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Thu 11 Nov 2006Punctuating Portlaoise with pointed designsA young architecture practice which has set up in the midlands is carving a niche for itself in angular glass and concrete designs, writes Emma CullinanNAVIGATORS will find Portlaoise at 53 degrees north and west seven and an architectural practice that has borrowed its name from these map references is helping to put the town on the map in its own way.