Not in their house

There was an obituary for Irish architect Sam Stephenson in yesterday's Times (UK). We had obliquely noted his death here. The obit slyly observes that most of his buildings are commercial and not residential, because the same political patrons who facilitated his Modernist/Brutalist projects for commercial buildings in Dublin preferred to live in traditional country mansions, with a resulting lack of such design commissions. Also odd, but not noted in the obit, is that the same elite class that showed such disdain for preserving Dublin now eagerly takes parts in consortiums buying trophy properties in London and Paris.