Irish architect heads for the UK

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This month, Ireland's star architectural duo, Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey, have established an impressive double bridgehead with their first two projects in the UK. On behalf of their Dublin-based practice, O'Donnell + Tuomey, the pair have won, by competitive interview, the commission to design the flagship 24,000 m~2 John Lewis department store in Hammerson's ambitious 80,000 m~2 New Retail Quarter for Sheffield. It followed quickly on from the practice's appointment to design the £3.5m Photographers' Gallery in London's Soho, also the result of a competitive interview.