Back from the building graveyard?
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Does anyone think that there is any chance that Michael Scott’s Irish pavilion for the New york world fair, could be re-built here in Ireland in the future…………
Technically no problem. The IAA has an impressive set of plans and there may well be plans in the USA with the building control people there. Legal rights might be a problem to sort out.
The artwork is lost, but there are B&W photos.
And let us not forget the little garden in front in the shape of Ireland, – a nice twee little touch.
What artwork is lost……. I thought that the majority of the artwork on show was on loan from the National Gallery and private collectors
….but to think of it for a moment…does’nt that border on a bit of the old blarney…you know what ye’d get in tourist shops but this is in architectural terms….a building in the shape of a shamrock (I bet the interior had green somewhere) with a wee little garden in the shape of dear old Ireland …..visions of Dana singing ‘all kinds of everything’…… Flately doin’ the Riverdance, Maeve Binchy, the pictures of the Pope, JFK and the Sacred Heart over a log fire with a cauldron of stew,Guinneass,Christy ‘Diddle De Idle’ Moore, Aran Jumpers and Auld Dev,etc….. ….does it not sound all a bit kitch. Jeff Koons stuff.
It’s our culture I suppose.[This message has been edited by GregF (edited 21 June 2001).]
Believe it or not at the time, it was original, when it did become very twee years later, Michael tried to give the credit to a politician for the inspiration of the floor plan/building shape
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Lost artwork query earlier
The building mural,”The Shannon Basin” by Sean Keating,which was painted on board in sections, and in total size was 9.1m X 24.4m does not seem to have been taken back from New York.
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