Leinster Lawn

I read somewhere over the weekend, that the OPW is to remove the plinth in front of Leinster House (Kildare Street) and replace the surface carpark with a lawn and a fountain. I can only assume that Leinster lawn will be restored then. The obelisk by Raymond McGrath looks very odd in a tarmacadam carpark.

Yes time the temporary car park was gone.
Poor Raymond Mc Grath, almost the only thing of his in Ireland is that obelisk.

Yeah its a shame really. He could have been a contender

He’s in good company
Peter Rice, Eileen Gray….

The great unknowns… has anyone written a book on Peter Rice? or where is there a good source of info on him?

We’re talking about the genius structural engineer Peter Rice, he of the Sydney Opera House, Pompidou Centre etc?

I know only of his own book “An Engineer Imagines”, written right at the end of his too-short life and published in 1998. A brilliant project in there (I think) is his “theatre of the Moon” in Provence: idea being to light an amphitheatre entirely with reflectors tracking the moon.

Bit of a bummer when it’s cloudy, I would imagine.

Must look for a copy of that.

This thread kinda dwindled nicely. Any body got any more info on that theatre of the moon?