kburns
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Don’t know much about the height of the neighbouring buildings not being portrayed properly in the computer image but where the hell did all the trees come from?
[This message has been edited by kburns (edited 30 January 2001).]
Must put the trainspotter’s anorak on here- East Wing Kilmainham Gaol- John Mc Curdy was the architect, not Mc Cauley. Also did the refurbishment & present facade of the Shelbourne Hotel.
On the subject of your campaign ever thought that there might be modern archeology around the proposed blocks? Before Neslte- and probably way before that again- the house of the govenor of the Gaol stood there. There may be a tunnel running under the road way connecting with the prison.
I do agree though that you should show a few images of what’s proposed.
I don’t know about us building in an Irish style, but the sheer bloddy minded disregard for all sense of aesthetics and history that we deploy when pulling things down most certainly set us apart. Or does it?!!!
This is a bit of a cinderella. The National Museum spent about 150k in the early 90’s about using Stack A as an extension but then dropped the idea when Collins Barracks became available. It was the case a couple of years ago that Sile Dev was thinking of re-loacting the National Maritime museum to the site, much to the alarm of intertested parties Dun Leary (sp. I know). Then a couple of weeks ago Aidan Dunne flew the kite in the Irish Times that the place be used as a venue to show Hughie O’donoghue’s and Sean Scully’s donations to the state, or as an extension for the Hugh Lane ( a la Tate Modern). Since the use of the site as a cultural venue of some kind has been envisaged since the beginnings of the IFSC it’s about time they pulled their fingers out.
KB
