School of Music
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ugly as sin is a definite architectural criticism. if the word beautiful can be applied to contrasting material, textures, compositions as a whole, then ugly can be used to mean the opposite.
ugly
Function: adjective
Definition: unattractive
Synonyms: animal, appalling, awful, bad-looking, beast, deformed, disfigured, dog, dogface, foul, frightful, grisly, gross, grotesque, grungy, haglike, hard-featured, hideous, homely, horrid, ill-favored, loathsome, misshapen, monstrous, pig, plain, plug, repelling, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, unbeautiful, uncomely, uninviting, unlovely, unprepossessing, unseemly, unsightly
Concept: uglinessmy particualar favourites are uninviting and unappealling. please don’t try to give english lessons here alan, we can all be speak good.
this building is not as good as it could be or should be. do you honestly believe there was a decent investment of time, energy, and creative enthusiasm in the creation of this scheme. ignoring the office it came from, or its importance as an urban structure, do you feel it could be better? or is this the pinnacle of architectural expression in your mind?
i also like dogface and haglike.
So… um… we don’t like the School so?!?
Still – it’ll prob not go ahead in this expensive design now – tough times etc… In their desperation to appease Southern voters (strike action taking place today) – the government will prob push through a more (ala Metro) streamlined facility – so we can all look forward to a nice Hawkins House prefab rendition.
A whole flotilla of salt and pepper shakers lining the lee.
Planning was granted recently for the site opposite the opera house, at the end of the christy ring bridge, for a 5 and 6 story apartment block. Muck. Damn you Keating.
Is that the red brick stylie one that was “inspired” by East Village, Douglas and the Georgian terrace further up the Quay? What is being built where the orange building is (see below). It’s not THAT bad – it could be alot worse (i.e. nearly every single apartment development the length of the Dublin Quays)
Or the monstrous silver thing adjacent in this picture – I thought that got rejected.
Inspired my ass. They designed the east village for god sake! self-inspiration? odd. whats the think on the watergold building at the end of the east village? its the yellow stone one with green glass and a funny roof line.
wow. never saw that silver thingy. uuugly. That look worked well on the siemens building, possibly because of its industrial and dockland location, and it proximity to the station, but its not too nice down by the river.
Watergold is probably the most schizofrenic (unintentionally I imagine) building in Cork. A complete mess. It would have been a really good opportunity to provide some unity to lands around (which all will be developed) and help start off the possibility of a new street side progressing back to the main village. Instead they’ve merely accentuated Douglas’ reputation as “little america”!!! Known as the Addam’s Family House in some local circles.
That said – the apartments inside are supposed to be fabulous – the view on either side discounted!
They are. The offices are pretty cushty too. Who wouldn’t want to look at the douglas court carpark all day?
that silver thing is an older application which was refused because of two existing buildings on the quayside which were to be demolished, a new application has been submitted (or is close to), which retains these two existing buildings.
Hmmm – I have a bad feeling about the future of Lavitt’s quay and Popes Qy – there are too many application refusals because of the proposed demolitions of older not really noteworthy buildings – so the City Council propose to retain the facades and developments go ahead at the exact same scale with these ludicrous out of scale facades. Example: Owen O’Callaghan and TCH buildings going on opposite side – these huge blocks reaching six stories dwarfing some two story facade. I’m all in favour of retention – but the line has to be drawn somewhere. In this case it really would be better to clear the site, or not proceed at all.
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