Re: Re: Dublin Fruit Market

Why is it that the architects were unable to propose a development involving brick and stone, voids and solids, arcades and arches, streets and piazze – in other words, a contemporary and complementary take on the classical rennaissance themes of the Fruit Market? Why is it that the best they can come up with is a quirky modernist pastiche to a tired old formula (shoeboxes but not quite)? Can nobody do inventive townscape respecting the ‘genius loci’?