Róisín Heneghan
{{short description|Irish architect and designer}}
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| alma_mater = University College of Dublin
Harvard University.
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| practice = Heneghan Peng Architects
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Róisín Heneghan is an Irish architect and designer. She is co-founder of Heneghan Peng Architects along with her husband Shi-Fu Peng.{{cite news |last1=Shih |first1=Sibyl |last2=Lo |first2=James |title=INTERVIEW/Taiwan-born architect brings life, death into Egyptian museum design |url=https://focustaiwan.tw/culture/202410250010 |access-date=30 October 2024 |agency=Central News Agency |date=25 October 2025}} The company was established in New York in 1999 but was shifted to Dublin in 2001. In 2014, she was shortlisted for Architects' Journal Woman Architect of the Year.{{Cite web |date=2014-01-10 |title=AJ Releases Shortlist for 2014 Woman Architect of the Year |url=https://www.archdaily.com/466068/aj-releases-shortlist-for-2014-woman-architect-of-the-year |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=ArchDaily |language=en-US}} In 2024, she was inducted into Aosdána.
Education
Róisín Heneghan received a Bachelor of Architecture (1987) from the University College of Dublin and holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard University.
Projects
- The Palestinian Museum, Palestine, Under Construction, May 2016{{Cite web |last=designboom |first=cat garcia menocal I. |date=2013-06-26 |title=palestinian museum by heneghan peng 'acts as a communicator' |url=https://www.designboom.com/architecture/palestinian-museum-by-heneghan-peng-acts-as-a-communicator/ |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=designboom {{!}} architecture & design magazine |language=en}}
- Airbnb's European Operations Hub, Dublin, 2014{{Cite web |date=2014-04-01 |title=Airbnb’s European Operations Hub in Dublin / Heneghan Peng Architects |url=https://www.archdaily.com/491468/airbnb-s-european-operations-hub-in-dublin-heneghan-peng-architects |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=ArchDaily |language=en-US}}
- Irish Pavilion, Venice Bienalle, 2011[http://archiseek.com/2012/irish-pavilion-opens-at-venice-biennale/ Irish Pavilion opens at Venice Biennale]
- Giant's Causeway Visitor Centre[http://www.archdaily.com/280775/giants-causeway-visitor-centre-heneghan-peng-architects/ Giants Causeway Visitor Centre / Heneghan & Peng Architects]
- Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Awards
- American Institute of Architects Award, 2001
- [http://archleague.org/2000/05/past-young-architects/ "Young Architects Forum" Architectural League of New York], 1999
- Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Project Awards, 1998
- UCD Alumni Award English & Architecture 2020{{Cite web |title=Róisín Heneghan |url=https://alumni.ucd.ie/awards/awardee/roisin-heneghan/ |access-date=2022-09-03 |website=UCD Alumni Awards |language=en-GB}}
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Category:Alumni of University College Dublin
Category:Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni
Category:Irish women architects