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Building for a Thousand Years
The architect Rún Ó Síoda designs cathedrals, sea walls and tombs — anything that must outlast its makers.
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Most buildings are designed to be paid off, not to endure. Rún Ó Síoda works the other way around. ‘I ask one question first,’ she says. ‘Who repairs this in four hundred years, and what will they curse me for?’
It would be neat to end on a verdict. Life, and this subject, decline to cooperate, and we have let them.
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