Irish architects scoop global award for UTEC university building in Peru

Grafton Architects has won the Royal Institute of British Architect’s (RIBA) International Prize for its UTEC university building in Lima, Peru.

Led by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, Grafton has won the first ever global architecture prize for new public architecture from a shortlist that included Zaha Hadid Architects and David Chipperfield.

The winning building, Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC), and described as a “Brutalist temple to engineering”, was picked from a category that included six world-class cultural buildings from across five continents.