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Sorry Paul
any offence caused was intended towards the users and the consequent topics. The site is a brilliant facility and invaluable resource.just a bit disappointed with dublin-ocentric nature of irish media in general…for example two buildings featured in ar this month are in cork….though never mentioned on these pages…
Can we get off the topic of archeire and onto donegal district office. etc http://www.darrancrawford.com/councilchamberpictures.htmps. as you can see from the site location it is a student run, student funded site by a member of the soc
In today’s Guardian…even the english like Landsdowne…..
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/columnists/story/0,10260,574019,00.htmlFirst Images of Swimming pool i’ve seen apart from physical model.
http://www.ajplus.co.uk/news/news_article/?pid=3&sid=49&aid=15922&channelid=4&NewsComingFrom=architecture&dDate=31+May+2001+11%3A38%3A14Visit, Mackel and Doherty’s school near the gasworks, and their schhool that got a commendation at the aai awards (any sign of the annual book)….
tatu on lisburn road, (might be bit far from city centre)
Ormeau Baths Gallery by Twenty Two over Seven
(could there be a better name for an office)By the way, Consarc are Belfast not London, and the oddessey is poor, stealing nice features/ ideas from other buildings and managing to make a hash of it….I speak only of the exterior though, i know nothing of its internal spaces.
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With reference to deepnote’s statement in relation to dockland area, take a look at:
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/finance/2000/0404/fin19.htmand I’m not sure about who has been appointed to do the masterplan but I found this
http://www.murrayolaoire.com/projects/urban%20design/titanic%20quarter/titanicquarter.htmlLevel III at QUB have been producing masterplans for the same site for the last
number of years, with one year having their work displayed at RIBA hq.Another interesting building in the future is Dixon Jones’s new Student’s Union at QUB.
Architecture in belfast is not buzzing,
still dominated by po-mo pastiche with
cornices and bollards on copings. nasty.What these ‘great’ projects have in common is that they’ve been pumped with lotto
cash. Down here people are angry when ‘public money’ is spent on capital projects, but if proceeds from the ‘stupid tax’ was spent they wouldn’t feel so aggrieved.
Whatever happens to our lotto cash?
Cayman Islands anyone?Po
One gets the feeling that if you propose a sacrificial element to a scheme, ie a tower,
it takes the focus off an ultimately mediocre
design….making anbody opposing the scheme feel like they have won (when this element is removed)….when in reality thats what was intended all along……i mean a tower so slender as in this scheme (how many units off the one core?) is just not economical….
