A new generation of architects emerging from UCD in the 1970s, looked to the urban tradition of European architecture as a source of inspiration for modern architecture in Ireland.
The Temple Bar regeneration designed by Group 91, a consortium of relatively young UCD graduates, employed the principles of European architectural precedents to provide public space and urban continuity in the historic centre of Dublin.
TEMPLE BAR
Traditional streetscape
Temple Bar, a major project in urban renewal.
TEMPLE BAR
New innovative spaces
Temple Bar subtly combines the old with the new
Some of the founding practises of group 91 have received international awards for their work in Ireland and have achieved significant commissions outside of Ireland. O'Donnell and Tuomey have won civic and educational competitions for buildings currently under construction in the UK
O'DONNELL TUOMEY
RIAI Award and AAI Award for Centre for Research into Infectious Diseases UCD
Grafton Architects won the World Architecture Foundation prize in 2008 for their Bocconi University building in Milan, the first major international prize to be awarded to an Irish architectural practice.
Universita Luigi Bocconi, Milan, Italy
Tom de Paor graduated from UCD in 1991. Winner of the Young Architect of the Year award in teh UK, de Paor's work has been three times included in Ireland's pavilion at the Venice Bienalle. his individual talent and inventiveness in three-dimensional design is evident in the distinctive pumping station in Clontarf and a number of private houses recently completed in Dublin.
