'Anywhere architecture' of the future lauded

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2000 / March 07 2000: 'Anywhere architecture' of the future lauded

Given the mountain that the Spencer Dock developers must climb if they are to have any chance of winning, it seemed yesterday that they had eschewed crampons in favour of setting up a virtual gun battery of slide projectors to blast away the remaining obstacles. With Bertie Ahern playing an offstage role as architecture critic, in his ostensibly unguarded dismissal of their project as "a monstrosity" - itself an unprecedented intervention by a serving Taoiseach in a live planning appeal - they brought in an established critic to laud it.

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