Does anyone know the architect name for this building?
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It does look much better in that picture, but I don’t know if I like it still…
The Humana Building on the other hand is great.
see to me it looks like some property developer had a hardon for victorian workhouses or asylums…. its a new style called “Property Developer Awfulism”
Surrounded by hectares of Tarmac in the form of roads and carparks. They probably called it “hard landscaping”. Do people really live in there?
But there’s a good discussion in embryo here. I think I’m going to start a thread on World Architecture called “Good post-modern buildings”. Not that this is one of them.
It does look better from overhead – but it’s right next to a drive thru McDonalds and the ugliest shopping centre in Ireland…
But the architects were “responsible” for Maryborough Downs + Mews, Douglas…
I rest my case
And I like it!!!
Well not so much work-house and asylums as cathedrals and ye olde grande houses. Whatever anyone says, the very fact the Watergold Building gets a response out of people justifies the fact it has character. The Humana Building above is the same. I just know what I like, some of my projects are of a similar style – but future ones are going to lean a lot more on Gothic/Romanesque meets Modernity and Cheateau Grande style – incorporating all that is positive in modern Irish architecture along the way. Towering stone colums, ornate detail, mansard roofs – the works. Think Antonio Gaudi et al Sagrada Familia meets the Watergold Building. Don’t pass judgement yet, just wait and see the results first.
lol… i can’t wait…. second pic does make it seem a lot better than the first one. kinda grows on ya really.
The mere mention of Sagrada Familia makes me shudder. I saw it recently n all I can say is it looks Gawdy! Sorry I drove my friends crazy wit dat one when we were there! As for the Watergold building I don’t know wat I think of the building itself but its surrounded by a bloody car park. Did the architect ever consider outdoor space? I know it rains a lot but when de sun does shine like where are the residents supposed to go. I suppose they could sit on the outdoor picnic tables in the mc donalds next door, with their super size meals, and consider the thought that a generic fast food outlet has more open space than there “upmarket” apartments.
If they built the carpark underground and created open space for residents and perhaps some commercial aspect seems as it is the centre of douglas.
I think developers hav made a mess of Douglas anyway!Originally posted by Paul Clerkin
oh god…. does anyone know a paid assassin in cork?There’s a brothel in Cork called the ‘Ass Ass Inn’, if that’s any good to ya Paul? Hehe – only messing…I demolished that years ago. 😉
And as for my talk of bring Antonio Gaudi and Renzo Piano styles together – I was only partially joking…or was I??? Hmmm.
Yeah I do like the idea of classical and modern architecture fused – some of the drawings we have for preplanning projects are exceptionally tasteful by all accounts – and have been designed (at a lot of expense and time) to raise the architectural standard of Cork city ten-fold. The idea is to have buildings that attract business with a WOW-factor. Previous experience has shown this is a highly successful technique.
As for assassins, if they’re needed in Cork, its for some unmentionable people whom I met today (though not they way I had hoped) who proved to me that they are at once patronizing, ill-informed and down-right rude! You know who I’m talking about. I can only assume the individual I encountered does not reflect all members – regardless of the fact that I clash with them regularly on the Planning field.
i am shocked!!!!!!!! really…”patronizing, ill-informed and down-right rude” i would never have thought that from the champion of the people.
Damn I wish I understood sarcasm. You are being sarcastic right, FIN???
I’m trying to organise a meeting with them again but they are proving to be very aloof and difficult. I don’t understand how they can so casually disrupt the development process – and then when asked to discuss with those involved in the project, they simply refuse to. Have they got something to hide???
I won’t write any further evaluations of my meeting with them before the outcome of any prospective further meeting. But so far, they ain’t doing themselves ANY favours.
lol. i was lexington.
walls have ears, as they say, so i would hold back until after the next meeting if u get one.
They think they have a divine right and are right no matter what the consequences. no amount of argument, common sense can make them see differently. personally i don’t understand it.Originally posted by Mob79
Falcon crest meets aldi.Got to say I agree with your summary. Thing that mystifies me about this building, is why they are trying so hard. I mean maybe they usually have planning problems (or perhaps it is the height issue) but the context is not exactly demanding a quasi- traditional response. Its a pathetically blatant planning trick.
Originally posted by lexington
This is the Watergold Office Building in Douglas, Cork city. In my opinion, one of the nicest office buildings in the cityWell I must say that, having skimmed over the Cork threads, I began to feel slightly sorry for you and that maybe An Taisce Cork were being overprotective of the city scale, but I take it all back if this is your idea of a nice building. If the quality of developments you were involved in werent umpteen trillion times better than this, then the objectors to your schemes were well justified.
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