Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects

A desire to redefine the ways architecture can contribute to truly progressive causes has always been a hallmark of the work of Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects. Each project seeks to enhance the urban fabric, to inspire all those who enter or visit to carefully consider the ways the built environment can truly enhance civic engagement or reflect the authentic culture or history of a site. From transforming unloved parcels of land that may seem more fit for traffic than residents in Los Angeles and Detroit to intensely creative and imminently livable housing complexes for students, tech workers, and underserved populations such as veterans and those transitioning out of houselessness, to conjuring glamorous ways to harness light in the darkest of Nordic days for the Guggenheim Helsinki and the Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark, this firm has time and again proved its ability to design intelligently and with a deeply embedded social conscience and unfailing commitment to context. Whil