exploration station
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February 5, 2007 at 11:06 pm #709197notjimParticipant
was at the launch of this in the opw today: its the new children’s interactive science center which will be on the big site by heuston station, near the tall residential tower, near a small stretch of comac. it looks really impressive, modelled on spirals like a shell, with curved walls perpendicular to spiral walls all positioned to give golden mean ratios and with a stumpy tower at the apex creating a 4 story atrium, 6600 m^2 for the whole building and not a square room in it by the pictures, designed by some coughlan i think, an architect with the opw. opening 2010.
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February 6, 2007 at 11:38 am #787321adminKeymaster
It would be intersting to see some images; the OPW have done some pretty good work in conservation projects and sensitive infill at some of their more important historical sites. It would therefore be interesting to see what they have come up with ‘in house’ for an unapologetically modern building.
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February 6, 2007 at 3:09 pm #787322AnonymousInactive
They were talking about this on George Hook show on Newstalk yesterday, George seemed very impressed with the plans. They are trying to replicate childrens museums in the likes of Boston and Dallas.
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February 7, 2007 at 12:14 am #787323AnonymousInactive
“as part of the cities museum quarter”
hmm sounds like it just more big dead buildings
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February 7, 2007 at 4:32 pm #787324AnonymousInactive
This sounds FANTASTIC. I remember I went to one in Amsterdam a few years ago and it was one of the best places I went to over my trip there in the Low Countries. This sounds like a really great idea for a really great city.
As well as that, I recall reading in the midst of the NDP hoopla that the tourism element was to include a focus on things to do and not just building accommodation. Over the last NDP the focus was almost exclusively on building hotels and guest-houses etc.
That area around heuston sounds like it won’t know itself come opening day of this edifice. With the heuston Gate standing guard and the surrounds of HSQ, the place should be an awful lot more lively than it is now.
As well, how will this building be dead??? it certainly will be big, but with the amount of people going in and out, the activity at all of the exhibits inside and the hum of traffic at, what is after all, a transport hub of the city, it will certainly not dead.
On a final note it shoud be a good boost to the interest of science amongst the young of this country. Such interest is essential in retaining high-skilled, high-paid jobs in the face of international competition. At last a centre where science can be made fun and accessible to all.
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February 7, 2007 at 9:41 pm #787325AnonymousInactive
@Cathal Dunne wrote:
This sounds FANTASTIC. I remember I went to one in Amsterdam a few years ago and it was one of the best places I went to over my trip there in the Low Countries. This sounds like a really great idea for a really great city.
As well as that, I recall reading in the midst of the NDP hoopla that the tourism element was to include a focus on things to do and not just building accommodation. Over the last NDP the focus was almost exclusively on building hotels and guest-houses etc.
That area around heuston sounds like it won’t know itself come opening day of this edifice. With the heuston Gate standing guard and the surrounds of HSQ, the place should be an awful lot more lively than it is now.
As well, how will this building be dead??? it certainly will be big, but with the amount of people going in and out, the activity at all of the exhibits inside and the hum of traffic at, what is after all, a transport hub of the city, it will certainly not dead.
On a final note it shoud be a good boost to the interest of science amongst the young of this country. Such interest is essential in retaining high-skilled, high-paid jobs in the face of international competition. At last a centre where science can be made fun and accessible to all.
unless you happen to pass by at the exact time as a gaggle of school children most musuems I’ve been to seem deserted
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February 7, 2007 at 10:03 pm #787326Paul ClerkinKeymaster
that’s a gross exagggeration really – IMMA is almost always deserted, as is Collins Barracks, but the main museum and gallery at Kildare Street and Merrion Square are always pleasantly bustling places
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February 7, 2007 at 10:04 pm #787327AnonymousInactive
lostexpectation: what a wierd thing to say; any science museum i have been to has been a zoo.
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February 8, 2007 at 4:29 pm #787328AnonymousInactive
Found this
http://www.gyroscopeinc.com/irishChildrens.htmlNo idea if it is the actual design being proposed now
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February 8, 2007 at 5:13 pm #787329Paul ClerkinKeymaster
This is the only picture I’ve seen yet:
http://enn.ie/frontpage/news-9891883.html -
February 8, 2007 at 5:30 pm #787330AnonymousInactive
So the image in Pauk C’s link is of the model they had in opw at the launch, the LOB link must show something they sketch out earlier. I see my memory of the architects name was pretty poor, it is O’Connor not Coughlan.
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