Rachel O'Grady and Chris Upson made their move to Belfast before their a competition win for a temporary timber pavilion in the city, Built :East. Upson grew up in County Tyrone; Rachel arrived with new eyes. Married, they are the two founding directors of three-person practice OGU. In the short time since, they have transformed streets, given Belfast city centre a new indoor public space and improved their adopted city with strategic temporary projects. As projects extend into Derry/Londonderry, OGU has been chosen for the Republic of Ireland's Tallinn Architecture Biennale pavilion, its pieced-together greenhouse of reclaimed mahogany-framed windows setting off echoes of the reuse fundamental to decades of gardeners before it was reified by architects.
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