Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey Awarded Britain's Highest Architecture Prize

The Irish architects were awarded the Royal Institute of British Architect's Royal Gold Medal for lifetime achievements in architecture.

The U.K.'s professional architecture association, the Royal Institute of British Architects, has named Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey of the Dublin-based firm O'Donnell + Tuomey as the recipients of the 2015 Royal Gold Medal, the organization's prestigious lifetime achievement award. This year's recipients are notable on a couple fronts. Just two other husband-and-wife duos have received the prize previously. Born in 1953 and 1954, respectively, O'Donnell and Tuorney are also some of the youngest recipients ever. (Last year's prize went to 87-year-old architecture critic Joseph Rykwert.)
No woman has yet won the Royal Gold Medal without an accompanying male partner.

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