Roisin heneghan biography

Róisín Heneghan is an.
Róisín Heneghan is an Irish architect and designer.
Róisín Heneghan was born in Ireland and studied architecture at University College Dublin.

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Heneghan Peng Architects

Architecture firm

The Heneghan Peng Architects (HPARC) architecture firm was founded by Róisín Heneghan and Shih-Fu Peng. The company was established in New York in 1999, but moved to Dublin in 2001 and is, as of 2021, based in Dublin and Berlin.

It has won many significant commissions, including the Grand Egyptian Museum,^[1]^[2] Áras Chill Dara in Kildare, Ireland, the Giant's Causeway Visitors' Centre, and new footbridges at the London Olympic Park.^[3]^[4] 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 Saudi Arabia,^[5] the Mittelrheinbruecke competition to build a bridge over the Rhine between St. Goar and St. Goarshausen in Germany,^[6] and the competition to design a new library and academic building for the University of Greenwich in London. The building sits within a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is home to

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Roisin heneghan biography of barack

A Mayo architect is one of the leading lights in her field designing major projects all over the globe.

Erris native Roisín Heneghan’s incredible talents are visible at some of the most famous landmarks in the world.

The UCD and Harvard graduate met business partner Shih-Fu Peng at Harvard, and they founded heneghan peng architects (hparc) in New York in Two years later, they moved to Dublin after winning an open international architectural competition for the design of the Kildare Civic offices.

Major projects include the Grand Museum of Egypt beside the Great Pyramids, the Giant's Causeway Visitors' Centre on the Causeway Coast World Heritage Site, the National Gallery of Ireland historic wings refurbishment, and the Palestinian Museum at Bir Zeit, which was awarded the Aga Khan Award in Architecture.

Significant recent projects include the Visitors' Centre at the Botanic Gardens Berlin (with Studio Qwertz), Storm

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Grand Egyptian Museum: project by Shi-Fu Peng

The Irish-Chinese team of Róisín Heneghan & Shi-Fu Peng (Heneghan-Peng Architects) are to design the Grand Egyptian Museum, the future museum – the biggest in the world - to be built be the pyramids of Giza. In second and third place were the Austrian practice Coop Himmelb(l)au and Renato Rizzi from Italy.

These are the results of the weighty international competition – set at the beginning of 2002 involving 1557 professionals from all over the world – which with a budget of 350 million dollars will bring about the construction of the new site for the museum (currently in Cairo) which is to hold over 150,000 exhibits and cover an area of 50 hectares, expected to attract 3 million visitors and researchers each year.

The new building, which will rise up in the desert between the pyramids and the Egyptian capital, has been conceived in such a way as to indicate to visitors the change from the modernity of the city (Alexandria and Cairo) and the ancient cultural heritage of the area (the pyramids). Work is due to star