Thinking outside the glass box in a folding Cork city home

Property Editor Tommy Barker revisits Folding House in Cork city’s leafy Mardyke

The Folding House. Pictures: Denis Scannell

THERE has been quite a common gripe about much of today’s ‘contemporary’ design, that it’s all glass, and that it’s all repetitive, square or rectangle box shapes.

Refreshingly, here’s a thoroughly modern and utterly urban house that doesn’t match that complaint.