RIAI Public Choice Award

[wearnicehats]

4 days to go on this but, is it just me, or can you vote as many times as you want?

http://www.irisharchitectureawards.ie/public-choice-2010

[Paul Clerkin]

seems to allow multiple voting ok

[wearnicehats]

seems to allow multiple voting ok

so this award will go to the company with the biggest facebook page / extended family and friends then so

[Paul Clerkin]

yeah

[Mike Kavanagh]

Vote Early and Often!

Been canvassed by two parties already - one with a very peripheral role in a particular candidate project.
Flattered - but will not be guided - only bought!

[wearnicehats]

I am available for hire at 1 stout per vote

[wearnicehats]

According to Morning Ireland this was won by the Criminal Courts with 20% of the vote

[gunter]

Seems to allow multiple voting

so this award will go to the company with the biggest facebook page / extended family and friends then so

are you suggesting that the award for the biggest facebook page / extended family and friends . . . goes to Henry J Lyons and Associates?

[wearnicehats]

are you suggesting that the award for the biggest facebook page / extended family and friends . . . goes to Henry J Lyons and Associates?

apparently you couldn't vote as many times as you want. Mind you, with 55 buildings on the list, to get 1800 of the 9000 votes is pretty good. I'm not really surprised because, assuming some members of the public voted, they are more likely to vote for Dublin's most impressive (IMO) new public building rather than Boyd Cody's latest stick-on box

[gunter]

I thought the Fatima redevelopment might have been in with a shout, but unfortunately I forgot to vote for it.


P.S. was the Boyd Cody project the one where the kitchen extension looked like a microwave oven?

[wearnicehats]

I thought the Fatima redevelopment might have been in with a shout, but unfortunately I forgot to vote for it.


P.S. was the Boyd Cody project the one where the kitchen extension looked like a microwave oven?

tut tut man - I think you'll find it's a "tube"

I think to even it out there should be a separate category for "best extension that looks like a microwave oven that someone may have passed while looking for a lost cat"

Oh wait - there already is - It's called the AAI awards

[CologneMike]

A very elegant Criminal Court House and in my opinion its design aptly reflects the justice system itself!

The Courts Service said the Criminal Courts of Justice has the potential to hear up to 200,000 cases per year.

In context that’s one million cases over a five year period similar to the population of our capital city.

With that type of system work load and its cylindrical constructional form, it invokes in me a fantasy of a hollow building containing one mega revolving door.

[gunter]

I like the muted colours and some of the composition at the back, but that off-set, cog-wheel, secondary glazing drives me mad, I just want it to start rotating and bore itself into the earth.

. . . it's probably not goin' to happen though is it?

[Tuborg]

Speaking of kitchen appliances. It kinda looks like a giant food blender in this shot.

[henno]

A very elegant Criminal Court House and in my opinion its design aptly reflects the justice system itself!

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nice post

[Cathal Dunne]

That's a great result for a great building. It is such a large and imperious building and is a fine addition to our cityscape. The secondary glazing actually adds to the building as it reflects the sky and therefore introduces a dynamic aspect to the design.

[gunter]

''it reflects the sky''

. . . but if I wanted to see the sky, could I not just look at the sky?

[missarchi]

or

[wearnicehats]

annnnyyyywaaaaaaaay:

full list of RIAI winners here:

http://www.irisharchitectureawards.ie/index.php/annual-awards/2010

gunter - your microwave seems to have won "best extension"

[reddy]

gunter - your microwave seems to have won "best extension"

Thats hard to believe alright. There were some beautiful extension projects in the list.

[TxT]

They need to get a decent carpet fitter into that microwave judging by picture 06

Horrible.

[hutton]

it invokes in me a fantasy of a hollow building containing one mega revolving door.

Lol

An impressive, iconic, eye-catching building indeed.

But would it win planning awards?

I have heard various complaints from users of the building regarding the lack of adequate transport / parking and storage provision - though the same parties praised the look, finish, and actual proportions within.

However I can't find an EIA, even though its within the curtilage of Phoenix Park, a National Monument.

Moreover if one glances through the files, one finds a note from within DCC's architectural conservation section that expresses reservations that the scheme would disrupt the relationship between the Royal Hospital Kilmainham and the Wellington Memorial.

Happily such truculent concerns didn't get in the way of the scheme progressing, and with the Department of Justice able to grant itself planning consent, all proceeded apace.

Also of trivia interest is the now bust Walsh Maguire Contractors of Drumcondra, coincidentally contributers to Bertie, got the gig.

Finally, has anyone got a figure of what the end cost actually was? I have heard €300 million, but this just can't be right...