Steve Larkin

On 21 June the RIAI announced the 2012 Irish Architecture Awards. Steve Larkin Architects won the Best Emerging Practice.

The award emphasises the importance of strong ideas, innovation and a rigour in thinking. Steve Larkin Architects demonstrates a mature and weighty work. The consideration of proportion, materials and their weight is impressive. A body of work that has real substance and exquisite detailing.

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Soundtrack: Signals Under Tests - Mecca

WG Clark

This house WG Clark designed for himself in Charlottesville in 1994. A pure austere form made of concrete blocks perfectly seated on the plot and protected from the street by the wall of glass blocks. 

”We want our artifacts and habitats, like those of the civilizations we admire, to form an allegiance with the land so strong that our existence is seen as an act of adoration, not an act of ruin.”

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Soundtrack: Scott Kelly - The Passage