Paul Clerkin
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That happens in many other fields…. I think it’s a standard practice in that it save costs on advertising positions….
I was in work on Saturday and it was there …. by monday morning it was a pile of rubble …. I didn’t know its listing at the time but figured it was listed as demolition on a Bank Holiday Weekend normally suggests undue haste……
Very bland…. the staircase throughout the building is very uninteresting – however it seems that most doorways off the staircase were surrounded by glass blocks of which a few remain. The top floor [of which i have most experience] rooms are all top lit – their windows are in the mansard roof with large ceiling lights.
There is little in the way of the interior decoration visible in the Gas Building.
I thought the building at the bottom of Sth Gt Georges St was a former Burtons…. look at ground level there are air vents with the Burtons logo cast into them……. and the old Burtons signage on the Dame St frontage up near the top…..
The Department of Industry isnt a OPW or Board of Works (as it then was) designed building….. it was designed by J.R Boyd Barrett after a competition
http://www.archeire.com/archdublin/20thc/deptcommerce.html
just my tuppence worth…..
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I thing it’s a disgrace – South Anne Street is very unusual in that there is little visual continuation between much of the buildings but this is what makes it interesting – no a vast monolithic reproduction.
The O’Connell Street plans have been published as a book – one image @ http://www.archeire.com/onsite/discussion/oconnell_street.html
The underlying structure is an “egg-crate” – concrete columns and floors and endwalls. At the end you’re talking about the concrete endwall stops above the brickwork. there is a concrete retaining wall behind the brickwork but they had a lot of trouble with the water table during the construction so maybe it’s settled a bit over the last 50 years. More Info
The actual owners are the Department of Social Welfare – CIE started to build it but were bought out when they didn’t have the cash to finish it and subsequently have a 100 year lease – I think its 100 anyway.
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Not serious at all and probably due to the heavy traffic around that area… I did an MA on the building and the brickwork is non-structural. The structure is concrete and actually stood for over a year without any of the curtain walling and glazing fitted.
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That’s an easy one….. I’m from Monaghan so producing the site on the town and local “big” houses was easy – just a matter of bringing the camera home one weekend.
I agree on the regional variations – a site on Belfast is in development at the moment.
i dont mind the thread diverting – afterall thats what discussion is
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I think we’re missing the point here… what i was drawing attention to was the fact that Stephenson is opposing the spike on aesthetic and historical grounds which seems a bit much…….
maybe he’s mellowing as he get’s older…..
DUBLIN CORPORATION PRESS RELEASE – 27th January, 1999
Design of Blackhall Place & Macken Street Bridges. Appointment of Santiago Calatrava VallsThe General Purposes Committee of the City Council was advised Monday, 25/1/99 on the design of the bridge to be built at Blackhall Place and also to the current proposal for a bridge at Macken Street. The Blackhall Place Bridge is situated at the western end of the North King Street Scheme and is currently with the Minister for the Environment and Local Government for approval. The proposed Macken Street Bridge is in the Draft Dublin City Development Plan 1998.
The design requirement for these bridges should not be merely for further functional additions to the City’s infrastructure, but should also enhance the Civic Amenities of the City, in terms of design and visual impact.
Santiago Calatrava Valls (regarded as the pre-eminent bridge designer in the World) was approached and he agreed to take on the commission.
Dr. Caltrava is a keen Joycean Scholar, and currently lives in the house in Zurich occupied by James Joyce, when Joyce lived in that City.
The southern end of the Blackhall Place Bridge will be located on Ushers Island, which is the setting of Joyce’s most famous short story “The Dead”. The City Manager has appointed Dr. Calatrava to undertake the Architectural and Engineering Design for both bridges. As Dr. Calatrava’s practice is conducted from offices on mainland Europe, he will be operating closely here in Dublin with locally – based consulting engineers, who will be making a significant contribution to the overall project realisation.
It is pretty poor alright – the usual concrete structure with 1 inch of granite bolted on to comply with the corporation and the people’s idea of good architecture. Surely the problem lies as much with the lack of education in and knowledge of architecture in the general public – the “sure it’s much better looking than the old rubbish that was there” school of criticism.
The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland and the Irish Planning Institute publish joint resolutions on Residential Densities.
Its all a bit cliched in places but there are very interesting threads on the staircase – slices of wood and slices of acrylic which when lit from below creates an interesting effect.
