Re: Re: High Rise Building

almost every single poster on this website seems to be committed to a vision of dublin as some kind of sanitised, gleaming bourgeois paradise like all those fake central areas of european tourist cities. this building obviously wouldn’t fit into that aesthetic vision; but i happen to think it’s got a shabby magnificence all its own and i dont want to see it knocked down to be replaced by a ‘mixed residential, retail, museum development’. and i don’t want to see our capital city with all its failures and shabbiness to be turned into some kind of disney vision of the ‘ideal european capital city’. that building is magnificent, and more importantly it has character