Need to Compile List of Irish Architects for Magazine Article ASAP. Please Help!

….. lol… a Mr. Scott who designed Busaras…. very formal…. we all know him as “old mickey” here 😉

Speaking as a researcher with a knowledge of architecture your best bet would be to compile the winners of AAI and RIAI award winners from the last decade.

Allocate a number of points for first, second etc in both the categories and a for overall winners.

Other than that you could be debating the question for time than you have got.

Sam Stephenson would be my pick but he’s not exactly current.

you mupp, sam stephenson is god-awfully awful. mupp.

be sure and put tom de paor on that list.

dont mind the awards points system. thats more a measure of a projects profile and exposure, as well as having your mate president at any given stage.

good morning btw

Sam Stephenson is principally remembered for the Central Bank project. He won a design competition for Wood Quay in which he designed a four block structure. However the funding situation during the 1980’s prevented it’s completion.

Scott Tallon Walker designed the newer Blocks 3&4 on which they did a fine job.

Sam Stephenson also designed a Library on Burlington Rd and Moleneaux house on Bride St amongst other projects.

He gets all the blame for Wood Quay, which I think is a little unfair as something would have been built anyway. He was scathing in a Sunday Tribune article in 1986 at the way the cost managers kept cutting corners and he was fuming about how little the final (1986) scheme resembled his original design.

Don’t forget the Bord na mona building on Baggot Street which was deemed interesting enough to feature on a postage stamp in the 80s….

That building won an An Taisce award,

But why Sam should be remembered I think is his capacity to design very different buildings.

Take 76 Baggot St that you mentioned Paul, compare it with The Central Bank then compare that with the Burlington Rd Library.

His versatility was massive: The only thing bigger was his ego!!!!

douglas wallace will have to feature i suppose as well as murray o’ laoire. and what about the designers of that gallery in egypt…sorry i can’t remember their names so apoligies to them for that.

heneghan peng. great practice

that’s them..thanks sw101.

Douglas Wallace? you jest surely? designed the interiors of Peter Marks outlets hardly constitutes cutting edge…. similarly I’d remove Scott Tallon Walker and wouldnt bother adding Bardon Dunne

douglas wallace are doing some fine buildings in galway. don’t know much about them in dublin though.

The Morrison hotel is all about its interior – the exterior could be any technological office park in the country. so its a “changing rooms” project, and if the RIAI want to debase their currency by giving awards to “changing rooms” projects….

Douglas wallace out. dermot boyd out.

the morrison is utter wank. touted as sponsored by john rocha. i think he did a lamp fitting or something and they paid him a fortune for the name.

i’d say again tom de paor. he has his own practice doesnt he? and howley harrington have to be in there, millenium bridge, their work in ballymun

http://www.dlharbour.ie/pages/projects/present.html#item01

Strip hennigan.peng and Scott Tallon fast,

Dire submissions on the DunLaoire comp.

It really begs the question can STW see anything beyond the miesian phase of architecture?

Catch 22 – Awards (at present) seem to follow work, work follows connections (influence), Awards follow pattern of influence. Media follow awards therefore Media (promotion) follows the pattern of influence. Follow (show me) the money.
No change. The very fact that nepotistic patterns of influence which were before vaguely understood are rapidly becoming supported publicly (MTV, Various other articles extolling nepotistic behaviour and the value of influence over openness) seems to promote and extend the influence of the few over the benefits of the many. Since the Media portray the same few they take on the mantle of being the cutting edge and acceptable. History is the best judge ofquality.

History is the only judge, shadow. I agree.

indeed. but the very few to break out of the mould! luck or objectivity on judging panels?

Originally posted by Paul Clerkin
Don’t forget the Bord na mona building on Baggot Street which was deemed interesting enough to feature on a postage stamp in the 80s….

Or Mr. DePoar’s Euro-tastic turf briquette house.

:rolleyes:
I personally never try to be constructive with these type of queries – my view being if you’re getting paid to research, go to a library instead of getting us to do it for free.
Pisses me off no end, I normally remove queries from “journalists” or “researchers”.

RobertF, I hope you mentioned the site in your article?

indeed…reference tools used etc….