Emma Dwyer of the Architecture Foundation writes:
A project we’re involved in at the moment. We’re asking Dubliners to engage with their city, along with five installation across the city we’re having a debate on twitter. All of the details are here.
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Junkie perches.
My immediate thought. More benches would be good, fewer junkies would also be good. We need to get the streets clear of junkies begging and crapping all over our fair city.
On the topicthis documentary is worth a watch with a few cups of tea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4d-FMCiLuI
What Dublin really needs, more than anything else, is wider footpaths. After it would be good if the city council made it easier to cross the street here.
I’d agree with that alright. Along with removing the M50 toll and placing a congestion charge on private cars into the city centre (And I’m a driver myself)
If public transport was better and cheaper, there’d be an automatic reduction in the number of private cars coming into the centre. Don’t think it’s fair to penalise those who genuinely need to use a car in the centre.
With a congestion charge, people would soon find out how genuinely they need to use a car in the centre
What Dublin needs is to get all the parked cars off the streets. There’s no reason the side of every street should provide a long acre for parking, rather than being used for driving and cycling.
But where will I park?
In yer momma.
If only there was a place off-street where you could park a car. Someone should really create a Car Place or Car Leave, I’d say there’d be demand.
If the City Council built high-rise car parks around the city it would take the road-jamming cars off the roads; it would also make most of the clamping unnecessary as cars would be tagged in and out of the car parks.
theres nothing i like more than sitting on a bunch on a summers night, drunk off my face eating chips and singing sea shanties – only in residential areas however
A bunch of dicks?
A public toilet would be nice.. something…something…India.
What if Dublin was nuked because it’s an overrated sh1thole?
Ah, it’s no Limerick now.. but no need for that like.
Do you live in Dublin Jimmee?
If yes, fupp off somewhere else.
If no, fupp off somewhere else and don’t come near it.
What if, what if, what if…every year architects and other groups have the same old talking shop and Dublin just gets worse and worse…any character it once had has been completely destroyed- it’s nothing more than a tacky concrete shopping center now.
…Wood Quay…ESB…Priory Hall…we need a modern day Patrick or Pied Piper to drive the architects out of the country.
The architect completed a visual inspection. The developer stated he had complied. The council failed to inspect. The system failed, not the architect.
Eh … no
I had a really weird experience with an architect recently and having never needed one before I don’t really know how it went:-
I asked an architect to call around because we were going doing an extension/loft-conversion thingy. I was kinda treating it like any other service I’d buy, I go to the dentist with a tooth-ache, I describe the underlying problem and expect him to explain what needs to be done in his professional judgement, roughly how much it’ll cost and then, armed with information, I decide whether I go-ahead or not. Grand.
The architect didn’t put pencil to paper once, consistently repeating that the creative phase only happens once he has been engaged. After much frustration, I understood this to mean, only when I had a deposit paid would he give this project some thought. Worst sales pitch ever. He left me with nothing tangible for me to chew on afterwards.
A few weeks later he put up a Facebook quote of Frank Gehry’s “I don’t know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do”
Does any one else fine this sales process a bit weird?
I don’t really want to feel like I am a funding source for his fancy portfolio of images on his website. I want him to realise my dream, not his.
I thought it might go more like “here’s 5 bullet points of what I want, give me a few ideas and possibilities, possibly roughly sketch out what it might look like, and maybe give me a bit of guidance on things I need to consider etc.
Anyone recommend a architect who likes to listen? :-)
Very common architect problem.
Only bikes allowed in the city.
No people.
When I think of benches, I think of a poor girl I saw years ago. It was along the (at that stage, relatively new) boardwalk. There she was, resplendent in her communion dress. Her family were all around her, completely wasted on two-eys of cider, basking in the glorious sunshine, fla-ed out on the benches.
Brought a tear to my eye.
What the city needs is less intimidating, brain dead gombeens. It’s a great city but there are too many parts aren’t safe.
Also, less litter would be nice.