Gró.Works is an architecture practice with a focus on crafted, thoughtful and delightful spaces. Our interests lie in complex but practical design, in solutions born out of collaboration with makers and in the serendipity of the unexpected. We endeavour to create work that is enriched by a tension between the ambition of the studio environment and the tradition of the construction site.
We design and make in a new purpose-built space in Ranelagh, at the urban periphery of Dublin City, on the threshold of big and small – a position we like to inhabit in the way we work and the way we think. Gró.Works is led by Donal Groarke and Ultan Ó Conchubhair.
We make optimistic and ambitious architecture.
Donal Groarke
Partner
MRIAI 16133
donal@gró.works
Ultan Ó Conchubhair
Partner
MRIAI 19281
ultan@gró.works
Studio
Seán Byrne
Paul Kennedy
Kate Masquellier
Joseph Spiers
Past
Andrew Gavrilas
Máirtín D'Alton
Waleed Qoqandi
Katie Barry
Kaetlin Wallace
Recognition
RIAI Awards 2024
13a Portobello – Selected for 2024 Exhibition List
AAI Site Visit Series 2024
'Angle Circle Square' – Mews Dwelling tour for members of the Architectural Association of Ireland.
Building and Architect of the Year Awards 2024
13a Portobello – House of the Year Finalist
20a Mountpleasant – Small Office of the Year Finalist
Gró.Works – Rising Star in Architecture Finalist
Open House Europe: Building Futures Together
13a Portobello featured in Exhibition of Visual Stories
Photography by Thomas Walorski
Open House Dublin 2023
20a Mountpleasant & 13a Portobello
Featured in festival programme
Publication
Grand Designs Magazine May 2024
'10 City Homes on Awkward Sites'
Jayne Dowle
Dezeen – 15 January 2023
'"Robust and utilitarian" materials define infill home'
Jon Astbury
Archdaily – 2 December 2023
13a Portobello featured on front page of Archdaily
Architecture Ireland 332
AAI + Ailtireachtúil 5 October 2023
Invited review of AAI Irish Language event
Exhibition & Competitions
A Pavilion for Limerick Competition 2022
Flying Follies – Ted Russell Park
Entry selected and exhibited amongst final shortlist of 6 proposals
Biennale Architectura 2018 ‘Freespace’
Close Encounter: Meetings with Remarkable Buildings & Irish Tour 2019
Assistant to Mary Laheen & Aoibheann Ní Mhearáin
UCD Future Campus Competition 2018
Feasibility Study commisioned by UCD prior to competition announcement
Drawings exhibited at UCD Festival 2017
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