Heneghan Peng, winners of a major international competition to design the Grand Museum of Egypt, is making the architectural establishment stand up and notice its ideas. Years of hard slog are behind most apparent overnight successes. When the relatively young Irish architectural practice, Heneghan Peng, won a major international competition to design the Grand Museum of Egypt, the architectural world gasped. Who were these architects who beat off 1,557 entrants from 83 different countries?

