In Tom Spalding’s immaculately researched and well-illustrated account of a neglected history, we find a built environment that is fearsome, often pioneering and mostly enduring. The stories of Cork’s department stores, housing, Catholic churches and convents, offices, schools, hospitals and more —as well as the often-forgotten men and women who designed and commissioned them— are generously and conscientiously recounted through extensive archival sources. Full of colour and social interest, Designed For Life moves beyond architectural history, to present an alternative portrait of Cork, as it developed and spread from 1900 through the twentieth century.’
Join Tom Spalding on this uniqe and fascinating walk through the city of Cork, that was Designed for Life. Places Limited.
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