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Thu 10 Oct 2008Irish firm scoops top award for university in Milan
The ultimate accolade of World Building of the Year has been scooped by Grafton Architects for a major building in Italy, writes Frank McDonald
GRAFTON ARCHITECTS, headed by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, surprised and delighted most of their peers in 2002 when they won the competition to design a new building for Bocconi University in Milan. That a relatively small Irish practice could win such a plum job was - and still is - seen as a remarkable achievement.
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