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Obviously no one knows anything about these guys, so I’ll keep to Dublin.
As an interested observer in Dublin architecture then, my favourite new buildings are the timber clad theatre at Trinity College which has a solidity and power that is impressive like a roman seige tower and cries this is an important structure and the new housing in Temple Bar which I believe was done by the same Irish architects. It is well detailed, warm in its choice of materials fun.
Obviously no one knows anything about these guys, so I’ll keep to Dublin.
As an interested observer in Dublin architecture then, my favourite new buildings are the timber clad theatre at Trinity College which has a solidity and power which is impressive and the new housing in
Sorry about the lack off continuity, Im reading the glasgow architecture web pages and coming back to Irish Architecture. Anyway this hotel was done by gordon murray and alan dunlop who are also doing a building in Sligo. Are they Irish?
http://www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk/framesetnews.htm
just stumbled across this lead on the hotel building in Glasgow
I tour around a lot and have visited Dublin a few times, usually staying at the Morrison. Just along the road on the opposite bank is a Civic Office building, sorry I don’t know the architect but I guess it was built maybe five years ago. Anyway I think it is very good indeed. A very satisfactory solution to what must have been a complicated brief on a difficult site and next to the Cathedral and the river.
Recently I visited Glasgow and stayed at a hotel called the SAS Radisson because my ususal hotel was fully booked. It turned out to be a blessing for this building is an absolute stunner. Again, don’t know who the architects were, apologies I am not a designer just passionatly interested in modern architecture and the usual standard of hotel is banal to say the least, so that’s the resaason for staying at the Morrison. This Glasgow hotel though must be the best hotel I have ever seen.
I’ve just read “Yuck” also by J Seerski. What’s the best new building in Dublin then? Surely not the new gallery that looks just like one I recently visited in Edinburgh. I’ve always thought that modern architecture in Dublin was well thought of, that building looks like a step back. All those meaningless slots!
