Re: Re: who are the National Conservation and Heritage Group

@johnglas wrote:

PaulH:No-one is talking about ‘museumification’, we are talking here about trendiness and the ‘magic bullet’ solution of high-rise. Dublin is not and never will be Metropolis; the Docklands are not low-rise, but medium rise, and terminally bland, at least on the northside. Unfortunately, the solution is seen as being more trendy and inviting in chancers like Liebeskind to design a building that everyone will hate. I live in the UK- many ‘redeveloped’ cities of the 60s and 70s were ruined by injudicious high-rise, system-built construction – Ballymun was a typical build-it-quick, get-the-poor-out-of-sight-out-of-mind ‘technological’ ‘solution’.
We know what constitutes good design and the does not equal high-rise in its current manifestation. Sprawling ‘estates’ are no kind of a solution, but can anyone today ‘design’ townscape?

The area in the docklands with the Liebeskind designed building coupled with the taller alto vetro is probably the most visually interesting for me.
The Liebskinds of the world are a product of our modern enviroment, everthing needs to be branded, instantly recognisable. So I dont think buildings are designed to last the ages, in such a throwawy, disposable world why would architecture not be the same. He’s a chancer (you say) in as much as any person who works for a profit is a chancer

you mention Ballymun………oh, ok, your one of those people i see:D
You would wonder why if these cities were ‘ruined’ in the 60s and 70s why there is a complete surge in high rise skyscraper type construction, especially London.

When Canary Wharf was built it helped save London, which now is even overpassing old NY, in some respects, for financial dominance
Also you ask can anyone today ‘design’ townscape, actually probably not on the news in the UK, but there is somesuch scheme here – click http://ireland.archiseek.com/news/2008/000039.html