The Irish Times

The winning scheme for Carlisle Pier will change perceptions of the great harbour. Success breeds success, as the old adage says, and that's as true in architecture as in anything else. Just ask Roisín Heneghan and Shih-Fu Peng, whose design for the old Carlisle Pier in Dún Laoghaire emerged triumphant this week. Nine months ago, Dublin-based heneghan.peng.architects (as they call their practice) stunned the architectural world - and themselves - by beating more than 1,500 entrants from 83 countries in an international competition for the Grand Egyptian Museum at the pyramids of Giza.