YOU could be forgiven for thinking you’d walked on to a movie set — say, the Great Gatsby — when you pull up at the entrance to the Capella Castlemartyr Resort: it is a set-dressed timepiece and package, aimed at the wealthy and those seeking to unwind, and prepared to pay for the privileges.

IT was honours even for the four provinces last night at the RIAI’s 2006 Irish Architecture Awards when Environment Minister Dick Roche presented the four main prizes to projects in Cork, Galway, Belfast and Kildare.

TWO years' work, renovations and extension, and three happy years residence since, have gone into Vondel, a detached home on the Blackrock Road in Cork.

HERE’S an on-going quiet revolution off Cork city’s Douglas Street, with millions of euro flowing in property investment.

A FORMER convent and school building overlooking Kinsale town in Cork may be in line for conversion to over 200 new houses and apartments.