Spencer Dock Saga
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Wel,well Mr. Roche has been dropped in favour of Scott Tallon Walker….The Stock, Aiken and Waterman of Irish archiecture producing en masse the bland supreme, all grey, all low rise, the same detailing for all their conventional and safe schemes, nothing too radical or different.ZZZZZzzzzzzzz! Insomnia. Please will someone lace their coffees with LSD and the croanies in the DDDA…..they are not artists but civil servants masquerading as architects.The Dublin docks is assembling the most drabbest and featureless of modern architecture ….I only hope that I am proved wrong in the long run and we will have instead landmarks of high quality.
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That’s right Rory it was hardly a landmark of high quality…but I never said it was. The original Spencer Dock plan was overblown, overscaled and too corporate as we all know, but there was a slight hint of difference and optimism….now we may just get run of the mill offices typically found elsewhere throughout the city and suburban industrial estates. Scott Tallon & Walker are fine architects producing fine buildings ….Woodquay, City Bank,etc.. but looking at their portfolio especially their recent offerings, all their work looks the same ….no spark of difference or flair…. Richard Mier in a Catatonic state. It seem’s that with them having a monopoly in this area there won’t be even buildings to comment on or take note whether they be good or bad.
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I wish i has seen this topic before i had put in my pennys worth into the ‘changing attitudes’ discussion board.
The 2 buildings shown on the photo (Paul’s) look even squatter than i remember them.
Still, i think there is a good mix of colour used in the two buildings and, a bit of contrast colour-wise between them (variation been the spice of Life)!
In referece to Jas comments about Scott Tallon Walker and their buildings been ‘acceptable’ to planners; Maybe there should be more ’round table’ pre-planning dicussions between architect-planner-client concerning what is acceptable/welcome, each other’s visions for the site and area etc.etc.
Or am i just being naive?
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Actually with all the grey around phase 2 of the Ifsc makes me thing I am in a compacted version of Belfield.
On a serious note though, this is a pivitol site in the dublin Docklands and should be developed as something monumental, and not self effacing. Lets do something different. I loved the idea that Dunlow Ewart had for their Grand Canal site – but I dont know if that will go ahead given that they are selling that site and I don’t know if permission is given on it yet. I do worry that if Liam Carrol gets his paws on Dunlow Ewart that shite quality apartments (ha matchbox more like) on all their sites.
Rory W
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