Architecture's golden couple shaping spaces across the world

Their paths first crossed at a UCD disco. They've gone on to win architecture’s top prizes. Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey of O’Donnell + Tuomey talk to Home editor Eve Kelliher 

Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey's work on a house in Cork's Sunday's Well. Picture: Jed Niezgoda

Enrolling as an architecture student immediately changed the way a teenage Sheila O’Donnell viewed the world.

She didn’t know it right then, but it was also about shape her life’s course — as well as that of one of her classmates.