90236051(The Temple Bar umbrellas under construction in 2011)

Seán Harrington Architects have won The Chicago Athenaeum’s International Architecture Award 2013 for the umbrellas at Meeting House Square, Temple Bar. Dublin.

What do we want.

More giant brollies everywhere.

Seán Harrington Architects wins Chicago Athenaeum Award 2013 (IrishArchitectureFoundation)

Thanks Spaghetti Hoop

paint1

paint2With some difficulty, in fairness.

Eoin Kernan writes:

Yesterday in Dublin Port, the boys decided to do a spot of painting on [Cruise ship]  Silver Cloud. I was taking bets on how long it would take for one of them to fall in… Sadly I didn’t have to pay out…

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