A2 Architects was established by Peter Carroll and Caomhán Murphy in 2005 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.
The practice is founded on a shared interest in both the continuing development of architectural practice as well as the unchanging, essential nature of architecture. A constant excitement and spirit in architecture is sought out, be it in a modest house or in the realm of spaces found in a school.
In 2011 they were shortlisted and subsequently won the international design competition for the new Tullamore Community Arts Centre.
In 2009 they received an RIAI Irish Architecture Award and a Special Mention in the Architectural Association of Ireland Awards for the new French School at 'Eurocampus' Dublin. In 2008 they received an AAI Award and an RIAI Irish Architecture Award for a residential project entitled 'One up, One down, One deep' in Portobello, Dublin. In 2007 they received a Special Mention for 'Brick Thickness' in the Architectural Association of Ireland Awards.
Along with several Irish practices A2 represented Ireland at the inaugural Lisbon Architecture Triennale in Portugal in 2007 with four residential projects and were participants in the 'Four under forty' exhibition and book about emerging Dublin-based practices.
The practice was appointed as architects for the new French School on the Eurocampus in south Dublin in 2006. The new school was officially opened by the French and German Ambassadors to Ireland on the anniversary of the signing of the Franco German Élysée Treaty on 22 January 2009.
Since graduating from University College Dublin in 1995, both partners have gained extensive Irish and international experience on a broad range of building types and sizes.
