Stirling Prize

[MG]

I really like the Canary Wharf Station by Norman Foster - even it Tracey Emin found it fascist and male

[Paul Clerkin]

88 Wood Street is a lovely tranquil office block, why cannot we built similar here in Dublin?


Is the London Eye architecture or product design writ large? Personally I think it is product or industrial design.


Peckham Library by Will Alsop - surely if Alsop had designed the library correctly, he would have allowed for the detritus of library running - nice building though, I enjoyed the colour

[Paul Clerkin]

Not sure about the Walsall Gallery -- particularly monolithic which I wouldnt think would encourage people in the community to get involved.

Sainsbury's in Greenwich would be a good model for supermarkets outside Irish rural towns if they could figure out how to avoid acres of tarmacaded carparks...

[Paul Clerkin]

So what do you think of the winner - Peckham Library and Media Centre?





[This message has been edited by Paul Clerkin (edited 05 November 2000).]

[Jas]

I'm really not sure about this at all - the coloured glass panels look very garish to me.

[JK]

Not so sure about Peckham, although it is an excellent piece of work - I don't like the gable ends and find the 'loggia' at ground level overscaled and vapid.

Personally I'd go for the Sainsburys - such a rotten brief (a big shed basically) of a typology which usually is very difficult to do anything decent with either architecturally or in terms of Urbanism deserves all the credit it can get.

JK