Meet the Cork man putting Dublin architecture on the map

Cities are 'intense crucibles of people's stories',  according to Emmett Scanlon, director of the Irish Architecture Foundation

Glentora, Brennan Furlong Architects, part of Open House Dublin, which runs for nine days from October 7.

Childhood evenings devoted to creating new worlds and a curiosity about people and their stories inspired Cork man Emmett Scanlon to become an architect.

Now, as the newly appointed director of the Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF), Emmett is drawing up plans to give Dublin an opportunity to reimagine itself and plot its next chapters.