Public Spaces
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you have know reason to TRUST me Kefu……just trying to give you an educated answer…..you can choose to believe me or not. I work very closely on many of the projects that are mentioned in this thread….and I know how the process works….landscape design budgets dissapear as building budgets increase…..its a fact of life in Dublins design scene…not to mention that senior architects in the OPW make the final decisions on ALL the public open spaces in your city….I don’t know why an architect is in this position…..You may choose to beleive it or not, but landscape architecture is a very important component in our built environment….and there are many highly trained and professional people trying to get that message accross……at this point many people are too nieve or ignorant to accept that….at the very least I would expect an educated person to at least try and understand that….. I find that it is a real shame that people don’t understand the relationship between the interior and exterior environments…..I am sure that I don’t have to tell you that many of the most successful examples of architecture do not sit alone on barren sites….their is usually a very tight and coherant and exciting relationship between the building and the landscape….so much so that in many cases you probably do not notice it…..which is why I say trust me, because I can see it…and I can see why people talk negatively about public spaces in this city….how can we expect to create succesful public spaces when most people making the decisions on how to design them don’t know what those are?
But thats just my point of view…..
I agree totally. Even the very finest of buildings in this country, both old & new are often offset with the most basic, indeed often non-existant landscaping. Its always dealt with as a mere after-thought and is simply unacceptable. It cannot be overstated the importance of well designed public spaces and well thought-out hard & soft landscaping.
Greenarch, do you know when these works are scheduled to begin? I can’t belive this is being proposed! At last! All railings to the front of Leinster House must be removed in order for the plan to work, and I think the plinth should go as well, although paving following the line of it should be laid in its place. It has always been a national disgrace that those ghastly 60s benches and crappy concrete plant basins have been kept on top of the plinth, leading to the entrance of the national parliament building. A suitable home should also be found for the cut stone sentry boxes and the Victorian railings & piers.
Presumably though, nothing will be completed for Ireland’s hosting of the EU presidency next year, when all state institutions & the capital as a whole should be looking its best.
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