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Feck sake lads it’s a convention centre, it’s supposed to be a box to hold conventions and compared to the likes of the NEC in Birmingham or the Excel centre (as seen in G20) in London this is a pleasure.
Really what were you expecting, another Customs House?
@Satrastar wrote:
For me, the colour is a big disappointment. That dull pink stone may as well be concrete.
But maybe in the future, they can re-clad the building…
Having been up close and personal with this I disagree, the stone looks quite well, especially on a bright day. The glass is also impressive – they can light it any colour they want – and based on observations by friends the glass drum can be seen reflecting the sun while flights are circling around before coming in to land at Dublin Airport. I don’t think the building’s amazing or anything but it’s a solid addition. Having been inside, it’s damn impressive and vertigo inducing from certain places!
This is how the Chineese did it (not holding this up as a brilliant example by any stretch, but certinally better than our lump)
http://www.worldbuildingsdirectory.com/project.cfm?id=184“Feck sake lads it’s a convention centre, it’s supposed to be a box to hold conventions”
Yes it is a convention centre, but it is also one of the most prominant additions to the quays since, well the four courts, surley that is a reason in itself to consider its worth as more than just fulfilling its function, so yes another customs house would be nice (by which of course I mean in a modern idiom, handeled with the same competance and skill)
Convention centre is just a name, its a place of assembly, which puts it in a far broader category of reference, hell even Liebeskind’s thing is better, another quick sacan of the “world building directory” gives us this:
http://www.worldbuildingsdirectory.com/project.cfm?id=1020Again not necessarily my cup of tea, and conext is somewhat different, but at least it exhibits some reasonable skill in execution.
@spoil_sport wrote:
This is how the Chineese did it (not holding this up as a brilliant example by any stretch, but certinally better than our lump)
http://www.worldbuildingsdirectory.com/project.cfm?id=184“Feck sake lads it’s a convention centre, it’s supposed to be a box to hold conventions”
Yes it is a convention centre, but it is also one of the most prominant additions to the quays since, well the four courts, surley that is a reason in itself to consider its worth as more than just fulfilling its function, so yes another customs house would be nice (by which of course I mean in a modern idiom, handeled with the same competance and skill)
Convention centre is just a name, its a place of assembly, which puts it in a far broader category of reference, hell even Liebeskind’s thing is better, another quick sacan of the “world building directory” gives us this:
http://www.worldbuildingsdirectory.com/project.cfm?id=1020Again not necessarily my cup of tea, and conext is somewhat different, but at least it exhibits some reasonable skill in execution.
Yes but in reality we are in the realm of where STW buildings are considered edgy – it’s not ideal, but it’s not as bad as it could have been. It’s a functional box and it is of it’s time – at least after 20 years of tooling around we’re getting the convention centre
I’ve Googled a few images of convention centres from around the world and as convention centres go, I suppose the new one in Dublin doesn’t look too bad, in all honesty, especially when you consider how ultra conservative we are in Ireland.
The convention centre is a massive, scale-less, bombastic box which is completely out of ‘fashion’ because A: it was designed sooo long ago and B: it was designed in the most overtly ‘fashionable’ and facile period of architecture of the last century.
@what? wrote:
The convention centre is a massive, scale-less, bombastic box which is completely out of ‘fashion’ because A: it was designed sooo long ago and B: it was designed in the most overtly ‘fashionable’ and facile period of architecture of the last century.
but do you like it?
A few random convention centre pics from a google image search, and a few of them look shit, and that is supposed to prove?
Here are some Flikr links to images Rafael Moneo’s attempt at one of these things.
Yes its a “box to hold conventions”, but its a lovley box. Refined, elegant and wonderfully composed.http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshewwahh/161541216/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ninaiznaizena/291750542/sizes/l/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/getdown/185627023/sizes/l/A few random convention centre pics from a google image search, and a few of them look shit, and that is supposed to prove?
Here are some Flikr links to images of Rafael Moneo’s attempt at one of these things.
Yes its a “box to hold conventions”, but its a lovley box. Refined, elegant and wonderfully composed.http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshewwahh/161541216/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ninaiznaizena/291750542/sizes/l/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/getdown/185627023/sizes/l/Aye indeed, that would look absolutely wonderful down the Dublin docks amongst all the STW stuff …instead! And lit, up like Las Vegas at night …….wonderful!
i dont think anyones suggesting actually transplanting the building, more what is built in other cities with the same type of brief, which is a point worth making
Am amazed at the level of revulsion towards the NCC. It doesn’t look pink to me in my photos of it, more like peach. The blank side wall is broken up by the horizontal and vertical lines and the impact from the front is nothing short of stunning. In any case, the side wall is not visible either from the front or when the building is viewed at a distance from a river bridge.
@spoil_sport wrote:
Here are some Flikr links to images Rafael Moneo’s attempt at one of these things.
Yes its a “box to hold conventions”, but its a lovley box. Refined, elegant and wonderfully composed.That building is horrific – at night, it is so bright it puts the rest of the city in shadow, and during the day it looks like an air vent.
@spoil_sport wrote:
This is how the Chineese did it (not holding this up as a brilliant example by any stretch, but certinally better than our lump)
http://www.worldbuildingsdirectory.com/project.cfm?id=184That horrendous building looks like a sandcrawler from Star Wars. A sandcrawler to our R2D2!
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/dinkeloo/convention/convention.html includes plans and a cross section supplied by the architects.
Shot of the drum interior/stairwell from the indo…
Here is the promotional video…
http://www.theccd.ie/video/dublin.html
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