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I think that, where agencies are concerned, they will fire out as many as possible as the consultants get paid a relative pittance and rely on commission to earn their wage. It’s a case of: throw enough shit at a wall and some of it will stick.
In my office we currently have 19 different nationalities and I have to say that, on balance, “overseas” staff are better skilled than their Irish peers.
The problem lies in the management system – or lack of – in place in many offices. Architects like myself with 10+ years of experience can be simultaneously running 5 major projects at different stages. The number of available staff to assist is not the issue. The problem, as you point out, is finding people who are able to think and act for themselves and who require only limited direction and advice. That is a difficult quality, however, to assess in an interview, either for recruitment consultant or Architect. 30 day trial periods might help but their is so much work out there that people don’t need to take that risk.
Anyway, good luck. Might e-mail you myself!
Whilst I see Boyle’s point, I think it is perhaps niaive to expect a major company not to maximise the potential of any site it possesses. I’ve never stayed in Jurys but I’m told that it’s outdated and desperately in need of a face lift. It would seem inevitable that any large scale renovation would involve shuttin gthe hotel anyway. Perhaps a hotel in Cork is not viable with more than 180 bedrooms, perhaps it is but the fact is that, if you jump into bed with a developer of OCP’s reputation, you can guarantee that the final plot ratio is as close to a max as possible.
On a related issue, I think Foster Place is one of the most attractive streets in Dublin – It’s almost an oasis of calm. I used to like Banking there – such a shame they moved to the Westin. Is the AIB bank shut down permanently or is there a plan for redevelopment internally?
Quote:Originally posted by lexington
*UPDATES*-> 21 objections have been raised against Riga Limited (O’Callaghan Properties/Jurys Doyle Group) development plans for Jury’s Hotel site on the Western Road. Of course the usual suspects were involved, An Taisce. After reading some of the grounds for objections, I have to say, some are laughable, but either way, Riga is going to have a tough ride through the planning process. I hope the proposal is successful, although my unease remains with relation to the residential element of the project.
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ref my earlier mail on this issue: Lexington, is Dan Boyle’s representation along these lines?
http://www.politics.ie/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=6066
Fair point?
Quote:Originally posted by Frank Taylor
Is there no room in architecture for humour? Not all buildings have to be beautiful or well proportioned or matched with their surroundings.However, would Dublin’s architecture not be more entertaining if the rules were relaxed to allow more comic structures like this?
What a good idea! Papa smurf could be made Chief Planning officer, the RDS scheme could be redesigned as a homage to Jack and the beanstalk, the AIB bank building annexed to the Magic Kingdom and Lansdowne road re-zoned for Frank Gehry’s latest aubergine inspired opus maximus. Why bother with college, style, taste and proportion? We could all qualify as architects simply by taking the boat through “it’s a small world after all”.
Originally posted by Rory W
Hmmm – turns out it belongs to one of the owners of Treasury Holdings – so which one has bad taste??John Ronan
I believe the rather raunchy new statue across the way was stored there until the Office building got PC
I was browsing the on-line planning section and noticed the 5 week period is up for Jurys and there were 21 submissions and 1 representation.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love it to win. Sure, it is architecture in the very essence of the term but I just think that it should, perhaps, be in a separate category. Would the original Nelson Column be described as architecture?
With respect to rejuvenating the street I think it’s got a long way to go. It is after all located in the middle of a – narrow – pedestrian crossing. It basically gives something to lean against while waiting for the buses and taxis to pass.
I think it is a fabulous monument with a great presence but that its presence is currently lacking at street level.
The spire might have been designed by an Architect, but is it really architecture? Sculpture perhaps….
Originally posted by phil
What are these buidings called? I only referred to them as the towers of darkness because it was the only name I had heard them being being called.canary dwarf????
Basically obscuration of St. Fin Barre’s. It mentions residents of Sunday’s Well but I would imagine that to be the least contentious view, given the height of it’s aspect. The Cathedral is really only visible from Lancaster Quay from the Jury’s bridge itself. Blowing smoke perhaps?
Thanks anyway Lexington. Treasury aren’t normally so circumspect
I see “Inside Cork” has taken up the anti-Jurys gauntlet. Seems inevitable an appeal will be made?
