Remains Of The Day

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Sir John Rogerson’s Quay as it is today (top) and how it may look

Of this controversial proposed development on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin

Paul Clerkin tweetz:

I hate remnants being kept as “reminders”…

FIGHT!

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18 thoughts on “Remains Of The Day

    1. classter

      Yes, Mr. T, ’cause only pretentious architects should have an opinion on the design of the built environment. You’re only gas altogether.

  1. i likJanet, I ate my avatar

    I like it and I’m not a hipster, at least I don’t think so, checks mirror nervously

  2. classter

    This lazy facadism hasn’t been given planning, has it?

    The proposals for Bolands Mills look pretty lazy too.

    With all the money sloshing around can we really not ensure some small proportion is spent on procuring a decent design?

  3. turgidson

    The top photo can’t be from today (literally) as the apartment building on the right has already been demolished. Here’s a shot of it from the 24th of August.

  4. Paul Davis

    Truly and utterly pathic.

    The planners have literally zero vision, it’s another Lansdowne Road debacle.

    Building to the rear is not great but with the scale of the retained facade it would be near impossible to create something interesting.

    1. classter

      It could easily be done without that lazy ‘entrance way’ is the point.

      It doesn’t cost much extra to insist on some semblance of decent design.

      Somehow the builders/developers have convinced the Irish establishment that decent engineering/design/masterplanning is all an expensive faff.

      That site will make a lot of money for those involved. There was absolutely no reason the planners could not have insisted on a thoughtful design instead of that lazy sh!te.

  5. shane

    I don’t mind the facade, but the building itself is so awful and lazy, I can imaging them CTRL-V ing any one of ten thousand buildings from low end business parks next to secondary airports from anywhere in the world, and then adding the weird protrusion to the front.

    If you want to keep the facade as a design constraint, fair enough, but at least incorporate it into the design, not work around it

    Also, why let anyone build a 5 story building in the docklands? Surely they could go to 20 stories and also include accomodation

  6. 15 cents

    more ‘baby we’re back’ craic. seeing a few of these big shiny dumps poppin up around the place. why not re-do all the empty ones left behind from the recession? just takin up more room. same with the housing .. dont wanna use this word.. crisis. they say they urgently need to build X amount of houses to meet demand, yet there’s apartment blocks and estates lyin around completely unused. i really hate how dumb this country is at times.

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