Fachylacha
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Bord Iascaigh Mhara offices in Dún Laoghaire and the apartments next door.
Dún Laoghaire Shopping Centre.
The new Dún Laoghaire Pavilion.On the other hand the modern extension to the Town Hall is an amazing combination of a contemporary design with an older building that for some reason works perfectly.
You are wrong about the outer corridors being only downstairs – they are upstairs on two and a half sides of the building, leaving many of the offices within them with no natural light.
I agree with the criticism of the News Set but the new Late Late set is even worse.
I think the most important thing for an architect to do is to design a building for the people who work in it, although ideally he or she would also achieve a building that aesthetcially pleasing to non-occupants. In terms of a building for people, the new TV building wins hands down, over the old one.
The main RTE TV studio building is hated by those who work in it. I was unfortunate enough to work in it for a few years and it is a sick building – parts of it are either too hot or too cold, the air conditioning is crap in places and there is no access to natural fresha air – no openable windows. Many of the rooms have no windows, whearas many of the corridors run alongside the windows – when the other way around would be much more humane for those who work there. This was not a building designed with people in mind. At least in the Radio Centre the offices are near the windows and have natural light and the corridors are nearer the centre of the building. Ditto the new TV building which also has widows which can be opened and a naturally lit airy central atrium which gives the building a nice human focus where people can gather and drink coffee. It is also a less monotonous drab design than the old TV building, which doen’t really offer the eye much relief or variety.
