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I was at the Heneghan Peng lecture in Limerick last night and i must say i was awestruck.
The Pyramids scheme is amazing both in its vastness and also in the way it achieves some of ther things you spoke about giving space back to the city.
Their scheme for Naas achieves some of the same things on a smaller scale.
VERY IMPRESSIVE
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The building which blew me away when I visited it was Ronchamp.
But my favourite work of architecture is parc de la villette and something that I always return to for inspiration.
In it Tschumi posits an open undetermined architecture, a frameworkof posibilities that will grow and change over the years while retaining the character and overall coherence of a design.
I often play with the idea that it contains a clue as to how housing estates could be laid out. Allowing for the enevitable change as people add porches extension rather than throwing up our hands in horror as our designs are “compromised”Gramsci
