Cork's teen architects draw plans for homes of the future

We talk to the students, teacher and architect involved in the Architects in Schools programme in a Cork second-level school 

Students at work on the Architects in Schools programme during the year in Bishopstown Community College.

Ushered by the Sacred Heart nuns of Mount Anville, we babbled along for 14 years in tightly choreographed tweedy rivers over golden oak parquet, passing under William Dargan’s soaring Gothic arches, in and out of the heavily ornamented Scottish baronial halls. 

I don’t remember taking in the architecture and stately detail. The only thing the 19th-century industrial palace seemed useful for was flying leaps off the eight-foot limestone windowsills to a gym mat when the sisters were enclosed for tea.