From the Pyramids to the Giant's Causeway

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2005 / October 12

Winning Entry

Heneghan Peng Architects took everyone by surprise in 2003 when it beat more than 1,500 other entrants from 83 countries to carry off the prized commission to design the Grand Egyptian Museum at the Pyramids of Giza. So it was no real surprise yesterday when Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain announced that the Dublin-based practice had won another international competition for a much more modest project - a new visitor centre at the Giant's Causeway in Co Antrim. Like its much more ambitious project on the outskirts of Cairo, the visitor centre is slotted into the landscape at some distance from the main attraction, in deference to the Causeway which shares this much with the Pyramids - both are Unesco World Heritage Sites.

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