Róisín Heneghan is co-founder, with Shih-Fu Peng, of heneghan peng architects (hparc), a landscape, urban planning, and architecture practice with offices in Dublin and Berlin. In 2003, when the practice was a team of four, hparc won the international competition for the Grand Egyptian Museum, triumphing over 1,556 other entries.

Now, more than three decades after plans for the project were first announced—enduring a storm of political and economic crises—the highly anticipated museum is complete, with its final gallery opening to the public in November 2025. Located on a site adjacent to the Giza archeological complex, the vast museum houses more than 100,000 artifacts, thousands of which are on display for the first time. Radiating out toward the pyramids, the building guides visitors on a chronological route from the contemporary world to the land of the pharaohs, standing as a bridge between past and present.