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Peat briquette pavilion wins architectural award

Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2001 / April 10 2001: Peat briquette pavilion wins architectural award

The Irish Pavilion at last year's Venice Biennale - a building that no longer exists - has won an Architectural Association of Ireland award for excellence in design for the Dublin architect, Mr Tom de Paor. The pavilion, evocative of the Gallarus Oratory in Co Kerry and titled N[s3]RO], was constructed from bales of peat briquettes. It was officially opened at the Arsenale in Venice last May and demolished at the end of July. Not for the first time, Dublin's Temple Bar area has won awards, one for the new Project Arts Centre, designed by Shay Cleary Architects, and the other for the Wooden Building, by de Blacam and Meagher.

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