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Pier D (which is planned to project out of the ‘free’ end of the old terminal building) is back on the agenda.
A Government report [prepared by an interdepartmental committee set up to limit the economic fall-out of the September 11th attacks] calls on Aer Rianta “to procure the development of Pier D by spring 2003 on the basis of the existing planning permission as a low-cost facility targeting low-cost carriers”. Aer Rianta should “enter into appropriate arrangements for the management of Pier D to ensure that it facilitates significant growth in throughput at Dublin airport from low-cost operators”, the report continues. Aer Rianta received the report yesterday and has been asked to respond within a week.
The full story: http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/finance/2001/1120/fin7.htm
The old terminal building: http://www.irish-architecture.com/archdublin/20thc/airport.html
More muddled thinking from the Minister for Congestion! Surely the problem at Dublin airport after September 11th is one of finding ways to fill the additonal capacity recently provided by Pier C and the new aprons, rather than building a new pier? If more building is required, why not construct a new terminal solely for low-cost carriers on the other side of the airfield?
New York City Infrastructure Task Force: http://www.nycrebuild.org
Check out ‘winking eyes’ at:
http://www.calatrava.com – opening sequence et al . . .Gateshead millennium bridge – http://www.wilkinsoneyre.com & http://www.gateshead.gov.uk/bridge/bridged.htm
According to Dr Edward McParland, St Mary’s was among the churches needed for new parishes in an expanding city:
“Begun in 1700, with its tall short nave, steep roof and bulky tower it has a medieval silhouette. But its plan comes from Wren (at St Clement Danes), and its east facade has the best baroque window frame in the country.”
Willam Robinson (architect of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham provided the design for the window frame (see the east front of the Chapel). Robinson ‘probably’ designed the greater part of what McParland calls “this transitional and gauche composition”.
Arthur Gibney and Partners have been appointed architects for the adjoining ‘retained’ building, No 5 South Leinster Street, which is to be restored under a separate contract.
Belfast’s Crown Liquor Saloon: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/crown/hist.htm
Is this the former Tropical Fruit Company building? The two carved heads on the facade were originally part of James Gandon’s Carlisle (now O’Connell) Bridge, before it was widened at the end of the 19th century.
To be clobbered not once, but twice, by road widening! Is this a record?
For more information on Eileen Gray: http://www.designerinnen-forum.org http://www.ProjektgruppeE-1027.de
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E1027@gmx.deO’Donnell and Tuomey used one of these for a while to monitor the progress of their project in Letterfrack from their office in Dublin. I seem to recall they won some technology innovation award for this.
No joy, sorry. Interior views of Phase 1 – a universally accessible foyer for the Department of Health and Children – are at http://www.murrayolaoire.com/projects/civic%20buildings/hawkins%20house/ 150hawkinsimage1.html et seq.
See the June 2001 ‘Envelope’ supplement to Building Design, page 9 (part of a feature on Buro Happold Facade Engineering), for a small colour image of a glassy, “multiple-skin” re-worked Hawkins House.
“Barry O’Reilly, an archaeologist and architectural historian from Dublin has completed a study of corrugated buildings across Ireland and is intending to write a book on the subject.” – from http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/2001/0622/fea3.htm
You could start at http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/styles/high_tech.html
There was an exhibition at the Netherlands Institute of Architecture http://www.nai.nl in Rotterdam early last year – a series of ideas projects by a German (?) artist for the rehabilitation of a former coal-mining and power-production area in northern (or former DDR?) Germany. I believe that the future of power-station cooling towers came into it somewhere. Perhaps NAI can help with contacts?
NAI also had an earlier exhibition, of the Emscher Landscape Park in the Ruhr (part of the Mastering the City – 100 Years of Urban Planning in Europe exhibition in early 1998), which may or may not have some relevance. See http://www.nai.nl/regie_e/new/ruhr3_e.html
Check out how the Waterfront’s surroundings have nosedived since it was completed. Still, it was always meant to be a commercial magnet.
Hawkins House will not be demolished. Plans for a make-over are being developed by Murray O’Laoire for the OPW.
The Power of an Idea (ISBN-0946641-811) £IR25
Dublin: A Guide to Recent Architecture (ISBN-1899858-30X) stg£8 http://www.temple-bar.ie http://inforegio.cec.eu.int/wbover/overstor/details.cfm?pay=IE&rgo=IE021&the=9&sto=139&lan=EN
www2.rudi.net/ej/udq/53/a.html
www2.rudi.net/ej/udq/60/internat.html http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/2000/0805/fea1.htm http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/08/06/sticuicui01014.html http://www.arch.columbia.edu/Projects/Studio/Fall98/UDstudio2/harlem_main.html
