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Sat 08 Aug 2006Judge gives architect 'breathing space' to fix housesA Dublin architect lost his professional practice almost overnight after he had been featured in an RTÉ Prime Time programme, the High Court was told yesterday.David Grant faced imprisonment yesterday for having failed to comply with a January 2005 court order to reinstate four protected Georgian buildings to which he had carried out extensive unauthorised works.