City pad puts on its clad rags

North Dublin City home has doubled in size but cost of elegant interior meant external savings had to be made, writes Rose Martin

CUTTING your cloth to measure can mean many things — however, in the context of this Dublin extension it meant taking a huge jump from sophisticated, but expensive zinc to corrugated cladding more typical of cow sheds. But just look. Isn’t it amazing?

The clients took a bit of risk when the newer material was proposed by David Smith, of Davey and Smith architects, (pictured below) but they took the plunge and added a showstopper to the makeover of their 1930s semi on Dublin’s northside.