New Public Space for Docklands
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does anyone else think the 2nd image is like one giant game of celebrity squares?
purple dress girl looks like she’s been rohypnoled by the peter reid lookalike in the black suit
He looks more like a Bond villan.OH DEAR LORD NO! Hes killed Bond’s girl and with her goes the code to the vault in Zurich! At least it was a happy death for her.
Also making an appearance in the top photo are Paul Smith from Maximo Park and JP MacManus
I’m worried about the Libeskind theate – his newly completed ROM in Toronto is disappointing – I’m afraid that the finished product in Dublin will similarly fall short of the images and hype.
Images of the finished ROM
http://canada.archiseek.com/news/2007/000149.htmlIts difficult to judge the finished product set against this ‘render’
Libeskind is certainly hit & miss, lets hope his Dublin commission lives up to the renders.
Swartch’ design takes much of its inspiration from Libeskind’s propsoal, indeed they are almost interdependent, successful execution of both is essential.I Haven’t seen the finished landscape design yet, i hope the overall scheme hasn’t fallen at the first hurdle.
Liebeskind smacks of half-arsedness. He’s become a brand, with cities vying to get him to design a building for them. He’s starting to take up the ubiquity associated with the Hilton Hotels before they were everywhere. I suppose its what the cities want though. Frank Gehry once said something about how any of his clients nowadays would be very dissappointed if he produced something which didnt look like the Guggenheim Bilbao.
Personally I think that Zaha Hadid should be building this building.
Is there even a water feature in the square:confused: Or is it just full of concrete and read poles.
If you look at the second from last picture, you can see that there are a number of holes in the marble. I believe these are to become fountain nozzles. It isn’t operational yet, however.
I think it’s quite successful really. A bit more green wouldn’t have gone amiss, but it is being used quite intensely already as a place to sit around in. It fulfills it’s original intent: to give life to the area.
The pictures look great, but give a misleading to the look of the place. Alot of the work is decidedly substandard. The stone paving is poorly laid, and the materials chosen in some cases sub-DIY (the green benches in particular will be flaking in no time).
But then again the speed by which the original square was reconfigured to look like this should be indicative…
…this reminds me of a student project …..or something you might find in a provincial city in china- parts of it are very tacky…..but worst of all it is patchy….i thinkk the planting is good, but again regimented, leaving the vast amount of the space looking cold and unwelcoming….also i don’t think the red carpet looks good- it appears pink and faded…and how long before it be becomes a polka dot pattern with gum….. what is the libeskind-esque wire mesh structure???
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If you look at the second from last picture, you can see that there are a number of holes in the marble. I believe these are to become fountain nozzles. It isn’t operational yet, however.
I have seen this water feature turned on on a few occasions.
Stop complaining people, the square looks well! (Maybe not as well as in the renders, but things rarely do)
Those green lights look like that cheap tacky disco rope imo.
Not a fan of the red poles either but each to their own and all that.@Starch wrote:
what is the libeskind-esque wire mesh structure???
Car park entrance, afaik.
I do like the selection of plants.
Yeah, you can see that they havn’t gone with the same landscaper who plonks 2000 saplings at motorway interchanges. I say plonks rather than plants because many of them end up falling down and dying due to half-arsed planting.
Crosbie firm buys €100m theatre being built in Dublin docklands
The Irish TimesDublin entrepreneur Harry Crosbie’s Point Village Company has bought the 2,200-seat theatre currently under construction at Grand Canal Square in Dublin’s docklands. The €100 million theatre is the third major performance venue planned for the docklands, following the redevelopment of the Point – also owned by Mr Crosbie – and the planned move of the Abbey Theatre to the area. The new building was originally promoted by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority. It was designed by architect Daniel Libeskind, who designed the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Libeskind was also involved in designs for Ground Zero in New York. The proposed name for the venue is the Canal St Theatre, and it will host major international shows including ballet, opera and drama.
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2007/0703/1183326714225.html
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