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Further to the Construction Industry Federation’s call for an increase in house prices.

John Gallen writes:

“I contacted them [CIF] via Twitter. I wanted to know why they saw it that “house prices need to increase in order for the building of residential properties to become more cost effective”.
The basic response is that although land has come down since the boom years in varying degrees other costs have not. I asked for detail of these other costs. I got this breakdown of how much to build a typical 3 Bed Semi-d. It comes in at €197k just to build it. Excluding VAT.”

Earlier: The Only Way Is Up

The Cost Of Constructing A 3 Bed Semi Detached House (CIF)

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A Rubik’s Cube style installation on the facade of the Ars Electronica building in Linz. Shot by shot with Michaela Lakova. and created by Javier Loret who sez of it:

…the player interacts with the specially designed interface-cube. The interface-cube holds electronic components to keep track of rotation and orientation. This data is sent via Bluetooth to a computer that runs the Puzzle Facade designed software. This software changes the lights and color of the large-scale Ars Electronica’s media facade in correlation to the handheld interface-cube. Due to the nature of this building and its surroundings, the player is only able to see two sides at the same time. This factor increases the difficulty of solving the puzzle, but as the player is able to rotate and flip the interface-cube, it is not a blocking factor.

Music: Photonic Belt by Lenticular Clouds

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Out of storage after three years, slightly discoloured from age (which quite suits it) and on view at the newly-refurbished Ballyfermot Library, Ballyfermot Road, Dublin.

They’ve even got little LEGO brown envelopes.

Aw.

(Thanks Paul Fusco)


The 123 year-old, 6200 tonne, 80 metre long MFO building in Zurich was shifted down the road on a series of carriages to make way for a new railway line last summer.

A glacial 60m journey captured in timelapse by Patrick Gautschy.

Massive Zurich Building completes 19 hour trip (SwissInfo)

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For sale posters just gone up on the windows of the former National Irish Bank College Green, Dublin 2 branch.

Clearly visible from Bank of Ireland across the road, which could move here and vacate the old Irish Parliament building for €4 million.

(Pix: Oisin)