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City garage motors into first place
By Tommy Baker

The Examiner (Property Section), November 20, 1999

ONE of the most humdrum building projects likely to be done in a building make over, the garage conversion has scooped a national architecture award.

Often, the garage conversion project is considered so mundane it is simply handed over to a builder, who simply replaces the garage door with a window, puts in a radiator, door and light, and the job oxo.

The new Dublin partnership Box Architecture put more thought and work into a design for a conversion job at Dublin home, and as a result won the Opus Building of the Year Award at the recent Plan Expo for their £20,000 extension.

It was designed by Bolton Street graduates of Box Architecture, and was a conversion of an existing garage space alongside a detached 1950s Dublin estate house.

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