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    • #706206
      Rory W
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      Has anyone seen the new building near the junction of Burlington Road and Leeson Street Upper – Odd looking thing in some kind of quasi Regiancy/Georgian feel. I’ll get a pic of it at some stage. Think its offices but could be house/apartments only seen it from across the road.

      Oh and its pink!

    • #726882
      Paulines Pens
      Participant

      One of the more laughable efforts in the city. A mild form of architectural terrorism.

    • #726883
      chewy
      Participant

      whats that pink building near the burlington that was getting redone recently

    • #726884
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      if your talking about the pink building near the corner of burlington road that isnt being re-done. it is a new building and a monstrosity at that. it looks lika a paladian villa on steroids embelished with all the taste and refinement of the turks head.
      i know someone who lives on burlington road and they hate it (as well they should) that side of the road is completely traditional edwardian houses and now some developer with far more money than taste or sensitivity is building his own mansion on the corner complete with bomb shelter in the basement (so im informed). as he is a developer and insanely rich i can only say that some brown envelopes must have greased the wheels of the planning office in order to let this monstrosity loose on a street like burlington road.

    • #726885
      chewy
      Participant

      i thought the only reson it could be that colour is cos it might have original been that colour you know when ya redo old buildings to their original colours

      reminds me of the guy that said in mind of cribs is that the worse thing to happen to home design in the 90’s was millionaire basketball players
      now we can add developers

    • #726886
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Unbelievable looking thing. How was it allowed to be built? Looks like something from Disney World, except worse.

    • #726887
      Anonymous
      Participant

      Has quite a few simularities to the Ansbacher branch in the Caymans.

      The contrast with the new (2002) infill building on Waterloo lane is increadible. Which I am sure has been discussed before.

    • #726888
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      this pink monstrosity is a brand new, single house for a developer with (obviously) more money than taste. i thought the days of brown envelopes had passed but the fact that this got built is proof they are still with us. i am informed the building is complete with a bomb shelter in the basement. the over the top ornate detailing and ridiculous architectural moves(eg a big bridge that leads to a blank wall) that would be hilarious if they werent up against some of the nicer georgian and edwardian houses in dublin. i dont know who designed this carbuncle (he,he) but i would like to find out so that i could start a campaign to hound them from the shores of this country.
      the mews houses you speak of diaspora are by deblacam and meagher and make great use of a 12.5 m wide site fitting in three houses some with double height spaces.

    • #726889
      Anonymous
      Participant

      I’ve only ever seen Deblacham & Meaghar’s mews houses from a distance, but they look great. They certainly fooled me into thinking it was one entity at a glance from 100m.

      There is another building in a similar brick in Donnybrook opposite the fire station, which I also like.

      The design is probably a little retro for some but I like them. In marked contrast to this thing, Sam Stephensons Library at the other end of the same terrace should have disuaded the architects from engaging in such pastiche pink barbie architecture.

    • #726890
      FIN
      Participant

      pink! what a ammm interesting colour choice. it would certainly brighten up the street and is it a house?? any pics so i can view this wonder of irish architecture?

    • #726891
      Rory W
      Participant

      Hmmm – turns out it belongs to one of the owners of Treasury Holdings – so which one has bad taste??

    • #726892
      Paul Clerkin
      Keymaster

      Fucking awful

    • #726893
      roskav
      Participant

      Check out Irish arts review Vol 21 No 2 for interior pics… “Villa Splendido”

    • #726894
      burge_eye
      Participant

      Originally posted by Rory W
      Hmmm – turns out it belongs to one of the owners of Treasury Holdings – so which one has bad taste??

      John Ronan

      I believe the rather raunchy new statue across the way was stored there until the Office building got PC

    • #726895
      d_d_dallas
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      Jonny R? Really??? Someone lives there?!?

      I thought it was some temple or something (there’s a sign in the vicinity for some funky sounding religion so I assumed it was for that).

    • #726896
      Irishtown
      Participant

      A mild form of architectural terrorism.

      haha! So true.

    • #726897
      Frank Taylor
      Participant

      Is there no room in architecture for humour? Not all buildings have to be beautiful or well proportioned or matched with their surroundings.

      This building makes me smile. It lifts my spirits when I catch sight of it. It’s full of personality. Pompous and oversized, maybe- but it’s funny. Does it not make you laugh?

      Maybe the owner built it as a way of making a rude gesture to his wealthy neighbours. Maybe he is taking the piss out of conservationists.

      It must be galling to spend so much of your time as architects struggling to comply with planning regulations and then see something like this get through. However, would Dublin’s architecture not be more entertaining if the rules were relaxed to allow more comic structures like this? After all, the land is so valuable around D4 that if the next owner thinks it’s rubbish he’ll just knock it down and build a new one.

    • #726898
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Originally posted by Frank Taylor

      This building makes me smile. It lifts my spirits when I catch sight of it. It’s full of personality. Pompous and oversized, maybe- but it’s funny. Does it not make you laugh?

      Maybe the owner built it as a way of making a rude gesture to his wealthy neighbours. Maybe he is taking the piss out of conservationists.

      What is worrying about this building is that it was not built as some sort of architectural joke (and I am not sure if buildings can be used as a medium for comic references as their relative permanence ensures that the joke becomes old but unavoidable pretty soon). What is worrying about it is that it was conceived in the imagination of someone and then actually made into a reality as an expression of their taste which they want to share with (or inflict on) the general public. For me it is the architectural equivelant of Hello magazine: Glossy, shiny, hyperreal etc.

    • #726899
      burge_eye
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      Quote:
      Originally posted by Frank Taylor
      Is there no room in architecture for humour? Not all buildings have to be beautiful or well proportioned or matched with their surroundings.

      However, would Dublin’s architecture not be more entertaining if the rules were relaxed to allow more comic structures like this?

      What a good idea! Papa smurf could be made Chief Planning officer, the RDS scheme could be redesigned as a homage to Jack and the beanstalk, the AIB bank building annexed to the Magic Kingdom and Lansdowne road re-zoned for Frank Gehry’s latest aubergine inspired opus maximus. Why bother with college, style, taste and proportion? We could all qualify as architects simply by taking the boat through “it’s a small world after all”.

    • #726900
      vinnyfitz
      Participant

      Originally posted by Frank Taylor

      Maybe the owner built it as a way of making a rude gesture to his wealthy neighbours. Maybe he is taking the piss out of conservationists.

      I seem to recall the Phoenix reporting that the Irish Georgian Society had thier christmas drinks or some similar function in Johnny’s Burlington Rd Mosque last December. Or am I misremebering?

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