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Shane O'Toole - architect / critic

Tegral company architect
Irish architecture critic for The Sunday Times


Born 1955 in Dublin.
Graduated in architecture from University College Dublin in 1979. Has been and sometimes still is an R&D manager, editor and exhibition curator, university tutor and lecturer, radio and television broadcaster and campaigner for threatened buildings.
Co-founded Group 91 Architects and ran his own architectural practice during the 1990s.
Tegral company architect and Irish architecture critic for The Sunday Times.
Jury member, European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Award), 2003.

Projects & Prizes

Convenor of Collaboration: The Pillar Project (Dublin, 1988) -- awarded the Grand Prix of the International Biennale of Architecture, Cracow, 1989.

Co-founder of DOCOMOMO (Eindhoven, 1990).

Co-author (with Group 91) of the Temple Bar Architectural Framework Plan (Dublin, 1991) - finalist for the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion Award for European Architecture, 1996 and winner of the UIA Sir Patrick Abercrombie Prize, 2002.

Co-designer (with Michael Kelly & Susan Cogan) of The Ark (Temple Bar, 1995) -- winner in 1996 of the AAI (Architectural Association of Ireland) Downes Medal, PLAN Building of the Year and awards from both the RIAI and RIBA.

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