missarchi
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One of the reasons I so respect Frank Pick (1878-1941), the legendary chief executive of the London Passenger Transport Board, is that he made common places shine.
Sham sans?
@what? wrote:
I would disagree with the described restoration (see: recreation) of the sistine chapel for similar reasons of falsity and a loss of reality.
How does this relate to people? If someone is sick do you not treat them…
If someone has an accident and loses half there face is face reconstruction wrong?
Is it a loss of reality is that person not a person anymore?
Is this person now false because they have a false leg or someone else’s heart?
At the same time if a building needs upgrading do you not upgrade/recreate it?
falsity and loss of reality has its place its called intent…
Ideas and religion can be more powerful than reality and falsity is what drives the world.
There is never any reality just perceived reality in the built environment…I would either be happy with an acknowledgement of the old intent/grid it can be a reconstruction or recreation. What goes on behind could be a meal deal… that makes everyone happy:) one of them must be the ugly duckling
http://www.flickr.com/photos/neesam/2097021679/sizes/o/
changing hands still people in control… and history has not changed iconoclasts are not allowed to practice
RPA will be holding an Open Day for Luas City Centre/Broombridge (Line BXD):
Wednesday, 10th June 2009, 16:00 – 20:00hrs
Jury’s Hotel, Parnell Street, Dublin 1.@GregF wrote:
See that the botchers and the butchers are digging up parts of O’Connell Street. Making a right mess too as they arse around meddling with underground pipes.
They are also in action too on Dame Street, botching and butchering right on the new plaza beside City Hall and that incongruous odd looking new building.
that’s why you have underground trenches….
@GrahamH wrote:
(don’t get me started on the logic of joints there)
telecoms and politicians~
if college green was on the level you would not need it…
coláiste oiliúna;
green = adj glas m1
green = uaine f4
green = faiche f4the last photo right in the middle of the grey box
@missarchi wrote:
“the engineering option”
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/letters/2009/0608/1224248284045.html
I admire some of the ESB concepts such as the mixing the best elements of the 3 designs if done correctly. Will it be caixaforumish? Large for plates or existing old blocko plates!
We need paddy power to bet on a number of outcomes…Will It End up in the EU court?
Will It be best building in Ireland for a long time?
Will it have large floor plates?
Will it go quite?
How many awards will it win?@lostexpectation wrote:
did the esb not consider leaving the site?
omp? but why would you leave a site like this it makes no long term sense
@Bago wrote:
Do you drive? Bad idea.
Yeah I do and I hate parking fines and parking fees… The humps in Ireland are for ladies
Carrer de Jaumel? All you need is a super humps outside starbucks college street . With college green on the level. Some Bluestone block like ruff cut stuff before the speed humps would also be a bonus but not like the re-levelled stuff in temple bar. It also gives off a noise if speeding. The thing to do in college green itself is put the low cut madrid bollards so close together that cars have to drive slowly and have to do right angle like turns with no room for error otherwise the car gets it. Dame St go from 5 lanes to 3 (1 bicycle) with parking median not so sure but possible….@what? wrote:
I am not advocating a jarring ‘signature’ building here.
I am saying that a visually sensitive response is needed.
I am also saying that historical recreations anywhere, equate to a distortion of history more deeply disturbing than any facile disunity created by a modern building in a historical setting.
Architecture has and will continue to distort history regardless of style because it is a reflection of people… what ever happened to chain mail it got lost in transport and declared damaged goods return to sender? Expect triangle shaped roofs?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomcosgrave/141626225/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanneste/3252013768/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/360berlin/3030249473/sizes/o/@what? wrote:
Blind replication of the facades would be a massive step back for architecture in Ireland. The replicated Georgian facades on lower pembroke road are offensive.
There is no doubt Fitzwilliam St. facade requires more a more subtle rhythmic/ textural treatment than the purely oblique formal interpretation that’s there now, but replication however tempting is not the long term solution.
I think we will get a varied material pallet based on the old lots for fitzy.
Georgian facade in wood, georgian facade in brick vertical bond ectThe old blocko could come into play behind but with ellipse or hexagon roofs sections…
The building might even look a mutant plant… edouard-francois would be nice
It’s proposed to take the trees down around the jacks and fill the toilets with concrete as part of the metro works. What goes on the cake? Sounds good but I get the feeling it is a pre-emptive strike for luas
@parka wrote:
is a certificate in building studies (if lucky).
It is quite worrying that qualifications in any profession mean so little these days.At the end of the day its just an important piece of paper…
It does not guarantee a job it does not guarantee a good service or a career…
Its called the education industry and they appear better networked than the architects…95% government…
It is also envisaged that an hourly rate applicable to the different architectural professional
grades will be submitted as part of the indicative fee proposal to allow for other services
that may arise during the course of the design process such as attendance at any oral
hearing.
a rate for life would be good! I’m not sure about Ireland but there is a minimum architects salary in other parts of the world that is different to the minimum wage? There is no architects union and architects don’t protest they listen to teachers;) good luck to who ever fills in those forms!
