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How much control did McCauley Daye O’Connell have in this project? Could they have led to poor final state of the building?
From looking at Aires Mateus’s website, and at the handful of buldings completed by him, I see high build quality. Can’t really say the same for MDO’C. They seem to do a lot of bland stuff. Like that church in South Dublin on their webpage. Looks like a leisure centre.
@CiaranMurphy wrote:
I have a copy I’ll post later tonight. Eh, no I don’t think that is the U2 tower. It looks a dead ringer for thisDAMAC tower in Dubai though… all 90 floors! The photo was of Darren Simpson and Charlie King of Damac properties… so I wonder if it was just a stock shot.
I suspect shoddy journalism really. But maybe I’m wrong… I don’t really expect much from the Metro TBH.
Yep, that looks more like it.
Thats not half as distracting as the one outside the Hugh Lane.
Slow, rythmic pelvic movements. No wonder I was late this morning
Vaugely commendable but then no suburban railway lines never get too cloose to the city centre proper. People who usually travel north to Conolly have to get off at Pearse and then walk further every morning. I have a friend who walks to Mountjoy square from conolly each morning. Now she would have to stop at Pearse and walk for 10/15 minutes to get to the place where she would usually start from.
Damn you loopline! Damn you to hell!
@shamrockmetro wrote:
I dont think this bridge makes any sense once the interconnector/metro goes in
Shamrockmetro, you dont really seem to see the purpose the of the interconnector. The interconnector will bring trains through Heuston and into the docklands. If you take away the interconnector then it will sever the DART system in two, and leave the whole system looking like the luas is today – not joined up. Furthermore, all rolling stock south of Pearse station would be stranded, and from what I can see, that would cause problems. The Loopline is totally necessary, tens of thousands of Dubliners rely on it every day to get them around the city. It does a wonderful job. Unfortunately, its hideous and obscures the view of the Custom house
50-200 million euro a kilometre
Thats an exact quotation. If only every builder was like that:)
I like it! Especially the new bridge, which creates a whole new thoroughfare through the city.
Is that a concert hall/convention hall at the far north of the site?
I’m not entirely sure where this hole is but I’d reckon its the Future systems Luas bridge near the spencer dock buildings
We have really shite politicians in Cork. I remember Ned O’Keefe up in arms that he hadn’t been informed that a new super prision was to be built in Kilworth
‘How dare they suild such a monsterous building in the area without consulting me or the people of the area? Why wasn’t I consulted? I’d rather have a windfarm in the area’
5 days later:
‘I’ve looked at the situation and I can see that this is a good thing for the area. The jobs created will be greatly beneficial to the local community’
Campaign leaflet before election.
‘ Ned O’Keefe brings 150 jobs to the Avondhu region. 500 jobs to be created in the construction of the prision.’Tit.
@jungle wrote:
Last Saturday’s Echo had on its front page details of a new bridge planned for the city. At first, I assumed it was a reference to the Water St bridge, but in the details they said
Now, opposite Silversprings is the Atlantic Pond. There’s no substantial road network to link to there at the moment and I can see an almighty row if anyone tried to develop one. Also, I can’t see any details on the Corporation web site.
Is this the Echo getting the wrong end of the stick about Water St or is it genuinely a completely new bridge?
On a side note, this is the diagram of the bridge
This dont look like a raisable brige. Does this mean no more ships up at he quays?
I really need to work on my sarcasm.
The sarcasm mark.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm_markAnd many of the paintings in storage are very fine works. Even the ones that aren’t have huge historical value and interest. And there are plenty of other real works of art that could be exhibited in the Hospital instead of that modernist nonsense. The Archaeological museum is well known to be badly in need of space, with tonnes of stuff sitting uselessly in storage. Just look at the recently opened little exhibitions of roman artifiacts and the Cyprian pottery one – those artifacts had been lying in museum drawers for years. Another thing they could use the Hospital for is a decent National Portrait gallery- with all the hundreds of fascinating portraits from the last 4 centuries rarely seen by the public. The Ormonde picture collection could also be housed here, since Kilkenny Castle just won’t let people see the paintings. And so on.
Why stop at Dublin? They could send out paintings to other Cities like the Guggenheims round the world.
NGI Cork
NGI Limerick
NGI Galway
etc,.I visited about a year ago, and, shocked at finding the Hospital Chapel closed to visitors, asked the guy at reception if I could visit the chapel. He seemed bemused, wondering why on Earth I wanted to see the chapel! Then I learn, to visit it, you must go on a tour , arranged by the OPW, and he gave me someone’s phone number!
I’ve encountered the same problem, even though I was with a group of architects who clearly wanted to see the Chapel and who would have been greatly privleged to see the cuilding. Honestly, how hard can it be to open the place every morning and close it again in the evening?
I am. I just think that moderm art is better viewed in a modern setting, and the Royal hospital isn’t the best place for that. I’m not sure what should go in the Royal Hospital but I would much prefer the IMMA to be somewhere else.
Perhaps the NGI could put some of it’s stored paintings on show in the Royal hospital. They do have something like 12,000 paintings in their vaults
I don’t think Scott Tallon Walker have been since the late 70s. Ever since its been
Grey cladding
all right angles
except for 45 degree roofed atriums
Golden section windows
Stagnation
Funny window canopies
Bland
Cheap college buildings
Grey
Boring
More greyness
Dull corporate architecturewith one or two exceptions..
This energy center puzzles me. If there’s going to be turbines in this thing, then they would be facing into the prevailing westerly most of the time. However it seems as though the energy center will only be open on the north and south faces and that the wind will be flowing through the energy center for short spaces of time, thus reducing it’s effectiveness.
Theres a similar problem with the IMMA, although the courtyard isn’t so large and the architecture is more interesting. I think Craig-Martin put a large artwork running round the arcade there a year or so back. Its something that should be done more often.
Sometimes I thing that the Royal hospital is the wrong place for the IMMA. Contempary art needs to be veiwed in a contempary setting.
To try put this building into context, it is same height as 30 St mary Axe (the Gherkin) at 180m. The lower version is equal to 2 60m liberty halls stacked upon one another
