The Heneghan Peng Architects (HPARC) architecture firm was founded by Róisín Heneghan 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

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and

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. It has won many significant commissions, including the

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, Áras Chill Dara in

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, the Giant's Causeway Visitors' Centre, and new footbridges at the London Olympic Park. 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

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headquarters in

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, the Mittelrheinbruecke competition to build a bridge over the

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between St. Goar and St. Goarshausen in

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

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. 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

Awards

* The Áras Chill Dara project in Kildare, won a 2006 RIBA European Award. * The Giant's Causeway Visitors' Centre won a

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and was nominated for the RIBA

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in 2013. It was also shortlisted for the 2013 Mies van der Rohe Award. * 2019

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for their design of the Palestinian Museum.

References

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External links

Heneghan Peng websiteGrand Egyptian Museum websiteUniversity of Greenwich new building website
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