A Contrast To All That Brutalism

15 thoughts on “A Contrast To All That Brutalism”

1. Tarfton Clax June 23, 2020 at 10:52 am

   Another Ugly Pointless Concrete Box. Not exactly a building for the Ages. Who needs beauty anyway?
   1. Janet, dreams of spidercrab and fancy pastries June 23, 2020 at 11:13 am

      +grim
      that whole campus has such an unfriendly soulless yet retro vibe ( not in a good way )
2. class wario June 23, 2020 at 11:24 am

   it’s boring but i wouldn’t necessarily say it’s look awful. it looks like a million other office type buildings around.

   you see endless complaining about every style of architecture online but nobody ever suggests how things should look instead. bar all the fella who use architecture as fig leaf for fighting against ‘cultural marxism’ or whatever.
   1. george June 23, 2020 at 11:28 am

      Exactly. I would love to see their ideas. Some sort of pastiche of an 18th century building?
      1. Janet, dreams of spidercrab and fancy pastries June 23, 2020 at 12:05 pm

         or something more adapted to our gray wet weather
         1. class wario June 23, 2020 at 1:35 pm

            Sounds a bit circular in its depression inducing!

            FWIW I am just a bit sick of architectural criticism being used as a figleaf for people to moan about ‘post-modernism’ or ‘cultural marxism’ or whatever. I know you’re not one of these people, Janet, and not trying to suggest anything of the sort. This is, to me, a boring building. They definitely could’ve done something far more interesting with it and that could be said for countless buildings in Dublin. While I wouldn’t say your examples are quite to my taste, they are at least a bit more interesting and novel than the suggestions of all the 1800s revivalists out there.
            1. Janet, dreams of spidercrab and fancy pastries June 23, 2020 at 1:49 pm

               I getya :)
            2. Janet, dreams of spidercrab and fancy pastries June 23, 2020 at 1:49 pm

               what do you fancy yourself ?
            3. Tarfton Clax June 23, 2020 at 2:53 pm

               Nothing wrong with many of the 1800 style buildings. But Something interesting not just a concrete box.

               https://qz.com/708139/the-worlds-oldest-university-and-library-in-morocco-founded-and-restored-by-two-women/

               or anything with good proportions and possibly an Arch somewhere. so the rain doesn’t just pour down on people.
      2. Janet, dreams of spidercrab and fancy pastries June 23, 2020 at 12:24 pm

         some Northern European architecture I admire…Oslo’s 2008 Opera House, designed by Snohetta or Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki by Steven Holl 
         1. Otis Blue June 23, 2020 at 2:03 pm

            I like this

            https://www.archdaily.com/907675/oodi-helsinki-central-library-ala-architects
            1. Janet, dreams of spidercrab and fancy pastries June 23, 2020 at 2:55 pm

               that is nice
   2. Janet, dreams of spidercrab and fancy pastries June 23, 2020 at 12:25 pm

      this is just a ribbed box for nobodies pleasure imo
3. Specific Gravity June 23, 2020 at 1:18 pm

   Volvo – Boxy but good.

   Jaguar – Sleek and smart. For men who’d like handjobs from beautiful women they hardly know.
   1. Janet, dreams of spidercrab and fancy pastries June 23, 2020 at 1:50 pm

      isn’t that all of us ?

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