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Raidoactiveman, were the lands to belong to the county council, what exactly would you put want them to put there?Forgive my lack of imaginitiveness but all I keep coming up with is golf courses
If you look about the county towns, youghal is one that comes to mind, of Cork you can still find a few of those old fifties style shopfronts. Though they are a bit dated I find that they still look fine.
Again in Paris, the Andre Citroen park, downriver a bit from the Eifel Tower, is a superb example of a modern park. It is out of the main tourist area so it is very quiet, it is beautifully laid out and has a balloon in the middle so you can go up and look down on it.
@garethace wrote:
Sort of a visual representation of the statistical problems here, just to bottom out on some of my points.
Could you explain that in plain english and what it has to do with architechture?
Oh and thanks for all yor writing – very useful and thought provoking.
@Jack White wrote:
I agree you Cork folks don’t have the privilage of two hour commutes, I’m sure it can be arranged.
Ever seen the tailback on the N8 approaching Dunkettel in the morning?Ever driven through the Kinsale road roundabout in rush hour?I’d bless myself before using the vortex of death. 😡
@A-ha wrote:
Glad to hear that the Cork-Dublin “motorway” is getting built piece by piece. At least it should cut down the time spent on the road.
Not really as that way it takes longer to complete the whole road. Whats being done between Athlone and Kinnegad is better. When completed the cork-dublin road will have been done in about 12 sections over 45 year. In France that would be 3-4 sections in 20 years max.
@Boyler wrote:
I wonder if there is anything that Shanghai could learn from Cork?
What can shanghai-a city of 20 million-learn from a city of 200 thousand which is at the oppoite end of the eurasian landmass?Not even Dublin learns from us. And how many people in Cork or Shanghai knows or cares about the twinning? To be honest I’m amazed that Shanghai and San Francisco have twinned with a place as globally insignifigant as cork.Or do big cities twin with loads of cities?
Theres 3 lanes on the south link road in cork for 1 and a half kilometers. Almost 4 if you count the turning off lane. Then it goes straight down to 2 lanes with no hard shoulder. Like the M50 the road was’nt very well designed when first built and now lanes are being added flyovers being built and overpasses extended with no particular order.Already the Jack Lynch tunnel is running at the capacity that it is supposed to be running at in 2015.As for leesiders comment thats a governent thing done to indicate that if your not near Dublin you wont recieve the same privliges as the pale.
Judging by those new photos I’d vote for wilson architechts But I’m surprised that Coughlan de Keyser got nominated for their pyschadelic pink and blue boxes
About two years ago I saw the CHQ site and designed a 20 storey sail shaped building that would sit at the start of the island like a ship breaking the water, in my head.Then I saw the Burj al arab. There went my architechtural masterpiece.But it would look better in that position and cork and be more symbolic of the cities martime past.
Dat fella is entirely contradicting himself.He appeared to want a tall high rise of a high quality,yet said he did’nt, got one and turned it down.This dockland thing is becoming a joke, no tax incentives, beautiful buildings but no planning permision and CIE’s failure to start up Horgans key. We’ll end up with a load of 5-7 storey buildings sprawling across the docklands in a decades time.
@lexington wrote:
They’ve been ‘forgetting’ for 7 years to build Horgan’s Quay in Cork.
It can only be down to alzihmers at this stage!
