hawkins house
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So the OPW are to spend £10m on Hawkin’s house ?
Whay don’t they just get some Semtex off the IRA, blow the f***er up, thereby doing some decomissioning in the process.
Any suggestions as to how the OPW might spend the £10m ?
Oh come on… they’re not really going to bother are they? Jesus, Ballymun flats are to be destroyed what makes Hawkin’s House more worthy of salvation?
How much would a totally new building cost?
Are they attempting to save some post modern classic or something?
John
Why are they bothering? the whole building is just wrong and should be torn down…the OPW has done some decent stuff in the past but they can’t perform miracles!!
The danger is, that after refacinmg the entire block we just end up with an equally horrible building with post-modern / neoclassical details and tinted windows……
not really much better….
tear it down…..
Even if the building was refaced to look good, the surrounding junk building wouldn’t let it be appreciated from a skyline perspective. It should be taken down and the whole street level design be rethought. THen we might have an area that would be worthy of it’s prime location, to be appreciated at street level.
Well considering the civil servants will not allow their precious car spaces on the ground level to be done away with we are still going to end up with a biscuit tin on stilts, set well back from the building line.
TEAR IT DOWN !
RORY W
Does anyone know where we could see images of what they are proposing.
I heard somewhere that the OPW were considering refurbishing this eye-sore. Is this true and if it is could anybody tell me what the planned works involve and when the project is due to begin.
See the June 2001 ‘Envelope’ supplement to Building Design, page 9 (part of a feature on Buro Happold Facade Engineering), for a small colour image of a glassy, “multiple-skin” re-worked Hawkins House.
Thanks for that one trace. I`m living abroad right now and I will not be able to get hold of a copy, which I would really like to see. I would really appreciate if you could tell me if I could get this article on the web somewhere, Thanks.
No joy, sorry. Interior views of Phase 1 – a universally accessible foyer for the Department of Health and Children – are at http://www.murrayolaoire.com/projects/civic%20buildings/hawkins%20house/ 150hawkinsimage1.html et seq.
“Floating flood Lit roof…” sounds pretty different but really is there any ammount of alterations to the present structure that can make it acceptable or even positive.
For eg. The refurbishment of O’Connell House (Q Bar) wasn’t an improvement at all IMO, possibly worse now with the drapes of black glass.
When’s the Hawkins House facelift going to get under way, Ireland’s greatest attempt at Stalinist architecture? I note that there are no plans, suffice to say, to chop the top three storeys off the building, which impose themselves in the most ghastly way imaginable onto Burgh Quay, directly over it’s finest 18th century building. Why can’t the Department do the decent thing and level the building, and relocate to the vast tracts of vacant office space elsewhere in the city? The building is standing on some prime real estate that could release some much needed funds for the Dept of Health.
This thing should be levelled and no ‘new improved’ version should be imposed on us again to stand for another 40 years.
wasn’t aware that the opw were planning on chopping a few stories off as part of their refurbishment…
I reckon it should be demolished but as the decision has already been made to keep it, the sooner work starts the better (as it is now looking worse than ever before with all of its shiny new neighbours… )
As far as i know the dept. are currently busy shifting their staff here there and everywhere to allow the refurb to go ahead.i am always on the look out for info regarding large projects in the city/county. i know that hawkins is due to be done up shortly but any idea when? i hear it has started but i could be wrong. i just find it very hard to get this info on the net or in the papers and that is why i am asking you people in this site. information can be so hard to get at times. does anyone know where exactly i can find this info? thank you.
cheers.
The OPW own Hawkins House so maybe you should contact them or visit http://www.opw.ie
may help
http://burohappold.temp.marketingnetdemo.com/explore/projects/Hawkins.php?THIS_AREA=
also the murray O’Laoire link mentioned earlier
If you’re that interested check the planning desk at Dublin City Council. There was a planning application lodged a year or two ago which as far as I remember included the construction of a 2-3 block in the surface car park onto Poolbeg st.
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