Stephenson – poacher turned gamekeeper?
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Yeah Fin, maybe it’s a bit like the way Alvy (Woody Allen) describes California when he goes there during Annie Hall:
“Yeah, the architecture is really consistent,
isn’t it? French next to Spanish, next to Tudor, next to Japanese.â€Quote “I still love the way in which the whole green is such a hotch-botch of buildings”
It always was there were 18 individual buildings between the College of Surgeons and Rices Bar (the entrance to the Stephens Green SC)
There were 143 individual buildings on the Green that up to 1960 would have changed sporadically due to accidents such as fires.
With the exception of the Lisney building at No 25 every addition since 1960 is crap.
With particular reference to
62-65 The Bank of Scotland offices
66-68 Hainault House
69-71 The Dept of JusticeRussell House (KPMG)
The Ardilaun Centre Eircom Blocks A +B
57-59 The Pastiche Irish Permanant HQ
44-45 The Corner of Hume St (Ivor Fitz)
26 Compustore
15-18 Stephen Court (Anglo-Irish)
An unmitaged disaster of crap
You forgot the shopping centre. I also think you are being a bit harsh on Stephens Court:)
Agreed – a very subtle and muted affair, Probably the only building in the city from that decade that took into consideration it’s surroundings.
Also agree about Compustore – as far as I remember Frank McDonald and others raved over this building, why is beyond me as they look woeful in that white.
I think Lisney next door used to be green but was also painted white – they stand out like sore thumbs.
The Ardilaun Centre isn’t that bad, it’s the best brick built building from the 80s in the city.All of the modern Georgians are rubbish, esp the one at the Leeson St corner, the bricks are terrible, the windows & stonework are terrible, and its ‘dining room’ window would be too small for an en suite toilet…
http://www.entertainment.scotsman.com/visual/reviews_specific.cfm?id=4554
Edinburgh’s idea of contemporary architecture……….think you’ve got one just like it in Dublin, Diaspora
Thats a good building, I prefer the Dublin one because it is simpler. I find the article interesting and the opinions refreshingly diverse.
It is only a pity that the newspaper isn’t avialable here, since the solitary ‘Scotsman’ reader dissapeared last year giving a total Irish circulation figure of 0
Could’nt help it, she chucked me out………… Jeez Diaspora you really do know everything
Far from knowing everything it was in the advertising & marketing section of the Irish Times, it struck me.
One meets many tams here and if the paddy trend is anything to go by it is hard to grasp as one sees Irish newspapers in most airports and it would not be uncommon to see five or six Irish times being read in a heathrow or Schipol departure lounge.
Whats the story with the Scots, they don’t build modern buildings because they are too conservative and they don’t read the Scotsman abroad because they are too progressive?
Well…….as I’ve told you before, Edinburgh is’nt really Scotland. Kinda more like Brigadoon with lawyers.
Glasgow has all the progressive stuff
It may be some consolation to know that only one copy of the Irish Times gets delivered here. Wonder to who? ………….”coming dear”
Originally posted by Graham Hickey
The Ardilaun Centre isn’t that bad, it’s the best brick built building from the 80s in the city.
which building is that Graham?
It’s Eircom, on the corner of Cuffe St, or as some joker who meddled with the sign prefers, CUFFF St.
I think it’s a clean, neat and streamlined building, accounting for the materials in the area, whilst not decending into pastiche or smothering sympathy – if that makes sense.Although it could do without the railings along the top, that protect top brass entertaining business guests with views of the city over espressos, from falling over the edge.
Got you now. I know the one you are talking about, thanks
Phil
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