Awards highlight builder-architect relationships

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2005 / November 2

Appropriate design, quality workmanship and sympathetic spaces are all features of the winning buildings in this year's Opus Architecture and Construction Awards (sponsored by Bank of Ireland Corporate Banking). Last year the awards expanded from just an architectural competition, to include contractors "'to acknowledge the symbiotic relationship between architecture and construction". A good relationship between the two disciplines is certainly helpful in the realisation of a good building, not forgetting the third, crucial element, of the client. And, let's be inclusive here, how about engineers too?

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