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For many, the idea of an Irish vernacular architecture conjures images of John Hinde-esque stone cottages, preferably thatched, and with a picturesque donkey or two outside.

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More recently the landscape has become peppered with dormer bungalows that seem somehow more suburban than rural. Completed in 2013, Brigid Keane’s Inis Óirr house, which has just been showcased at the BAU building and architecture fair in Munich, is an excellent example of what a new generation of architecture might look like.The two-storey, three-bedroomed house is at home in the wild and dramatic landscape of its west of Ireland setting, but it also features innovations in its structure and design......Continue Reading

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