architecture limbo
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February 25, 2011 at 4:38 pm #711328
Paul Clerkin
KeymasterAlthough somewhere in the back of my head, I see to recall they abolished Limbo…. there’s a fair amount of projects have disappeared to it ….
National Museum, Collins Barracks
Markets Area by MAKE
DIT Grangegorman?
Abbey Theatre?A few big ones that spring to mind that I havent heard mentioned it a while
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March 1, 2011 at 6:44 pm #816677
Anonymous
Inactivespeaking of architectural limbo, does anyone know what is happening with the Grand Canal Square Hotel? that chequered building designed by Manuel Aires Mateus beside the Grand Canal Theatre. It is finished but empty, does anyone know who owns it?
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March 1, 2011 at 7:06 pm #816678
Paul Clerkin
Keymasterprobably NAMA š
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April 6, 2011 at 9:48 pm #816679
Anonymous
Inactive@Paul Clerkin wrote:
Although somewhere in the back of my head, I see to recall they abolished Limbo…. there’s a fair amount of projects have disappeared to it ….
Quite right, it’s gone. Limbo was for stillborn infants and those who died unbaptized, somewhat like a place for building projects that never got off the drawing boards and others that never were topped-off.
Limbo was demolished about 2006. The Clerical Enforcement Office at the County Hall determined that limbo could no longer exist because serious issues had arisen on planning compliance. A document published by them with the approval of the infallible arbiter of taste stated that the concept of Limbo as a place where unfinished buildings spend eternity without communion with the great and good of the architectural profession seemed āmedievalā and to reflect an “unduly restrictive view of salvation.” They took action because the thought that unfinished office blocks would be relegated to a kind of no-man’s-land in the afterlife has tormented generations of architects. “The many factors that we have considered … give serious technical and design grounds for hope that uncompleted buildings will be saved.”
The idea of limbo – from the Latin for “edge” ā a word clichĆ©d by the architectural profession – was meant to address the paradox that unfinished buildings could not go to heaven because their sin of āoriginal stateā had not been expunged, but nor should they go to purgatory or hell, places reserved for …….(no, letās not go there..)
“We cannot know with certainty what will happen when an unfinished building diesā, said a RIAI spokesman “But we have good grounds to hope that NAMA in its mercy and love will look after these buildings and bring them to salvation.ā
There you have it.
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