St. Anne’s Square, Belfast
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March 25, 2008 at 11:49 pm #709926Paul ClerkinKeymaster
Creating a new civic space, sadly going down an unfortunate architectural route –
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March 26, 2008 at 12:58 am #799878AnonymousInactive
I’m finding it difficult to orientate myself from those plans, the OMAC arts centre looks a bit promising, the rest is twee crap…..I guess they’re trying to insert some historical style architecture (blah) because so much was bombed?
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March 26, 2008 at 7:50 am #799879AnonymousInactive
@Starch wrote:
I’m finding it difficult to orientate myself from those plans, the OMAC arts centre looks a bit promising, the rest is twee crap…..I guess they’re trying to insert some historical style architecture (blah) because so much was bombed?
much of High Street and the area around St Annes was effectively flattened by the Luftwaffe. A lot of the building werent actaully rebuilt post war and what was was decidely shoddy
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March 26, 2008 at 1:49 pm #799880AnonymousInactive
And it is the Prod cathedral, so it has to have a grand setting; who’s the statue of? The Big Man or some other Bold Orange Hero (cf Stormont)?
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March 26, 2008 at 1:59 pm #799881Paul ClerkinKeymaster
Probably an Anthony Gormley – he’s the new Calatrava 😉
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August 6, 2008 at 3:36 pm #799882AnonymousInactive
….just a small little thumbnail of the front entrance to Hackett and Hall’s new arts centre….
http://www.thomasdevlin.com/blog/uploads/web_Slide23.serendipityThumb.jpg
man it’s hard to find information on these projects!
and to balance it out….here’s some muck
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August 7, 2008 at 12:52 pm #799883AnonymousInactive
Great opportunity, poorly executed.
http://www.wdr-rt-taggart.com/projects_info.php?building_id=17&image_id=55&cat_id=9 -
September 9, 2008 at 7:13 pm #799884AnonymousInactive
This may be the wrong thread, but this caught my eye when I was up north on the weekend and it’s beside St Anne’s Cathedral so that’s got to be close enough.
This strikes me as a decent civic building and a nice piece of contemporary university architecture. Maybe the (Goldsmith Hall type) hermetically sealed glass bridge is a bit unecessary, but otherwise it’s clean and reasonably crisp.
I thought the University of Ulster was in Colraine.
I agree with other commentators, the good bits of Belfast are very good, but the bad bits, . . . my god!
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September 15, 2008 at 12:16 pm #799885AnonymousInactive
that’s the art school of the university of Ulster…..also it’s the home of the new school of architecture which started a couple of years ago….
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September 30, 2008 at 2:18 pm #799886AnonymousInactive
The university of ulster is spread over four Campus sites in Derry, York st Belfast, Jordanstown and Colraine. The building pictured above is actualy a Cosmetic refit of the old 60s internationalist building.
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September 30, 2008 at 2:23 pm #799887Paul ClerkinKeymaster
I thought the old school of art was taller no?
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March 24, 2009 at 12:42 am #799888AnonymousInactive
nope i watched them remove the old cladding and replace it with the stone and glass, the interoir was gutted while the building was still in use. The glass bridge existed before the cosmetic refit
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March 24, 2009 at 12:43 am #799889AnonymousInactive
anybody got a photo pre facelift?
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March 24, 2009 at 1:24 am #799890Paul ClerkinKeymaster
must have just seemed taller to me when I did my interview there 20 odd years ago…
it’s easy to impress hicks from the country
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March 25, 2009 at 11:23 am #799891AnonymousInactive
I came up from the sticks in 1997 but never even got to the interview I met a girl and drank cans in the botanic gardens thats why I ended up ay NCAD, the choices one makes :confused:
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July 22, 2010 at 2:30 pm #799892Paul ClerkinKeymaster
The shortlist has been announced for the Carbuncle Cup, BD’s award for the ugliest building in the UK completed in the last 12 months. Despite a flurry of nominations for buildings in Ireland, only one made the final cut. Designed by WDR & RT Taggart in Belfast, St Anne’s Square was called a “neo-classical, pastiche mess†by one contributor. The £100m leisure, commercial and residential development is in the city’s Cathedral Quarter in a major site of regeneration in Belfast.
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July 23, 2010 at 12:50 pm #799893AnonymousInactive
@Paul Clerkin wrote:
The shortlist has been announced for the Carbuncle Cup, BD’s award for the ugliest building in the UK completed in the last 12 months. Despite a flurry of nominations for buildings in Ireland, only one made the final cut. Designed by WDR & RT Taggart in Belfast, St Anne’s Square was called a “neo-classical, pastiche mess†by one contributor. The £100m leisure, commercial and residential development is in the city’s Cathedral Quarter in a major site of regeneration in Belfast.
it’s not as if they didn’t know what they would get
http://www.wdr-rt-taggart.com/HTML/Architecture/Archi.html
consistently the worst design firm in NI, if not the UK, if not the cosmos
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July 23, 2010 at 1:01 pm #799894Paul ClerkinKeymaster
but but
The name WDR & RT Taggart is synonymous with design quality in architecture, underpinned by commercial understanding and cultural sensitivity.
Our approach is distinctive in providing Clients with choice of style, consistently producing bespoke and uplifting designs.
Central to all of our projects are functionality, beauty and sustainability.
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July 23, 2010 at 1:11 pm #799895AnonymousInactive
poor Hackett Hall McKnight’s Metropolitan Arts Centre stuck in the middle of THAT
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July 23, 2010 at 2:11 pm #799896AnonymousInactive
@Paul Clerkin wrote:
but but
The name WDR & RT Taggart is synonymous with design quality in architecture, underpinned by commercial understanding and cultural sensitivity.
Our approach is distinctive in providing Clients with choice of style, consistently producing bespoke and uplifting designs.
Central to all of our projects are functionality, beauty and sustainability.
and we’re really, really cheap. no, really cheap. did we mention we’re cheap?
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