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Sat 08 Aug 2010Architects' manuscripts as 'magnificent' as those produced by medieval monks
MINISTER FOR Culture Mary Hanafin yesterday proclaimed an 18th-century oratory as “a little piece of Ireland in Venice”, at least for the duration of thisyear’s international architecture biennale.
The oratory of San Gallo, which commemorates the early medieval Irish saint St Gall, is on a small camponear the Piazza San Marco. The building is now filled with stacks of paper illustrating the work of multiple-award-winning architects de Blacam and Meagher.
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