Architects of a house made from glass, concrete and stainless steel have rightly scooped an award for lateral thinking. Nestled in the affluent bosom of south Dublin suburbia and almost unnoticed by passers-by is a little chunk of prosaic modernism, the kind that might send a tear of pride welling up in the eyes of le Corbusier or Mies van der Rohe. And as often happens with concrete, glass, wood and stainless-steel boxes, somebody has given it an award. In architecture land, it's always hip to be square.
