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Tom De Paor
Tomás "Tom" de Paor (; born 1967) is an Irish people, Irish architect and member of Aosdána. Early life De Paor was born in London in 1967 and grew up in County Clare. Career de Paor studied architecture at Technological University Dublin, TU Dublin (1985–88) and in University College Dublin, UCD (1989–91), where he graduated with first class honours. Built works In 1991 he won (with Emma O’Neill) the international competition for the design of a reception building at the Royal Gunpowder Mills at Ballincollig, County Cork, a building which won an AAI award in 1993 and an RIAI award in 1994. Since then his public work has included works to the A13 in London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, Barking and Dagenham in London (1996), the National Sculpture Factory Cork (1998), Comhdháil Naisiúnta na Gaeilge Dublin (1999), Clontarf, Dublin, Clontarf Pumpstation and landscape (2007), Irish Aid Centre Dublin (2008), Druid Theatre Company, Druid Theatre Galway (2009) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
N Cubed, By Tom De Paor
N, or n, is the fourteenth Letter (alphabet), letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is English alphabet#Letter names, ''en'' (pronounced ), plural ''ens''. History One of the most common Egyptian hieroglyphs, hieroglyphs, snake, was used in Egyptian language, Egyptian writing to stand for a sound like the English , because the Egyptian word for "snake" was ''djet''. It is speculated by many that Semitic people working in Egypt adapted hieroglyphics to create the first alphabet, and that they used the same snake symbol to represent N, because their word for "snake" may have begun with that sound. However, the name for the letter in the Phoenician alphabet, Phoenician, Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic alphabet, Arabic alphabets is ''Nun (letter), nun'', which means "fish" in some of these languages. The sound value of the letter was —as in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
