Everything’s coming up contemporary

DEVOTEES of contemporary house design usually have to build their own one-off homes. Now, though, a niche woodland scheme near Cork city offers modern ready-mades.

Nineteen detached four-bed homes in the mature tree setting at Woodville House in Glanmire in Cork make this development stand out from the norm.

The houses will have features like glazed corner walls with exposed C-section steel beams, treated cedar cladding, ‘standing seam’ zinc roofs, and very careful site selection for aspect, orientation and privacy.