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@missarchi wrote:
So this means that architects will now be going to the green st to defend high court appeals?
Not necessarily
Given that the new courthouse is set aside for criminals,@GrahamH wrote:
That is a most pleasing massing of forms and materials with an appropriate scale. Why can’t we have more of this when it comes to urban infill down in the city? Very nice……………….
Alas, this sums it up for me too. Chic and attractive, but little of the gravitas one would expect of the preeminent public building of our times in the city, and immediate descendant of the Four Courts….
Very diplomatic !
@GrahamH wrote:
Anyone care to guess where this curious little chappie resides?
He’s in the city centre, and most unusually, the only animal carving on the entire dressed stone building.
This one is driving me nuts.
I still think its in the Lower O’Connoll St / Westmoreland St area.
Possibly over an ATM machine or somesuch ????????????@Andrew Duffy wrote:
You know Harcourt Street is predominantly pastiche and facade retentions, yes?
.Yes, and in this case a pastiche would have been far more agreeable than the resulting disaster.
@photopol wrote:
Global Citizen
I’m not familiar with the term onion tower. Can you specify?
This windmill…
I mistakenly referred to it as a chimney earlier.@photopol wrote:
Gunter
I’m a great one for procedures myself. Alternative is anarchy.How do I know when a new set can be started? I guess I was a bit overenthusiastic, trying to figure out the mechanics of the site and flying through past posts checking what had already been covered.
😮The floor is all yours now Photopol.:)
I’d hate to see an outbreak of anarchy here:eek:
And welcome to the forum.Oh by the way, I reckon your second image is the top of the onion tower in The Liberties.
AKA St Patricks Tower. A very idiosyncratic building. I love it. There is something endearingly questionable about Dublin’s love of chimneys. Nobody wants Poolbeg knocked down. Smithfield is (or was) a viewing platform. And this onion tower is one of the best loved structures in the city.I hope I’m right now:confused:
@GrahamH wrote:
The limestone pediment is clearly a flourish atop a Victorian commercial building of some kind, with a large limestone chimney stack to the rear – Lower Grafton Street or somesuch.
Not quit commercial and not quite right with the location (almost):rolleyes: but I have to allow it.
Well done again Graham.This is actually one of my favourite buildings in Dublin.
gunter wrote:Good God Gunter 🙂
Sorry………..
I love a little alliteration:oWaltons – a candidate to the shopfront thread perhaps ?
@GrahamH wrote:
The latter piece of tat is from the larger piece of tat on Harcourt Street – the new infill building. Shocking stuff.
Well done Graham.
I only saw it for the first time last Saturday when I took these photos and its presence in such a beautiful street fills me with a mixture of anger and disappointment. Its a piece of vandalism that wouldn’t be allowed in the suburbs of Calcutta. Yet our planners deem it appropriate in an overtly visible location in the georgian core of Dublin. How the hell………? I’m straying a bit off topic here. But looking at the photo below, most people will understand why.
Anyway – A rant for another thread perhaps.@Frank Taylor wrote:
4th picture is Dunnes HQ in Upper Stephen Street
Yep, or the old Dunlop factory………..
@StephenC wrote:
Casino Marino lion
Nope, they’re all between the canals.
Paul is right about the first one.
I thought it would be the toughest. I’m impressed !
Totally off topic here but I have to get this off my chest.
THIERRY HENRY IS A CHEATING BOLLOX. :mad::mad::mad:
Now – Back to seat colours.
Could they not compromise ? Rugby emblem on one side with the soccer one on the other. Like the San Siro in Milan where the two major soccer clubs in that city share the ground. And on reflection, would Aviva not insist on their corporate logo being displayed in the seating arrangements ?
However, while it makes no difference when there is a capacity crowd in attendance, I would prefer if the seating colour complemented the rest of the structure. Bright multicoloured seats would do nothing for the sleek silver lines of the rest of the stadium. Croke Park have done well in this regard. The pale blue and grey seats there blend in easly with the overall appearance of the arena, (and indeed, the prevailing skies overhead). Decisions concerning colour are all the more important in open ended (Horse shoe shaped) stadia, which for all intents…. both Croker and Lansdowne are, given the size Hill 16 and the Havelock Square ends respectively.
