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Imagine living someplace like America though, where everyplace is only as old as Tallaght? Reading the article I was struck very much by the way, they profiled the incomes of the residents, and how the city or town was only founded in the 1920s! At least Tallaght may have been a farm land or village or something long before 1920. Talking about anchor projects;
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-casino25jan25,1,3760846.story?coll=la-headlines-california
America is a strange place where you have the juxtaposition of ancient tribes of Indians and brand new mass scale development.
Hoping to transform the city into a vast entertainment district, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians is seeking permission to turn a square-mile portion of the downtown core into a multibillion-dollar complex featuring high-rises, shopping malls, restaurants, a theme park and a second casino.
what we need here in Dublin is people like the ‘Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians’.
I wonder will they being doing something like this for Tallaght and LUAS someday soon?
http://policy.rutgers.edu/vtc/tod/transitvillages.htm
I think Tallaght might become a bit like Galway or LImerick in future – a relocation habitat.
http://www.expansionmanagement.com/smo/newsviewer/default.asp?cmd=articledetail&articleid=15964
In America, the traditional place for industry was in the north and the southern states were poor in comparison. Nowadays places like Atlanta (Olympics fame) are becoming attractive for company HQ relocation. Parts of Ireland has been a bit like that for a few years now.
Notice the ‘more details’ bit down at the end, where each city or area, has a web site, a bit like the Corporation/council web sites here, detailing exactly what the area has to offer in terms of services, strategic qualities etc, etc.
http://www.cgarchitect.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=000061;p=2#000017
What do you think?
Urban decay or poor urban regeneration – it seems to me that Dublin provided a very ideal set of conditions for very poor mass-scale urban regeneration in the past couple of years.
One of the things that I liked about the LUAS Fluid Spaces book by UCD students was that for once, it looked as if someone was thinking about the future of the city, rather than the quick turnover.
Not that all development isn’t designed to make a turnover… I mean, I think of Dublin, Belfast, Limerick, Cork, Waterford and any big port cities – this change of land use thing is a very interesting urban debate – all over the world in fact, post industrial etc, etc, etc.
It would be interesting to think of how many small semi-industrial uses existed in areas around Smithfield and Temple Bar up until the eighties.
I mean, Guinness is just the very last tail end of that and perhaps the containerisation down below – what will happen when you take away all those uses, what has happened…. I think that really is a story about an east/west access and the river.
That unique character-enhancing factor that has shaped many cities.
WOW, wow, wow. .. long time since we had a real good arch exhibition here I think, correct me If I am wrong. I haven’t followed this scene that much in quite a while.
The one with Edinburgh and Irish young archs awhile back now, was memorable.
Of course the ones to accompany the irish arch monographs too.
Originally posted by shadow
By the way the HengPeng illustration is particularly crude with poor attempt to resolve the photoshop photo pasteup at the base.It is nice to see a baddie shoved in now and again, it is more human. . .
Not everything should come up to spanking new and best Bolton Street/Queens/UCD best CADCO standards.
🙂
Be a very strange world if it did.
The best visualisation isn’t the best visualisation – it is the ‘good enough’ visualisation – the same one that took 4 hours instead of 4 weeks, cost nothing and still got some of the point across.
What has happened to people nowadays, because freehand rendering has gone.
Everything has to be paid professional nowadays…. the most of that being done by Phillipinos in sweat shops now, under cutting prices over here. THey are brilliant at that in Asia – it is all the hours they spend glued to playstations.
Nasty, old world the CG visualisation thing is getting.
No, I was dragged out to UCD for an open day about doing an Arts degree at nightime – I guess sometimes, relationships require a certain level of commitment eh? 🙂
excellent guide if you ever wish to visit Manhattan, and get to know the place a little bit better.
Info on Brooklyn
http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/landuse/20040119/12/841
Love the name of that paper, it is so super hero!
Check out the linked master plan too:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/dwnbklyn2/dwnbklynintro1.html
The shuttle systems done by Creative are definitely starting to make an appearance here too, along with ones by Asus and MSI.
I agree, they are a nice solution.
BTW, here is a pic of the G5 mobo – you possibly will not recognise it as a mobo even, compared to most ATX layouts.
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x?q=Y&a=tpc&s=50009562&f=8300945231&m=9080959175&p=23
what about black polonecks and flourescent outerwear? 🙂
One could do something really Sci-Fi and Blade Runner looking.
I know, that in Trinity they appreciate eccentric bunches of flourescent clad architect types walking around, like some kind of fashion week statement or something.
But what still doesn’t make sense, is that fact, that no construction site is where the site visit it. I have no probs bringing that stuff, but really, if it isn’t needed. . . why carry it around town!
One would look pretty silly.
Meet at podium of the Berkeley Library @ 10:45 – 11.00 on 24th January. Bring hard hat, site boots and his visibility vest. Do not enter the building until representative from McCullough Mulvin has arrived.
Still confused. ?????
Is that gear necessary now, for some insurance reason or something?
I was walking past the Hairy Lemon pub last night toward St. Stephens Green, when I passed out some nice looking hair saloon, with a cool optical illusion. Really a classic looking bauhaus type of concept really well executed and very tasteful indeed. Unexpected though, on a narrow Dublin street.
Drop into Compustore opposite the Shelbourne and have a closer look so! Really blow your head off! 🙂
My post here, and the other gareth posts are about something in computing, to do with flexibility – the common PC is a very flexible beast. And systems like the MAC which are one step away from being a sealed unit like a Playstation or something.
http://www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=105066134
My point is that, sealed boxes, can be designed to look a lot better – than flexible engineering concepts like the common PC. If you were to put a window on most PCs, the insides would not look very pretty at all.
It strikes me too, that Bauhaus and ‘God is in the details’, approach in architecture may not be the most flexible, even though the eventual package might look very spectacular. The average joe house that is built today, is a very flexible, but nonetheless messy kind of a package. It allows you to create a range of products in a varied price range.
What architects would normally aspire to is, to have a certain size of budget and just go for something really, really classic looking. But you possibly will not be able to adjust it, copy it or imitate it, as you do bog standard design templates, such as the common PC.
An interesting post about chaos theorey here;
http://www.cgarchitect.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=000061;p=1#000010
