Landscape scale projects 'missing' among winners

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2000 / May 04 2000: Landscape scale projects 'missing' among winners

The AAI 2000 Awards exhibition is remarkable for how little it reflects what is really going on in Dublin, or in the rest of Ireland, in this Celtic Tiger period. Tarla MacGabhann, one of the Irish assessors, described most of the 68 entries as "private projects with minimal urban relevance, located within intact parts of Dublin". James Pike, the other Irish architect on the jury, concurred that this year's exhibition is "dominated by small projects". The jury obviously felt that none was so outstanding as to warrant the coveted Downes Medal.

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