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    • July 29, 2002 at 6:27 pm #705625
      ro_G
      Participant

      http://www.irish-architecture.com/onsite/spike/architects_statement.html

      anyone know of a location with pics/models of the failed entries for the Millenium monument?

      a friend in the US requires visualisation of the saucer/Nelsons Pillar entry!

    • July 30, 2002 at 10:33 am #720368
      ew
      Participant

      There’s a picture of the saucer in Frank Mcdonalds book. It’s very funny. It was a joke I hope.

    • July 30, 2002 at 10:48 am #720369
      Paul Clerkin
      Keymaster

      No joke…. serious entry and many more were of that ilk and quality

    • July 30, 2002 at 11:13 am #720370
      roskav
      Participant

      I always thought it would be nice to have a quiet park somewhere, with a forest of pediments with failed competition entry models on top of them – in glass boxes. A sort of limbo for all those ideas and opportuntities – where you could wander, contmplate and think melencholic thoughts…

    • July 31, 2002 at 3:24 pm #720371
      ew
      Participant

      Here’s one for the limbo park. It’s certaintly not the worst of them but I’m very glad the spike won.

      http://www.fklarchitects.com/pilar.htm

    • July 31, 2002 at 8:26 pm #720372
      PaulC
      Participant

      My favourite of the also rans was the Glass Obelisk, with the centre hollowed in the actual shape of the old Nelson Pillar. This would be light from within also, to give a haunting effect at night – I think this one was the runner up. It certainly was an imaginative idea.

    • August 1, 2002 at 5:51 pm #720373
      Starch
      Participant

      ….check the riai 2000 yearbook………it has a heap of the enteries…….well at least 4 anyways…….with judges comments and the like…….

    • August 1, 2002 at 5:57 pm #720374
      ro_G
      Participant

      anyone fancy scanning and posting? or will that break copyright?

    • August 1, 2002 at 8:46 pm #720375
      MG
      Participant

      Breach of copyright!

    • August 1, 2002 at 9:06 pm #720376
      ro_G
      Participant

      ah, agreed and fair enough, but isn’t it strange how such a high profile competition has so few references with pics on the web

    • August 2, 2002 at 12:19 pm #720377
      roskav
      Participant

      It’s handy to focus in on a competition where the building is such an “object”…. there are so many other “might have beens” and “nearly weres” or maybe some “stuck in the pipelines” that could do with some discussion. Like for instance the two competitions held seperately in Kilkenny in 1999 for a civic space and civic offices. These were won – decided upon… what’s going on with them?

    • August 8, 2002 at 3:39 pm #720378
      Jack
      Participant

      How much of a mad rush are you in for them?……………I’ve no computer at the minute and am not sure when it’ll be back……

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