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I feel so proud that I started the “Look at the state of Cork, like” thread in 2003, sparking off some good Cork debate! Even though I’m a bit ashamed that I never showed my face again until today, I really never thought there was so much interest or concern in Cork’s buildings and it’s great to see. It’s going to take me a while to read the thread but I’ll try! My title was even abbreviated to LATSOC! Brilliant!! I wish I had looked at this site before now, it’s great!
It’s disappointing that the thread has been moved to one with a more sedate title because the intention of the original ‘cheeky’ title was to catch the eye of people from everywhere so that they’d be tempted to open it and join the debate, instead of Cork people just talking to themselves in the thread, so to speak. :rolleyes:
WOW! It’s been almost three years since I visited this forum. My only thread was “Look at de state of Cork, like”. I never thought it would grow to over 1,800 replies! I set Corkonians on an architectural expressive rampage! It’s great to see. It’s like leaving two gerbils in a cage with loads of food and water and coming back in a few weeks to find… well… 1,800 gerbils! 😛
Anyway I was wrong about Lapps quay, it’s actually quite impressive. However I stand over my distain for the Anglo Irish Bank building on Anglesea Street and it’s surrounding new buildings which dwarf The Market Bar. I wonder whats going to be built on the sorting office site. Anyone know?
RTE… *sigh* I work in TV too, nothing to do with design or anything glamourous like that. I used to work for TV3 though and their studio height is pretty low too and they manage to get it right with the light. I think the reason it all looks so bright on RTE is cos in the good aul days the old tubed cameras needed a massive amount of light to function properly. As we all know RTE staff tend to stay on a while and I think the old traditions havent adapted to the use of ultra light sensitive digital camera technology. Thats my theory anyway.
As for the set…. well its pretty woeful alright. The news is a flagship for any station and it should get priority really. Well at least it’s not as bad as the mid nineties ‘chromakey’ set that was just too unrealistic to be believeable. Total anoracks will notice that they still use the opening graphics from that on Oireachtas Report… with the title stuck over the old one. Cheap blighters…
Too much light… too little thought…
theres a newsreader on tv3 called alan cantwell. ireland being the small place it is, hes probably a relation!
And would they ever return South Mall to it’s former glory… a fine street in it’s day, sadly plundered by the likes of whoever put up the Eagle Star and Bank of Ireland buildings…
And as for south terrace… did Brooks Haughton think nobody would notice the sheer size of the sinage that dominates the whole street?! Surely the builders who buy stuff from there know where it is. after all its been there for about 150 years. Is there any limit to the size of sinage in this country?
I think all you Dublin architects should have a big day trip to Cork and have debate on the place. Youd argue for days! CIE do good bus rates. Ye’d have a great time! Ive gotta post some pictures… this place is gas! Only in Cork could you get away with building a structure like the opera house… (which is actually worse than the abbey)
A terrible shame about the good shepherd convent. A really beautiful building sadly destroyed. The situation reminds me of rumours I had heard when I lived in Christchurch New Zealand. A very pretty city with lots of old colonial era buildings, which, like the Cork convent, were wanted for the land they were on by very keen developers.
When I was in the city, there were quite a few fires which destroyed some of these listed buildings in ‘mysterious circumstances’.
And of course again, while the story of this buildings tragic end facinated a lot of people, RTE just give a quick mention (newsreader reads live over pictures type thing). Like… “Dublin Dublin Dublin… and in other news something or other happened in Cork…”
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and yeah what is with those horrendous lights? I thought the flourecent bits (which light the pavements) were for builders while they were working but they are apparantly part of the design!
There was a suggestion by a member of Cork City Council to put up some cast iron lamps instead… I shall say no more…
Thanks for taking the time to write such an informed and intelligent reply. Not so sure about Cork people not caring though. I think we do but we dont tell the right people. There really needs to be a system whereby people can easily see plans and give thier views at the planning stage, maybe something web based. I did write about the blackpool s/c and county hall but i lost all id written cos this site seems to go to sleep if you type for too long and then ask you for your password… resulting in the loss of all youve written… grr.
The lack of national press coverage is also a major factor in cork’s decline in this regard. RTE news is almost a government information channel only giving quick snippets on the silly little regions. Not that Im bitter or anything…
Well it’s about time theres a bit of Cork opinion amongst the dubs here, like! Anyway just agreeing that the chromakey backdrop on the Eurovision vote slot was utterly appaling. It the worst shot imaginable available from the stock pics probably normally used for those ‘lil picture windows next to the Anne Doyle’s noggin on Dublin Today sorry… i mean… the main evening news. I thought it was actually Spar on Dame street mainly in the picture.
A rare chance for free advertising lost. But the crimes of Latvian TV were far greater. They used what appeared to be security footage for their postcard slots. How could they have let such an opportunity slip away… millions of viewers tuned in mostly not knowing much about Latvia… an apparantly beautiful country with some incredible old architecture… and not a single shot of any part of the country was shown! Just a nice suspension bridge which appeared accidentally in the background. sad…
