East wall Community Centre
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In light of my recent negativity re the NCC etc, and from the observation that a large number of the comments on archiseek tend to be negative ones I just thought I’d post a few of my pics of this rather fantastic new O’Donnell Tuomey project, which seems to have gone largley under the radar here. Unfortunately, was unable to get interior shots.
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bit different for dublin;) i like
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Wow; how cool is that, I used to live in the East Wall and so I knew the old one well and, well, this is nothing like that. So playful without being silly. The render doesn’t look very graffiti proof?
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Yes. I like it too. 🙂
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why did they build those that tower, rather then use more of the rest of the site?
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I think you’d have to see this in the flesh, and I am expecting a giant mouse to appear and nibble on the tower.
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A concrete tower may be a strange image for a community centre, but it’s not unprecedented.
The small German city of Emden, on the North Sea coast, is still littered with the WW2 multi-storey concrete bunkers, structures which kept the bulk of the population alive throughtout the five years of the war.
They were community centres is a very real sense and one has been turned into a facinating museum.
The pink and grey bunker on the right is the museum.I hope the people of East Wall don’t know something we don’t!
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@gunter wrote:
A concrete tower may be a strange image for a community centre, but it’s not unprecedented.
The small German city of Edam, on the North Sea…
Good to fix it 🙂
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Drole!
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@gunter wrote:
A concrete tower may be a strange image for a community centre, but it’s not unprecedented.
The pink and grey bunker on the right is the museum.
I hope the people of East Wall don’t know something we don’t!
yes but that reuse of old buildings, this wasnt’ a rebuild was it, are lots of stairs good for old and young folks wanting to use the building
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A lift?
As far as I know, the tower is there because the community wanted it – a big building with which to announce themselves, a landmark if you will – however most of the public functions preferred to be at ground level, the tower therefore is a stack of offices and admin.
Yes, someone was taking notes at the AAI site visit…. -
Ah the AAI, we haven’t given them a good kicking in a while.
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more landmarks! I prefer functional buildings me.
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A lift?
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the riba journal is almost exclusively devoted to Ireland this month….this on the cover
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Mission accomplished so!
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it looks bland (then again I haven’t seen any plans etc. or visited the site)
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Northside community centre by O’Donnell and Tuomey listed for Lubetkin
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Good stuff.. I like the surrealism of that first photo up there, with the swiss-cheese tower peeking over the rows of brick terraces..
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O’Donnell and Tuomey listed for Lubetkin
Ok now it is gettign all weird, even surreal.
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