The Irish Times

Back in the bleak, hopeless days of the late 1980s, 13 relatively young architects came together to form Group 91. They had lots of ideas but very little work. Famously, one of them, Paul Keogh, had got a special mention in the 1988 Architectural Association of Ireland awards for a postmodern Jersey-cow milking parlour at Dublin Zoo. Now his firm, Paul Keogh Architects, is much better known as the designer of an elegant 32-storey residential tower planned for a site sandwiched between Heuston Station and Royal Hospital Kilmainham, in Dublin. Times have changed indeed, and the surviving architectural practices of Group 91 are swamped with work. Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey have won numerous awards and international prize nominations, for projects such as the Furniture College in Letterfrack, Co Galway; Ranelagh Multidenominational School; and the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, at University College Cork. Now they're doing a new Photographers' Gallery in London and a John Lewis department store in Sheffield.