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I guess to build a station you have to know where it is to go. This metro changes route more often than a motorcycle courier, overground, underground via the Airport, maybe even Athlone, – to serve Mary O’Rourke’s constituency (soon to be a close in Dublin suburb).So to take on the job you would have to take on that risk of being messed about.
Given the quality of public commissions, and this may be PFI developed, I would also doubt it but then CIE do have a better record than others.
Not a lot to see in some of those places of particular interest. Be sure to visit the Barry Byrne church and the Honan Chapel in Cork.
Art deco sites are on http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Salon/6941/deco1.htm
I think it was Daithi Hanly who has the facade in his garden.
Yes there were plans to build two theatres for the Abbey with stages back to back, on an expanded site running out to the river. A removable wall would have allowed both to join together with the audience at either end. However site accumulating skills were not as developed then as they are now.
Just heard that Sile De Valera, of the well known family, is considering three options relating to the Abbey Theatre.
Option one – minor refurbish
Option two – new theatre on a green field site.Option three- demolish and rebuild on the same site.
It is said that she favours the latter!. Well that takes the biscuit as the site is too restrictive. Poor old Michael Scott, who fought Ernest Blyth to find that he would not move from the present site, leading to the present design which is so constricted. First the Ritz Cinema goes, next the Abbey. And Scott was an Abbey actor too.Yes, good advice.
Look out for some of the supporting literature in the bookshop, two booklets at £2.99 each nice to have.I am just finished Frank Mc Donalds latest and can recommend it, even though much has appeared elswhere and he needs a sub-editor to take out the “asides”. Good value for £15 in pb.
Well worth a read is Sean Rothery’s
Ireland and the New Architecture, if you have not read it already.Of course if anything has to be done to Liberty Hall we should ensure that the height is raised to exceed County Hall as that would really annoy the Leesiders.
And while we are in the area is not that walk down from the O’Connell Bridge a really good example of what is the problem with Dublin. Closed buildings, tawdry shops, apparently abandoned buses etc.
Yes
It is fairly strange, – even a provocative post by me after several months silence on this part of the board got no responses. The architecture forum has a few regulars but the traffic is not great there earlier. Of course we were all watching “Nation Building” for the last seven weeks so we might see more life now.
Well now it is over a final reflection – not worth watching.
Too many stomach churning graphics, too many talking heads and above all little film of buildings. After all they dont move in real life and there is no reason for not fiming them as static objects. How often did we see some of the clips 5/6 times for the “Shannon road trip sequence”?
Yes a better episode but
– why did we hear little or nothing of the commitment to flats which was unique to Dublin corporation in the 1930’s, a serious effort to avoid sprawl.
– no mention of the huge housing programme initiated by the first Fianna Fail government.
– no mention that there was little or no housing control until the 1960’s.
– no real mention of (any of) the very questionable planning decisions (brown envelopes?)
– no mention of the Section 4’s
The Ford Foundation in NYC by Roche is now within easy reach of many with low transatlantic fares. That is a good building, if very generous with space.
Now the thing in the Docks is another thing entirely. So my suggestion is go to New York for the conferences, use the Javits Centre there, admire the Ford and leave the docks for something else, a little more in scale.
P.S. There is a perfectly good Conference Centre in the Waterfront Hall in Belfast, within easy reach, if Ireland wants a conference centre.
OK just a little pedantry here –
The Opera House is “La Fenice” and the Tower was not rebuilt exactly !Sorry, bad day at the office.
Yes – the last episode was even worse than usual. Even my normally tolerant wife is beginning to resent me watching it now.
And what the hell is this wonderful spirit of place that a cold damp two room cabin (one reserved for the pig) is supposed to symbolise? A bit late to bring Corbu to Donegal now, or can nothing else be found in rural Ireland that does not have PVC windows and a porch.
The third episode was very repetitive,
very repetitive,
very repetitive.While we had scrolling graphics in episode one, we had talking heads in episode three. No only that but very little architecture. Only good thing was the reference to Eileen Grey ,and they could not produce even a photo of E1027
