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Thu 10 Oct 2009Recession gives designers the space to be creative
The recession is generating a ferment of design activity and ideas, writes FRANK MCDONALD, Environment Editor
DUBLIN CITY architect Ali Grehan is delighted by the ideas, initiative, voluntary effort and sheer energy that’s emerging as a result of the recession. It proves, if proof were needed, that we have more time to think now that the frenetic days of the boom are well and truly over – just as we did in the bleak 1980s.
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