[1] The practice won the inaugural RIBA International Prize in 2016 for their Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología building in Lima, Peru,[2] and was awarded the 2020 Royal Gold Medal.

Their Bocconi University project in Milan, which won the World Building of the Year Award in 2008, has been widely acclaimed and exhibited.

[6] Farrell has taught at University College Dublin since 1976 and has been a visiting professor at the Architecture Academy in Mendrisio, Switzerland, since 2008.

She held the Kenzo Tange chair at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2010 and currently teaches at the EPFL in Lausanne.

She has lectured widely in European and American schools of architecture, including Oslo, Stockholm, Berlage, Yale, Buffalo, St.Louis, Kansas City and Tampa.