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I agree completely – being in the public eye, she has a duty to promote Ireland whether its our industry, our countryside or our design!
Have you approached the OPW? They probably designed it.
http://www.opw.ieTrue, I for one woiuld love to see the inside of Iveagh House on St Stephen’s Green of which I have seen photos – stunning!
The former AIB on Westmoreland / College Street can now be appreciated again without the scaffolding but the stonework seems patchy, areas seem to have lost their top surface…..
was it cleaned over sealously? will they damage the pediment sculptures on the other building now as well….
The river is too narrow for the Backhall Place bridge deaign at that point, but the Macken Street bridge was be a welcome addition to Dublin.
It includes Gray’s own copy of the famous chrome-and-glass
side table designed for E1027, her iconic house at
Rocquebrune on the Cote d’Azur which was so much admired
by the modernist architect, Le Corbusier.It also includes a monogrammed dressing gown, all of her
lacquering tools, the Poiret dress she wore and even her
make-up.Carpets, chairs, tables, lacquered screens, frosted glass
lanterns, prototypes, photographs, contemporary magazines
which reviewed her work are in the collection bought by the
National Museum for £900,000.“We didn’t have a stick of her furniture, so I took the view that
we just had to acquire all these things that were designed, used
and cherished by her, the museum’s director, Dr Pat Wallace,
told The Irish Times.“We were very lucky to get it, too, because we gazumped, if
you like, the Pompidou Centre,” he said, adding that the
Minister for Arts and Heritage, Ms de Valera, played a major
role in securing the money. He also paid tribute to the art critic,
Ms Dorothy Walker, for her support.This is great, finally something that people will go to see at the National Museum in Collins Barracks.
There’s no point in redeveloping there unless they get the couple of building behind it. But then no doubt An Taisce will be shouting about vernacular buildings of Abbey Street.
Mind you, I’ve never been that impressed by the Abbey Theatre anyways. It’s a poor enough brick box by Ronnie Tallon.
Is it just me that thinks that awards for developmenst under 100,000 are so much more worthwhile? encouraging people to hire architects no matter how small the job and be bold about the design?
Okay maybe they needed gates but they could have been designed in conjunction with the original architects… the gates at the photograhic archive completely spoil the curved wall into the square….
Hi David,
I assume that you are the young man mentioned in todays Irish Times…. best of luck with the project….Dublin Corporation’s regeneration plan for O’Connell Street received a boost today, when the Environmental Impact Statement on the
Monument of Light, or ‘The Spike’, gave the project the go ahead.If the plan for the 120-metre stainless steel needle and the new Plaza is given Ministerial approval, it will mean significant disruption for Dublin
motorists as two lanes of O’Connell Street will be closed during the construction process.Dublin City Manager Mr John Fitzgerald believes that if action is not taken to restrict traffic flow through O’Connell Street, the city centre
would be “strangled”. He said that the overall plan was to make O’Connell Street sacred in the same way as the Champs Elysses in Paris.Mr Fitzgerald also added that the Corporation was pressing ahead with its plans to address the current imbalance of “undesirable uses” of
O’Connell Street, specifically the large number of fast food outlets and gaming arcades.Work on the monument is expected to take at least five months, followed by construction of the Plaza, which should take around 19 months
to complete. O’Connell Street will be closed for a weekend while the “Spike” is being put in place.The EIS was carried out after the design of the monument was challenged in the High Court. The Corporation commissioned McHugh
consultants to carry out the study, which looked at the monument and its context in O’Connell Street and impacts on views and vistas.A design team led by Dolan and Donnelly Architects has been chosen to draw up plans for a nine million pound developement on the Liffey House site. Liffey House is only 20 years old but has always been deemed unsightly and architecturally poor.
new building will be around 6000 sq m and office space
should start in 12 months
there is also the CIE development of the station, as they have bought the office block and property on the corner of Tara Street and the quay
