Carmody Groarke is a London-based architectural studio established by Kevin Carmody and Andrew Groarke in 2006. A strong emphasis is given to a critical design process within the studio, we resist predetermining architectural solutions to a client's brief prior to a thorough investigation of each project's unique situation.

Our process creates buildings and spaces that maintain a close synthesis between the context of the project and the client's requirements. As a result of this process-led work and our abilities to undertake projects of highly varied typologies, the studio is pursuing a diverse range of projects in the UK and abroad for private, commercial and public sector clients.

In 2007 Carmody Groarke were recipients of the Building Design Young Architect of the Year Award (YAYA). and in 2010 their Studio East Dining project was winner of the globally prestigious Emerging Architecture Award by The Architectural Review.

The Architecture Foundation, London, UK
Argent, London
The Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Brioni, Rome, Italy
Bistrotheque, London, UK
British Land, London, UK
British Council, UK
The Crafts Council, London, UK
Department of Culture Media and Sport, London, UK
The Design Museum, London, UK
Discover Children's Story Telling Centre, London, UK
Economic Development Corporation New York, US
Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Antony Gormley, London, UK
Julian Opie, London, UK
Lakeland Arts Trust, UK
Louise Blouin Foundation, London, UK
Natural History Museum, London, UK
New London Architecture, London, UK
PEER Gallery, London, UK
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London, UK
Royal Institute of British Architects, London, UK
The Royal Parks, London, UK
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Wallpaper*, London, UK
The Wellcome Trust
Workspace Group, London, UK

2012

Joint winner of the 2012 Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture for The Indian Ocean Tsunami Memorial
Winner of an invited competition to design the new London headquarters for the Contemporary Art Society.
Commendation in the 2012 Architecture Prize at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition for the Windermere Steamboat Museum model.
Winner of an invited competition to design a new permanent gallery for the Royal Institute of British Architects at their Portland Place Headquaters, London.
Commendation at the Architects' Journal Small Projects Award for Antony Gormley's new-build artist workshop.

2011

Winner in open International RIBA Competition for the Windermere Steamboat Museum in the Lake District.
"Yellow Pencil" at the D&AD Awards in Spatial Design for Studio East Dining Pavilion.
"Silver Pencil" at the D&AD Awards in Exhibition Design for The Surreal House at The Barbican Art Gallery.
Shortlisted in open International RIBA Competition with Kennedy Fitzgerald Architects for the new £12M new-build Belfast Expo.
Discover Story Telling Centre wins a Museums & Heritage Award for Design Excellence.

2010

Studio East selected for 2010 Observer Top Ten Buildings of the Year
Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Award Winner 2010 (Studio East Dining)
Selected for Architectural Record "Vanguard Issue" (Top ten emerging global practices)
Nomination for The 2010 Stephen Lawrence Prize (7 July Memorial)
Two nominations for the RIBA CABE Public Space Award ( 7 July Memorial and Regents Place Pavilion)

2013

Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin - "Change in Economy and Arts" - Lecture
Kent School of Architecture - Lecture
Musée d'Art Moderne - "Linder Femme / Objet"

2012

Barbican Art Gallery - "Everything Was Moving"
Design Museum - "Digital Crystals"
V&A Museum - Carmody Groarke in discussion with Lucy Bullivant
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition - Commendation in the Architecture Prize for the Windermere Steamboat Museum model
Architecture Centre - "Scale and Ambition: AJ Small Projects" Gormley Studio exhibited, Bristol
The Lakeland Arts Trust - Public lecture Kendal, Lake District
Barbican Art Gallery - "Bauhaus: Art as Life" major retrospective exhibition
"Galápagos" touring exhibition - Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool and The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Thailand Creative & Design Centre - "Everything Forever Now" British Council exhibition
National Architecture Conference - "Experience" lecture, Brisbane
Salone Internazionale Del Mobile - Installation at Rinascente, Milan
Camberwell College of Arts - "Into the Fold" discussion about exhibition design
Cambridge University Department of Architecture - Lecture
Sheffield University School of Architecture - Lecture

2011

The Louise Blouin Foundation - "Modern Painters present The October Issue Exhibition", London
The Victoria and Albert Museum - "Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–1990" major retrospective exhibition
"Block Party" touring exhibition for the Crafts Council - Design Junction, Victoria House, London
Somerset House - Masters of Italian Fashion" exhibition, London
The London College of Fashion - "Yohji Yamamoto at Work" exhibition
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition - Studio East Dining exhibited
The Garden Museum - "The Gardens of Tom Stuart Smith" exhibition, London
University of Canberra School of Architecture - Lecture
The Wellcome Trust - "DIRT- The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life" exhibition, London

2010

Design Museum - "Drawing Fashion" exhibition, London
Barbican Art Gallery - "The Surreal House" exhibition, London
Rome Tre University - Lecture

2013

Local Engagement + British Architects, Architecture + Urbanism (A+U), February issue 509 13:02, 1.2.13

2012

The pop-up buildings that leave a legacy, Tim Walker, The Independent, 1.10.12
Barometer: Design, Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times, 20.7.2012
Station to Station, Edwin Heathcote, Wallpaper*, 1.7.12
Best Practices, Brian Carter, Azure, 1.6.12
Bauhaus: Art as Life, Barbican, review, Ellis Woodman, The Telegraph, 4.5.12
Crujías dislocadas, Arquitectura Viva, 4.4.12
Standing Tall Against The Odds, Natalia Rachlin, Wall Street Journal, 13.4.2012
A Temp Job, Inês Revés, Frame, 1.3.12

2011

Wallpaper* 150, Wallpaper*, 1.9.11
Indian Ocean Tsunami Memorial - review, Rowan Moore, The Observer, 10.7.11

2010

Emerging Architecture, Architectural Review, 1.12.10
London Underground | Designers to Watch, Deyan Sudjic, New York Times, 30.12.10
The best architecture of 2010, Rowan Moore, The Observer, 12.12.10
Body of Work, Edwin Heathcote, MONUMENT magazine, 1.12.10
Emerging Architecture, Architectural Review, 1.12.10
Architecture 10: RIBA Buildings of the Year, Tony Chapman, Merrel, 1.12.10
Studio East Dining by Carmody Groarke, Will Hunter, Architecture Review
Design Vanguard, Architectural Record, 1.11.10
The Young Turks Building a New Future, Tom Dyckhoff, The Times, 4.10.10
Scaffolding and Steamed Sea Bass, Edwin Heathcote, The Financial Times, 26.7.10
Studio East Dining, Rowan Moore, The Observer, 20.6.10
Welcome to the mad house: A monument to the world of the surreal, Tom Lubbock, The Independent, 14.6.10

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