Dishonest Architecture
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Is it wrong to be blatantly dishonest in composing visuals of proposed projects? I was looking at proposals of the new town centre of Athlone – only to find parts of Georgian Dublin used as a vista in visuals of the project!!!!
http://www.athlonetowncentre.com/images.htm
Im sure by having such visulas it would create the impression that Athlone is already a densely built town – whereas in reality most buildings in the town are just two storeys high!!! Obviously such visuals were made to sell the town – however should architects be complicit in such architectural untruths?
I was watching the burning of Cork on RTE last night, but many of the images used in the programme were those of the destruction of O’Connell Street and the Customs House, hazily used to obscure the obvious identifying features, but not enough to escape my scrutiny!
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Which image shows these buildings J. Seerski – is it the first one? Are you sure these buildings aren’t actually here?
Fully agreed about Hidden Histories – the practice in this country of tossing down any old archive footage as wallpaper drives me insane; it’s always cherry-picked from the most irrelevant places and edited to ‘fool’ the public, in spite of the fact that the footage often speaks for itself as to its origins.
Saying that, as Cork City Hall is modelled on the Custom House and has pretty much carbon copy windows, it’s possible it was this building featured.
Only saw bits of the programme though, but wouldn’t surprise me in the least if Nelson’s Pillar cropped up a few times in the backgound. And as for the cropping of 4:3 images for 16:9 😡 -
Hmm, I think you may be right J. Seerski – In the first image the building at the end of the vista should actually be the monstrous new Prince Of Wales Hotel:
http://www.theprinceofwales.ie/#
In the 4th image the vista ends with Ballymahon Rd and I can’t remember seeing any such noble Georgians along there (the road between the railway station and the town). May be wrong though… -
😀 the georgain houses in athlone are real, they are doctors and solicitors houses beside the new town centre.
But if ou want to see doctored visuals check the overall map of athlone and look at the shannon on the athlonetowncentre its blue, the last time i jumped into the shannon it was more like a browny green, must have been a chemical spill maybe domestos or something along those lines -
Hmm, I think you may be right J. Seerski – In the first image the building at the end of the vista should actually be the monstrous new Prince Of Wales Hotel:
http://www.theprinceofwales.ie/#
In the 4th image the vista ends with Ballymahon Rd and I can’t remember seeing any such noble Georgians along there (the road between the railway station and the town). May be wrong though…
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