RIBA has named Dublin-based Grafton Architects as the recipients of the 2020 Royal Gold Medal, in recognition of the practice’s significant influence on the profession’s advancement.

Grafton founders Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara follow in the footsteps of 2019 winner Nicholas Grimshaw in being granted the UK’s highest honour for architecture. Earlier recipients include Neave Brown, Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright and original 1848 laureate Charles Robert Cockerell.

RIBA president Alan Jones said Grafton Architects’ directors had taught and lectured at some of the world’s most celebrated universities, and had exhibited their work and curated exhibitions globally – including last year’s Venice Architecture Biennale.

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