Designs for better building in the countryside

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2004 / February 26 2004: Designs for better building in the countryside

One of the interesting questions arising from the current debate about one-off housing in the countryside is whether it would be quite so fractious if the houses were better designed and carefully sited rather than, in so many cases, simply blots on the landscape. Billy Houlihan, the Cork county architect, has no doubt that people who believe that rural Ireland is being relentlessly suburbanised "wouldn't feel so bad about it if the houses weren't so ugly and grotesque". What he wants to see is more attention to design.

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