Liam O'Connor (architect)

Liam O'Connor (born 1961) is a British architect best known for designing national public memorials in a contemporary classical style.

[5] O'Connor subsequently designed the RAF Bomber Command Memorial, set between Piccadilly and The Green Park in central London, unveiled by Elizabeth II in 2012 during her Diamond Jubilee year.

[6] Liam O'Connor worked alongside Zaha Hadid in the restoration of and extensions to the eighteenth century Magazine Building in Hyde Park Gardens for the creation of a new exhibition facility for the Serpentine Gallery which opened in 2013.

This was a carefully placed extension in brick and Portland stone to the Grade I listed Orangery at the Palace, an eighteenth century work attributed to Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor.

The Armed Forces, Normandy and RAF Bomber Command memorials have won the US based National Sculpture Society Henry Hering Medal for Art & Architecture in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Liam O’Connor, Architect
British Normandy memorial, France
British Normandy memorial, France, The Cloister Garden
The Memorial Gates, Constitution Hill, London Photographer: Nick Carter Photography