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THIS WEEK’S gloomy Tuesday was brightened for Grafton Architects (pictured below) when an e-mail swooshed in telling them that they had been given International Fellowships of the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects).

“We were honoured and thrilled,” says Yvonne Farrell of Grafton Architects who, along with her partner Shelley McNamara (both on front right of the picture), were given the life-long fellowships, which honour people “who have made a major contribution to the world of architecture, wherever in the world they practice”.