Heneghan Peng are not well known for their built work. Instead the practice is more widely acknowledged for its celebrated victory in the 2003 Grand Egyptian Museum competition (GEM) that brought it out of obscurity and into international prominence (AR August 2003). With subsequent significant victories in competitions for Carlisle Pier in 2004 and Giant's Causeway in 2005, there is evidence that the clarity of its design strategies has great appeal to competition jurors. Reputations, however, are rarely sustained on competition victories alone, and therefore it is particularly interesting to consider Heneghan Peng Architects' first significant building, the Kildare Civic Offices in Naas. A building that unsurprisingly came from an impressive competition win in 2000.
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