'Even if it's Victoria Beckham, it's Victoria Beckham on a good day'

The Irish Times

The gut reaction of assessor Angela Rolfe, assistant principal architect with the Office of Public Works, to the closest contender for the Downes Medal - a glittering bronze-clad extension to a Victorian house on Palmerston Road, in Rathmines, by Boyd Cody Architects - was to describe it as "a bespoke Rolls Royce . . . that it is bordering on the bling! You are straying into Victoria Beckham territory, as far as I'm concerned."

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