http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/shifting+ground IrishCentral shifting ground en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/irish-isles-designs-on-venetian-isles-168906416.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/irish-isles-designs-on-venetian-isles-168906416.html Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:47:05 PDT
Regular as the tides, another cultural acqua alta is washing over Venice now in the form of the Biennale Architetttura 2012 The theme this time is "Common Ground" and joining the many international firms exploring that theme in this cosmopolitan design petri dish are four from IrelandThe country's official representative is the Dublin-based heneghan peng (no caps--it's a design thing), a firm already on global design map with such projects as bridge at the London Olympics, Giants Causeway Visitor Center in County Antrim, Northern Ireland and new museum at the Pyramids in Egypt"Shifting Ground" photos by Marie Louise HalpennyIn "Shifting Ground" the firm has created a site-specific sculptural exploration in the languages of architects, with references to materials, balance, numbers, projective geometry, and to the ebb and flow of Venice's tides READ MORE ]]>