Modern two-storey gem with daring design stands out from the crowd

THE design of 21A in Cork’s Sunday’s Well is very much cast against type.

There’s a certain orthodoxy and period style in this salubrious inner suburb, just a short uphill walk from the city centre. Houses here, with Grand Circle views over UCC, public parks and sports amenities and greenery, are generally 19th century, veering from Georgian to Victorian, with some latter day early 1900s examples of architecture too.

Completely of its own time though is 21A, a modernist home built in the early 2000s, in a certain internationalist style, a sort of updating of a 1930s “white box/cube” prototype.