Red Brick
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There is one thing, above all else, that really inspires in me a hatred of the mediocrity of new architecture in this country. What in god’s name is it with all the red brick crap being built in this country. Everywhere you go, another red brick monstrosity blights the countryside. Obviously, somewhere along the line, the cretins who design buildings in this country failed to notice that the only reason georgian buildings look like anything more than red boxes is that they have some interesting features, like doorways, windows, and iron railings. When you deprive a building of these features, you have a pile of sick. What’s so shameful is that huge amounts of the development in this country in recent years is in this utterly bland and tasteless material, meaning that, for example, every building built in Limerick recently will almost certainly be pulled down within 20 years. It’s shameful. If there are any architects reading this: learn how to design buildings for a change. God, it makes me so angry. Is there any imagination in this country at all? Anybody?
I’d have to disagree with you there, i reckon the amount of red brick being used in the last 5/10 years has decreased greatly! I was down in Limerick around christmas time and i cant even recall seeing any buildings with red brick.
Maybe i was in a different part of the cityclearly. How about the entire dock road for starters.
and all that muck at the top of william street
Ah well as i said i was last down in Limerick at christmas and only briefly at that but you cant say-
“What in god’s name is it with all the red brick crap being built in this country. Everywhere you go, another red brick monstrosity blights the countryside.”
when refering to one part of Limerick citythey’re everywhere in limerick, cork, galway, and all over dublin too. I’m not implying they occupy every available piece of the spacetime continuum
We are used to seeing red brick with the patina of age so new red brick buildings are going to look strange at first but may improve in 30 years. And yes if there is no adornment to a brick building it risks the Abbey theatre effect – the repetitive pattern of the bricks becomes the most prominent feature of the building. Depressing and oppressive.
Georgian buildings have more than their adornments to make them interesting, they have a pattern of varying floor heights to reflect the importance of the floors and an amount of variation between individual buildings in the same terrace.
the georgian buildings in limerick don’t vary much in height and they still look good.
there’s no way any of those new buildings are going to look good in thirty years, especially given all the green plastic and ikea furniture nailed to the side of them, and the white pvc etc.
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