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[Anthony]

Below Busáras, an old theatre worth revisiting - Dublin Inquirer

An exhibition later this month examines the Eblana theatre’s importance and the much-contested but visionary scheme of Busáras itself.

dublininquirer.com

I remember it being open. We used to get the bus into Dublin to go record shopping and we'd get back to Busaras and kill time hanging around down by the steps. There'd be posters for the plays that were on at the time.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

35 Unfortunate Pics From “Culture Critic” Showing How Architecture Is Becoming Increasingly Sad

When did we decide to swap out ornate buildings for bland cubes with no personality?

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[shitepipe]

35 Unfortunate Pics From “Culture Critic” Showing How Architecture Is Becoming Increasingly Sad

When did we decide to swap out ornate buildings for bland cubes with no personality?

www.boredpanda.com

I assume the 'Culture Critic' is basically Jacob Rees Mogg

 

[seanc]

Have I posted this before?

The Invisible House

The Invisible House FACTS AND FIGURES Project: Client: Budget Status: SCOPE OF WORK AWARDS AS SEEN ON SHARE Facebook Twitter Youtube

jakstudio.co.uk

I've been in this house. Stood outside it and literally couldn't see it. No one told me to look for the invisible house. All I did was anger the neighbours dog.

 

[Cormcolash]

35 Unfortunate Pics From “Culture Critic” Showing How Architecture Is Becoming Increasingly Sad

When did we decide to swap out ornate buildings for bland cubes with no personality?

www.boredpanda.com

The 'designed by a PhD, 1975' house is fuckin class looking. It's quite similar to the LeCorbusier house in Zurich, which is a fuckin amazin building.

Edit: There's a lot of shit ones there alright, and in particular the ones where a nice building have been replaced by shit do suck, but it's pretty easy selection taking the shit examples and not mentioning any of the actual good modern architecture.
Sydney Opera House, 1973
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, 2017 - cool building that's amazing inside
Helsinki Central Library Oodi 2018 - fuckin brilliant building that other cities should be aspiring to copy
Hungary House Of Music, Budapest 2022 - the Budapest version of Helsinki Central library
etc etc etc

 

[magicbastarder]

i'd love to see the estimated cost of a modern version of that - to pick an early example in that article (i didn't get very far in), the west virginia lunatic asylum. is he suggesting that schools should be built like that?

 

[shitepipe]

The 'designed by a PhD, 1975' house is fuckin class looking. It's quite similar to the LeCorbusier house in Zurich, which is a fuckin amazin building.

Peter Eisenman- House VI. Famously included no bathroom and a hole in the bedroom floor (intentionally). The gist was that the design was the result of an abstract geometric process that resulted in that form- and if you choose to live in it well so be it.

Although the architect ended up putting a bathroom in it- fuckin sell out

House VI - Wikipedia

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House VI 1975 — EISENMAN ARCHITECTS

HOUSE VI Location: Cornwall, Connecticut Year: 1972-1975 Project Brochure [PDF] House VI is both an object and a kind of cinematic...

eisenmanarchitects.com

 

[seanc]

Laguna Garzón Bridge - Wikipedia

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It's a bridge, still cool though.

Doesn't say it on Wikipedia but apparently it's design also accounts for the strength of the water flow. Or something.
Also, under two years to build and $10m? How??

 

[pete]

Also, under two years to build and $10m? How??

it's not very big?

 

[seanc]

Samuel Beckett bridge was €60m.

That Laguna bridge is much bigger than it could have been, if it was just a normal straight bridge.

 

[seanc]

Casual / Uninformed 'architecture' thread where I post busaras every three years. Boring buildings with good anecdotes equally welcome. Must be a building, unless its an unrealted excuse to dig up the thread.

Anyways who knows why but I'm reading about nascar today, behold the hotel where it all began as an institution.

St Pancras Renaissance London Hotel - Wikipedia

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The threads sometimes open with the very first post in the thread. Which made me think of this place.

I worked here maybe a year ago. The steelwork on the stairs is amazing. Those stairs are the famous stairs where The Spice Girls did that dance. I replicated it when I got the chance. Everyone under 35 was very perplexed.

Also, a mate spent a few nights here, but at illegal raves when it was derelict. Then his wife was involved in the renovation of it. So one day he decided to treat her to tea and scones, to see the fruits of her labour.
So they walk in and he asks "we're not staying here, but is the cafe open to the general public?"
"Well" says gimp-to-the-super-rich staff "you would have to pay". It is £30 for tea and scones.

Obviously, like, what?

Another time, another friend went in to work. The doorman says "where are you going?"
"I'm working here"
"Oh no no no. You see, monkeys use the contractors entrance, down that side alley there"

"Hmmmm, yeah, nice hat dickhead".

I think it's changed management since then, so the staff are more human now. But it is a cool building.

 

[hydromancer]

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Whatever has replaced Hawkins House, often considered the ugliest building in Dublin, isn't complete yet but its top part really shits on certain vistas of the city. Saying that, Dublin's built beauty seems for various reasons to be between the 1st floor and 5th floor. The taller structures seem almost universally drab. I kinda like Liberty Hall but a bit like the bunkers of Dublin City Council, maybe it should have been erected elsewhere in the increasingly vast edge city.

 

[Cormcolash]

I actually like the Wood Quay buildings

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I actually like the Wood Quay buildings

I don't hate them but they were built in the wrong place. Atop Viking Dublin. Mental carryon.

 

[Cormcolash]

I don't hate them but they were built in the wrong place. Atop Viking Dublin. Mental carryon.

There wasn't much there beforehand though was there?

 

[ann post]

I don't hate them but they were built in the wrong place. Atop Viking Dublin. Mental carryon.

Viking Dublin was built atop Celtic Dublin

 

[ernesto]

Whatever has replaced Hawkins House, often considered the ugliest building in Dublin, isn't complete yet but its top part really shits on certain vistas of the city. Saying that, Dublin's built beauty seems for various reasons to be between the 1st floor and 5th floor. The taller structures seem almost universally drab. I kinda like Liberty Hall but a bit like the bunkers of Dublin City Council, maybe it should have been erected elsewhere in the increasingly vast edge city.

I noticed this yesterday morning driving in on the quays. The little square black glass thing popping up behind Westmorland street. Yeah not great looking, so far anyway

 

[ann post]

Is it still going to be this equally ugly shithole? All anyone at street level is gonna see is face level concrete and miserable people on leather couches smiling while doing work appropriate things.

Hawkins and Apollo House redevelopment plans unveiled. | Archiseek - Irish Architecture

The Office of Public Works and Tom O’Brien and Simon Coyle of Mazars as Joint Receivers to Cuprum Properties Limited, appointed by NAMA, are delighted to announce today (Friday 3 June), that planning applications were lodged with Dublin City Council for the redevelopment and regeneration of key...

www.archiseek.com

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Viking Dublin was built atop Celtic Dublin

“The new temples are already cracked future ruins
One day grass will also grow over the city
Over its final layer”