julien
Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
the winning project, as usual, doesn’t comply with the competition brief which is really disappointing (height, gross area) because it was one of the difficulties of the brief (which was stupid).
Why does it always go this way?
They should have told us : here are the rules, but hey don’t bother….
Wasn’t 60 meters the maximun allowed height ? What about the 8,500 sqm minimum?
This option : ‘ only one tower and the podium’ wasn’t even possible according to those requirements and the stupid slenderness ratio.Once again, what are the rules for if the one who wins the competition doesn’t take them into account?
I am also unfamiliar with competitions in Ireland so i have got this question : Would dda have been allowed to only hire a developper and an architect for this project without doing a competition?
This is quite disappointing and i don’t see where the huge rethinking in tower buildings is.
DDA wrote that there will be a exhibition with the “shortlisted” (100 !), do you know where we can find the list? Have teams been informed if they are in or out?
the same question remains:
1) Why did they have to open the enveloppes for?
2) The enveloppes opened, whydoes pwhc need a document to identify us?
3) 6 months after submission, can there still be 500 competitors to choose from (shortlist)?
4) Has everybody been contacted by pwhc?
sorry for the monologue.
The main question for me right now is why asking to resubmit the presentation sheet?
Can’t they just send out all the sealed enveloppes to pwhc, choose someone, call pwhc saying we go for number xxx, pwhc opens the enveloppe and here is the winner.What they have done now is opening the letters, finding out who’s who. Doesn’t sound very anonymous competition friendly.
If what they are trying to get is credibility following the anonymity controversy , weird thinking.
THEY HAVE OPENED THE SEALED ENVELOPPES!the only proof of anonymity.
Please can someone explain me this?of course the above are just possiblities.
I just can’t imagine docklands hiring pwhc to make 500 phone calls. Pwhc doesn’t come cheap.6 months ago, this u2 competition had it all : client, site, open entry. As today … ? Can it be any worse? Let alone the Gerhy scandal, the time process or the program; they reportedly hired Pricewaterhouse coopers to contact some of the competitors. Here is why : they apparently lost the connexion between some of the sealed enveloppe and the presentation boards. How many is not known.
So, they sent out the problematic ‘sealed enveloppes’ out to be opened by pwhc (remenber they got 600*100 euros – 12000 = 48000 euros pocket money). Pwhc then contacted the competitors asking them to submit a email copy of their writting report.
Isn’t it that weird? Why not asking for an image to quickly link the competitors to the panels?
The second theory is much more appealing to the contacted ones, pwhc is gathering information for a larger report and as the competition process takes ages, they asked the docklands for a short list.
