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alan d, you miss the point, we like the spike, we just wish we couldn’t see the joins, it diminishes it, makes it look less fully realised.
now the arsnel, what a great place for a science museum, near the zoo, in the park, interesting star shaped walls, etc etc. this was the subject of my first post ever, oh, three years ago and i still believe it.
the stencils would be great if they stuck to hoardings and stayed away from stone, but they don’t, so they piss me off.
i just don’t think it was possible to make a stainless steel spike without it looking like it looks. nobody knew. half the country was saying it would look crap because it was too modern and tall and the other half were saying it would be great becuse it wasn’t a flying saucer or a statue of jesus. noone thought about the spike itself.
don’t worry, it’s nothing 594 m^2 of gold leaf can’t fix.
so the article in paper (i can’t remember where) said that there was some discussion regarding the impact, which is reasonable, the views from the RH should be protected, but that these discussions concluded to everyone’s satisfaction. keep calm.
actually they are mostly two-bed apartments in 3 to 5 story blocks according to the indo, with about 300 hundred houses, a park along the road, a school and some shops.
i guess the problem with the playground is that it definately outside the ifsc area, there is a very clear line with rich people one side and poor the other and naturally the social and affordable people in clarion quay feel that they are being asked to go back across that line so that there children can play. if the ifsc development was less like a fortress that playground would seem much closer.
a great pity, the northwest has such beautiful cooutryside, but not enough by way of museums etc.
what’s so wrong with Farmleigh, what do you wish happened to it, a hotel and golf club?
if it was an anonymous contest then it isn’t their fault the winner was local, and isn’t a bad thing.
what makes him a prick is not a desire for unspoilt space, but the idea that it is his right because he pays such and such an amount.
finally saw this following the recommendations above and loved it, i was espessially pleased to see a map showing east wall, where i live, when the grid was still intact and before they had a church on church road, pity they didn’y call it dogtrack road, maybe we’d have a dogtrack here now.
the other really stricking thing was that people in the past used to carry stuff on their heads, when did we stop and why?
Its true, the campsire cows are undamaged, this sort of contradicts my claim that public art people respect is less likely to be damaged, my evidence, in my own mind, was that people seem to like the famine memorial and it seems to escape vandalism, on the otherhand, as pointed out, the cows in the same area seem to be fine too. In short, my thesis is unsupported by evidence.
I still think cowparade is kind of crappy.
