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Of all the ones I have seen so far the offices in letterkenny are the most interesting – in that the aesthetic is so removed from the standard highly crafted material style that you would normally associate with the awards. Not that it isn’t well built – but it’s context and handling of the same indicate that our usual treatment of ring road areas need a lot of investiagating.. and this is a really fresh approach.
Is that the full list of Special mentions?
Good variety but haven’t seen half the stuff.. is the book out yet?
trace – I didn’t have time to go through that but isn’t it true that anything set out using circles will inevitably have something to do with a golden section?
To Alan D — The bookshop is in the same (small) room as two people working on unrelated things .. each time you come in you feel as if you should chat .. which is fair enough except that they are trying to work and you want to look at books… so you go ahead and try this and an awful silence decends.. after two or three trys you end up running out the door in a cold sweat! Maybe the place is haunted…
But seriously .. how about if one bookshop developed relationships with various cultural organisations around ireland. Each organisation would lend one of their members to manage the purchasing of book stock for one day every two weeks or so. The bookshop itself could take care of shelf stocking, ordering and so on. They could have sections such as “Architecture, sponsored by the AAI” or “Sculpture, sponsored by the SSI” and so on.. it would be good for the organisations and the bookshop would come to be regarded as the port of call for not only specialist books, but a well informed and current stock.
I agree actually – you feel as if you’re treading on their turf – and you are I suppose… a nerve centre of a big organisation and a bookshop don’t go together. They should farm out their buyer to a mainstream bookshop.
In order of latest First!
Moat Club – Naas
Mermaid – Bray
Draiocht – Blanchardstown
Pavillion – Dun Laoghaire
Civic – Tallaght
Project – Temple BarI’m sure I’ve missed a couple – Lots of spaces and not much to put in them – performances or audiences..
Paul, I like the thought that the Cork bus station is a little offshoot of Busaras – much in the same way a strawberry plant will send its tendrils elsewhere to flower…
J. Seerski! The George hasn’t much to do with architecture but in a way has a lot to do with butchness of a sort..
It hulks itself down the street in an unashamedly horizontal manner, just about twists direction and lumbers on to the George … hmm … well when you look behind you see that even on the vulnerable “underbelly” of a street building … it’s hard. No compromising. A building with a thousand hangovers and the Alka Seltzer is out of date…. ahh
I’ve renamed my desktop trash bin “an taisce” and have put all your profiles in it.
South Gt. Georges st. is an amazingly butch building – I love it.I used to love sitting in the spanish pasta place on D’Olier St. and imagine I was in new york… Try these… one before window renovation and one after. I think they did a good job although I liked the rythm of the old windows better. They concentrated on the verticals which worked well..
