Architectural legacy of the Celtic Tiger ?

The problem with building any grand projects to day are manyfold.
Most projects would be held up by objections by small minded people who cant embrace change for years. (I’m still in shock the spire made it past the drawing board, and only 3 years after it was planned)
So if the project isn’t scraped at the inital stages (after spending large amounts of money aswell, national stadium springs to mind) everybody will be up in arms about spending money on whatever it is. I find this strange as over the last few years the country has been making money hand over fist.
Hitler could only have these buildings built because he was a curel leader, the people were terrified of him, Most Great projects were undertaken in a time when the rich were rich and thw poor had nothing. Even back in the eighties th epeople were more worried about their jobs than Charlie’s office.
I dont know what the solution to this is but it is ture at in an era where irelands economy was at its peak there is little to remind us of it in the future.

I watched an excellent programme on BBC2 (via BBC3) on Sunday afternoon called Dreamspaces. Anyone catch it? It featured Antwerp in Belgium, reporting on how a visionary and daring city council have rejuvenated the city and created some pretty fantastic new buidlings all in sympathy to the historical look of the city. It was very interesting..well worth catching next week. And definately a great example of what can be done with vision, willpower and good managment.