When architects meet their makers

LAST SEPTEMBER, I WENT TO THE annual Robert Maxwell Lecture given at the Athenaeum under the auspices of the Architecture Club. It was by Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey, Irish architects not as well-known as they deserve to be on the English side of the Irish Sea, even though they won the RIBA Gold Medal in 2015. They have been jointly responsible with Allies and Morrison for the masterplan of the cultural buildings along the waterfront of Olympic Park, have themselves designed the new theatre for Sadler’s Wells (Sadler’s Wells East) and V&A East in the same sequence, and were responsible for the brick-built Saw Swee Hock Student Centre at the LSE, shortlisted for the Stirling Prize in 2014. Tuomey has also recently published a beautifully written short memoir of…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2025

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