See Top Entries from an Architecture Competition to Design a W. B. Yeats–inspired Structure

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In honor of W. B. Yeats's upcoming 150th birthday, an international design competition called for interpretations of his poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree." The winning submission, Square Moon by shindesignworks, will be temporarily installed on the isle in Ireland's Lough Gill this June. By day, the installation features a simple aluminum frame, but by night it is transformed into a glowing square via a rolling screen and LED lights.

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Time[scape]lab from Tennessee submitted plans for a small cabin like the one in Yeats's poem: "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, / And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made."

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London-based Samuel Little conceptualized a cabin for Yeats that can be construed as either a frame of a new structure or a ruin of an old one.

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Danish firm Architecture Practice + Experimentation (AP+E) submitted a design of floating reflective discs that extend from a mainland jetty to Innisfree.

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Nós Workshop of Dublin was another competition finalist. Its design involves a wood structure on the mainland and another on the island itself.