kn ...

and

St. Goarshausen Sankt Goarshausen (abbreviated St. Goarshausen) is a town located in the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis in Nassau on the eastern shore of the Rhine, in the section known as the Rhine Gorge, directly across the river from Sankt Goar, in the German state Rhinel ...

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, and the competition to design a new library and academic building for the

University of Greenwich The University of Greenwich is a public university located in London and Kent, United Kingdom. Previous names include Woolwich Polytechnic and Thames Polytechnic. The university's main campus is at the Old Royal Naval College, which along with it ...

. The building sits within a

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and is home to both the Department of Architecture & Landscape and the Department of Creative Professions & Digital Arts in

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

Awards

* The Áras Chill Dara project in Kildare, won a 2006 RIBA European Award. * The Giant's Causeway Visitors' Centre won a RIBA National Award and was nominated for the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2013. It was also shortlisted for the 2013

Mies van der Rohe Award The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award is a prize given biennially by the European Union and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona, 'to acknowledge and reward quality architectural production in Eu ...

. * 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture for their design of

the Palestinian Museum The Palestinian Museum is a flagship project of the Welfare Association, a non-profit organization for developing humanitarian projects in Palestine. Representing the history and aspirations of the Palestinian people, the museum aims to discuss ...

References

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External links

Heneghan Peng websiteGrand Egyptian Museum websiteUniversity of Greenwich new building website
Architecture firms based in New York City Architecture firms of Ireland Companies of the Republic of Ireland