Craig Davis
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It is real- check link
http://www.globalproperties.ie/resi…atergold_25.htmlexington, do you really like this or are you just trying to get a reaction out of people?
I’m no fan myself but I do admire the audacity of the developer in achieving so much extra floor area in the ‘roof space’. It’s a ploy that planners too often go along with i.e. “you won’t get permission for a two-storey house here, but a dormer bungalow, ah sure that’s totally different go ahead there’s plenty of them around here…”.
I think the EBS should have replica facades built too…
I think to do this would be architecturally dishonest. Sure they may look crap; but these buildings are a reflection (no pun intended) of the zeitgeist. I thought contemporary attitudes on conservation had moved on from this way of treating modern infill projects. This issue of replica façadism can easily become shrouded in subjectivity i.e. which facade do you replace it with; a copy of one of its neighbours, the previous building that stood on the site, or the one before if that was of architectural significance etc.
Why make them appear like something they’re not? Dublin City planners ruined many a streetscape in the city centre by forcing pastiche facades on any new-build.
It’s a shame the originals were demolished- but this is in the past, and our energies could be better deployed, rather than trying to recreate a streetscape that has long since passed.
Instead of focusing on one or two streets in the city centre (as prominent as they are), we should try to concentrate more on the quality of design of the hundreds of additional streets being constructed every year i.e. in suburban housing estates full of monotonous repetitive housing units, which is where most of us now live and spent most of our time.It’s surely a contemporary take on the house on the hill from Hitchcock’s classic; Psycho!
Despite the curtain wall glazing this is actually an apartment block, which affords a small level of credibility to the mansard roof. Check out description at following:
http://www.globalproperties.ie/resid_city_data/Watergold_25.htmI think this could be best described as unintentionally post-modern. However I don’t imagine a particular architectural style was the ‘architects’ primary concern here.
Nice photo Paul!
That’s the Tower Building by Shay Cleary Architects. It was completed in 2002 and is owned by Treasury Holdings.
A 19th-century building converted, along with additions to office use. At one stage they were going to have it as an apartment block due to the slump in the office market. Don’t know if it’s occupied yet though.
Here’s a link to it on Treasury’s website:
http://www.treasuryholdings.com/Investment/project_detail.asp?id=18&category=Office&cat=3
club owners pocket cash and buy a yacht…. ground share occurs ad infinitum….
I wonder where we’ve seen that before?!! Although it looks like they’re all at ground redevelopment, bar Shamrock Rovers!
There are “plans by Albion Properties to totally (re)develop the shopping centre, construct residential apartment blocks up to nine storeys in height and provide a new 400-seater spectator stand at Dalymount Park football stadium.â€
http://www.northsidepeople.ie/index.php?option=news&task=viewarticle&sid=461There’s a model of the proposal in the Civic Offices foyer. I only had a quick look at it, but I’ve been left with the distinct impression that it’s not much better than what’s there already. The sole architectural element that I remember vividly was the use of dark-tinted glazing similar to the over-scaled piece of work coming to completion on Capel Street.
No need to fear though; the existing Brutalist-style office block won’t be touched!
There was no architect’s name attached to the model, always reassuring!
