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The Glucksman Recovery Fund
http://www.glucksman.org/support.htmlHeres a list of what will be the top donors I supect
RIAI Best Public Building in Ireland 2005
RIBA 2005 award winner European category
2005 Project of the Year, UK Buildings Services Awards
Sustainable Energy Ireland award
Best Modern Building in an Irish City 2005
UK Civic Trust Award 2005
Shortlisted, 2005 Stirling Prize
One of the 1001 Buildings you must see before you die (or before the river floods again)I used to think “Architecture – How Genius disfigured a practical art. “
now Im just thinking “Architeture – How Stupidity disfigured a practical art”I see the glucksmann gallery storeroom got flooded destroying alot of the art in storage.
Handy that to have a subterranean storeroom in a building next to a river. :D, and the canteen got a battering too.
Thanksfully the ARt that is that building has survived, must have been the millions spent on it that saved its edifice, maybe more should have spent on the structure .I know its the builders fault, those bloody shuttering carpenters always messing up the deign flaws, structural indequacies of Irelands great raft of iconic CT buildings.
im not sure what all the fuss is about as the near-finished article albeit without the top fringe and deep window reveal looks as BAD as the original renders and graphics suggested it would look.
Hands up all those who couldnt see that this was a monstrosity in the making.
Your probably the same people who think that Madonna really does look that good at 50 in her current cover shot on this months Vogue…
This is hilarious , reading all the old posts of everyone wetting themselves at the thought of a starchitect gracing our shores with his latest creation. No matter what stone was going to be used it was always always going to look modular, dated and bland. Take a bus around the periherique in Paris and you will see a hundred of these same structures, low cost housing, The best is yet to come, Im actually looking forward to the total completion of the whole development including Libeskinds shoe box , just to see how really bad something of this scale and with this much potential can actually come to realisation, having being backed to the hilt by the architectural establishment …this is very very funny stuff.@paul h wrote:
LOL!! 😀 So your reasonably satisfied with where your U.S taxes go?
A motorway versus hmmmm, well i think you know.off topic but… yep Im okay about my US taxes being spent in Shannon duty free isnt that were all the ‘neutral’ US soldiers stop off on their way to you know where.
The decimation of Tara is a scandalous act perpetuated by those in power and those who keep them there all of which are fumbling in the greasy till…
In the sixth century A.D. because of a infraction by the high kings against the emerging clergy , St Ruadan placed a curse upon Tara ‘ desolete be Tara for ever and ever’ , and a motorway is about as desolete as you can get. A very sad day indeed for a once proud Celtic race, we are no longer the race that harboured culture and the arts at a time of intellectual darkness across Europe. Ah well it was good while it lasted.Okay the final nail in the coffin … jaysus what a joke …. I reckon Monty Python are behind the whole show here ….
Opening of historic Boyne centre may be one of Taoiseach’s last official acts
One of the last official acts of the departing Taoiseach may be to formally open the historic Battle of the Boyne site in Co. Louth.
Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern said today he thinks it would be fitting that the opening be conducted by the Taoiseach and the Northern Ireland First Minister Ian Paisley.
A €25 million restoration project, featuring a visitor centre, is due to be opened at the site on the banks of the River Boyne in coming weeks.
The Protestant King William III defeated the Catholic King James II at the location in 1690 – an event celebrated every year in dozens of Orange Order parades across Northern Ireland.
http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/politics/opening-of-historic-boyne-centre-may-be-one-of-taoiseachs-last-official-acts-1341015.htmlAnd this at the same time we are paying 69,000 euro an acre to build a motorway thru our own ancient heritage …
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/landowners-secure-8364120m-windfall-from-controversial-m3-1340390.htmlThankfully I just did my US taxes and dont have to fund any of this crap .
@Sue wrote:
so Rath Lugh, which nobody in Ireland had ever heard about before Squirt climbed into a hole under it, is now a “key portion” of our “great archeological inheritance”? I think not.
Workmen, proceed
Sue, alot of archaeology is about discovering something which we dont already know .
Plenty people knew of Rath Lugh, and felt it was of significance even ‘great’ significance but had not yet been fully examined. Alot has come to light because of the M3 work and has been hastened into the public domain.The logic of your arguement implies because no one knew there was a Viking longship 30 feet below the surface at Woodquay then that developemt should not have been impeeded in any form or put another way
if the Sphinx was still covered in sand and the Egyptian gvt decided to build a city in that location but subsequently unearthed the head of this magnificent monument, then you would argue that the workmen should not be halted because noone knew it was there before the work started.
