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FIVE FOLLY FINALISTS SELECTED FOR BRICK BAY

n the long haul that is the daily graft of architecture, the Brick Bay Folly joins a very few other project types offering a fairly quick turnaround testing of one’s ideas, blessedly free of bureaucratic involvement. The folly competitors implicitly take advantage of these conditions and offer projects that give an insight to the current architectural zeitgeist. The finalists in this year’s competition, for example, all exhibit a commitment to the responsible use of

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