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Wed 05 May 2004Changed industrial school to represent IrelandThe transformation of the once-notorious industrial school in Letterfrack, Co Galway, into a thriving community-based furniture college is to to be Ireland's entry at the Venice Biennale this autumn.The project by multiple award-winning architects O'Donnell and Tuomey, shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Architecture last year, was selected because it fits the theme of this year's architecture biennale, "Metamorphoses".