Martin
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Ok, Greg, maybe I said a bit too much or touched a nerve, but that comment about students was below the belt.
I agree that developments since the start of the boom haven’t been exactly awe inspiring …..but refering to the public as being dimwits,may have been a a bit blunt as Dara put it.
I also agree with bunch about educating the public about the merits of ambitious developments………….. like you do and yet you refer to them as being dimwits?………….It’s no wonder that architecture seems so elitest and its because people like you.
People that have that sort of atitude towards the ‘locals’.
Don’t dismiss people who can’t do verbal gymnastics or who may not be totally visually aware as regards art and architecture……….. you’re a graphic designer, but you probably weren’t always one. would you have appreciated the cold front that you are putting up now back then, when you weren’t an artist……but trying to get interested.
Get of your pedistal…….your pessimism and inferiority complex is doing no one any favours……….even yourself.Temple Bar is heavily featured in the ‘AAI Awards for 1997’in fact its mostly about TB, ISBN=0946641 781. It is also featured in the ‘profiles’ series on O’Donnell and Tuomey, all are available from Gandon , gandon@tinet.ie – It might sound like I work for them but I don’t….seriously
You can also hassle the architects who designed it………group 91 that is…..O’Donnell and Tuomey architects- Grafton architects-
shay cleary architects- Mc Cullogh Mulvin -Paul Keogh architects and that’s about it really…….
