I note you haven’t debated whether the two monstrosities in front of it are in fact monstrosities. Stephenson always said that the development wasn’t completed as per is plan and that’s why it didn’t look good. His plan was to build four monstrosities, not two.
[quote=“Sidney, post: 911682, member: 183”]I note you haven’t debated whether the two monstrosities in front of it are in fact monstrosities. Stephenson always said that the development wasn’t completed as per is plan and that’s why it didn’t look good. His plan was to build four monstrosities, not two.
Be thankful for small mercies, I suppose.[/quote]
I note that you have chosen to ignore your earlier contention that Christchurch is obscured. It’s not.
Fellas like Sidney would have us living and working in Georgian tenements if they had their way. FFS, the Theatre Royal, if people wanted to see Jimmy O’Dea perform his cornball routines, it would still be there. They didn’t.
Perhaps you’re able to see through the monstrosities as you walk along Wood Quay or Ormond Quay?
As an example of appalling planning, the Wood Quay scheme has few rivals.
The Quays as a whole were ruined over the last 40 or 50 years.
As a whole they provided an elegant frontage onto the Liffey. However much of them has now been replaced with non-descript mediocrity and several eyesores.
In fact pretty much any decent architecture in Dublin is a legacy from the British. The amount of elegant buildings built in Dublin since 1922 is a very short one.
[quote=“Sidney, post: 911685, member: 183”]Perhaps you’re able to see through the monstrosities as you walk along Wood Quay or Ormond Quay?
As an example of appalling planning, the Wood Quay scheme has few rivals.
The Quays as a whole were ruined over the last 40 or 50 years.
As a whole they provided an elegant frontage onto the Liffey. However much of them has now been replaced with non-descript mediocrity and several eyesores.
In fact pretty much any decent architecture in Dublin is a legacy from the British. The amount of elegant buildings built in Dublin since 1922 is a very short one.[/quote]
Fuck sake Sidney, the Quays were worse than a bomb site until the 1990s. They were a study in dereliction. Do you remember that?
I have no problem with modern architecture, if it has some sort of character and fits well with its sorrounds. The biggest issue here is planning, not necessarily the architecture of an indvidual building.
But Stephenson was an awful architect, his buildings look like large dumps of concrete with a few slits cut through them. The Central Bank is a terrible building. Formulaic, boring and functional only, there is no originality, they’re just, well, nothing.
Incidentally, the American Embassy in Dublin is a horrid building, the worst excesses of 60’s / 70’s thinking.
[quote=“Sidney, post: 911685, member: 183”]Perhaps you’re able to see through the monstrosities as you walk along Wood Quay or Ormond Quay?
As an example of appalling planning, the Wood Quay scheme has few rivals.
The Quays as a whole were ruined over the last 40 or 50 years.
As a whole they provided an elegant frontage onto the Liffey. However much of them has now been replaced with non-descript mediocrity and several eyesores.
In fact pretty much any decent architecture in Dublin is a legacy from the British. The amount of elegant buildings built in Dublin since 1922 is a very short one.[/quote]
Could you see through Timoneys pub as you call it when you were walking along Wood Quay?
BGE theatre
Glasnevin Trust Museum
Marker Hotel
Debenhams, Henry St
Courts building
Busaras
East Wall Community Centre
Naughton building Trinity
Gibson Hotel
Gaiety Centre, South King St
Alto Vetro Building Pearse St
Commerzbank House
Morrison Hotel
Temple Bar Gallery
Art house Curved St
AIB Bankcentre
I fully expect Prince Charles and the monstrous carbuncle brigade to have a conniption.
I’m surprised you didnt add in Liberty Hall.[/quote]
I don’t like Liberty Hall. Busaras is considered one of the finest, examples of modern aesthetic architecture in Europe. A beautiful building and quite correctly a protected structure, regularly featuring in public polls of best buildings in Dublin.
Busarus is like something out of an iron curtain satellite state. If this is what passes for a fine example of modern aesthetic architecture then it says a lot about the people who make these assertions. It also explains why you champion a hack like Stephenson. But carry on, you’re entitled to a bad opinion as much as a good one.
