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https://alumni.ucd.ie/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/1-RIBA-Presidents-Day1-120220-26489-nickstrugnell.com_.jpg1300867Dublin-based firm Grafton Architects, co-founded by UCD Architecture alumni, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, was named the 2020 recipient of the RIBA Royal Gold Medal. On Wednesday, February 12 2020, the evening before the medal presentation, Farrell and McNamara delivered a public lecture at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) to mark the occasion....