Libeskind in Ireland
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Interesting but very critical comments today from Sean Griffiths in Building Design and Bill Mitchell in the RIBA Journal and also in archeire “world architecture” concerning the quality of otherwise of Libeskind’s work.
Which reminds me that he had a proposal for Dun Loaghaire which seemed to be being well received in the forum and indeed Hugh Pearman wrote in the Sunday Times that Dublin now had the chance to trump London.
Perhaps the world is now turning and in a different direction for Libeskind. What’s the view from Dublin?
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Perhaps the world is now turning and in a different direction for Libeskind. What’s the view from Dublin?From the heritage perspective, the Industrial Heritage Association of Ireland strenuously objected to his proposal as completely out of place, given the setting of Dun Laoghaire Harbour.
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council are not happy with us and the Harbour Company wont acknowledge our objection.
Perhaps the scales of illusion that obscure the architectural media may fall and the reality of these works can be seen as undisciplined and poorly executed novelties. Like much of the post modern work, the joke, the idea, in particular, non architectural ideas is only good on the first or second reading. After that, so what, it becomes a boring repetition of shallow thoughts. Just because it looks like a duck dosen’t mean it is a duck. There are enough emperors without clothes in Ireland, what do we need another one for, to paraphrase Elvis Costello. The world embraced a shallow interpretation of modernisim in the Internaitonal Style, which gave rise to wholly inapproprate exerises in cultural colonialism. We are repeating these mistakes.
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