Ian Ritchie (right), creator of the Dublin Spire (top), and proposals for Notre Dame (left)
Ian Ritchie – who is best known for designing the Spire of Dublin, – plans to submit a competition entry including a spire that would be “a refracting, super-slender reflecting crystal to heaven.”
The structure, which would be made of crystal, stainless steel and glass, Ritchie said, would “get to touch heaven’s clouds in a piece of celestial gothic acupuncture.”
“I think it would need to be perforated — at least 50 per cent empty space to eliminate wind loads — and could be a beautiful contemporary tracery of glass crystals and stainless steel,” he added…
France launched a competition for designs to rebuild Notre-Dame (Insider)
Ian Ritchie, creator of the Spire in Dublin—one of the most vacuous large monuments in the world—said that the Notre-Dame spire should be “a refracting, super-slender reflecting crystal to heaven,” a glass version of his Dublin monument, in fact.
If French president Emmanuel Macron had any sense, he would forbid any modernist British architect from coming within a radius of 100 miles of Notre-Dame—not that French modernist architects are any better, of course.
The Egos Are Landing in Paris (Theodore Dlarymple)
Fight!
Looks very like the one on that new distillery, formerly a C of I church on James St.
Expand please?
Here ya go… https://images.app.goo.gl/g4pqqGAZGVnNGcp96
Theodore Dalrymple – even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.
What about a giant winky emoji for Notre Dame?
I wonder will his Notre-Dame spire be “self cleaning” like the Dublin Spire?
Is that Ian Ritchie’s “thing”, putting spires on everything?
I don’t mind the spire but that is dire
it’s actually an ariel
it receives instructions from our lizard overlords from outer space, which are then beamed directly into leinster house.
i mean, look at the head on ian ritchie and tell me he’s not an alien lover.
I thought we were transmitting instructions to our lizard alien underlings as they rampaged across the galaxy, conquering planets in the name of the Great Irish Space Empire?
“I don’t mind the spire but that is dire” sounds like a Fontaines DC lyric…
I don’t mind thuh SPI-URE
Bu dat is DI-HURE
Yer old man’s a LI-UR
And he slashed my TI-UR
And set me on FI-UR
Now me hair’s like WI-UR
I’m gonna kick him so hard he’ll be singin in the CHOI-UR
haha
have to admit, was thinking as reading – “yeah, good stuff from Nigel… not quite up to his american-civil-war-comment standard, but good nonetheless” until got to the last 2 lines. Class!
HA!
Nice, Nigel :)
Uh oh, glass and metal, all the weirdo fascist ‘architectural revival’ types will be raging.
*shakes fist and rants incoherently*
Puffs pipe and tuts.
I knew the designer who created that dirty unwashed poo heap outside of Connolly Station where the Luas pulls in- he wore pink tinted glasses and kept walking into lamp posts.
Why say “British modernist”?
Because laziness.
one of the most vacuous large monuments in the world
Spot on- no matter what way you stare at The Spike, it’s just plain ugly. It serves no purpose what so ever. The French would be absolutely crazy to let Richie near a building like Notre-Dame.
+ fecking mental
The best part of the spire was the crane that put it together.
The worst part was chopping down half the trees to get in the crane. (I know, they were doomed anyway)
They have done the same thing in Clanbrassil Street, Dundalk now. Beautiful trees around the post office all gone apart from one on each side. Council funded vandalism.
“…Development works include the addition and removal of trees…”
https://www.louthcoco.ie/en/louth_county_council/latest-news/part-8-clanbrassil-street-the-st-nicholas-quarter-dundalk-co-louth-.html
Hopefully some additions to come!
Nope the pavement has been laid. They were criticised because they spent millions on the front of the courthouse while Clanbrassil Street looked like something from the third world and now, they have decided to extend—->> the pavement. No support of sme’s or other small retail businesses against the corporates, just more friggen pavements.
Meanwhile, you’d need a tractor to drive from the Casteltown Road to the train station. It is a road surface which I have never seen even in the back ar$e of Cavan; and that is saying something.
Dundalk, a market town with broad tree lined streets, no longer has a market nor broad tree lined streets.
I was up “the town” last wensda, it was completely dead, i remember clearly, and not all that long ago, not being able to walk past backhouses for the crowds of people.
Towns destroyed.
Something something compensating for something
If he was involved with that gud awful spire then don’t let him near anything again.
imagine making a living off being ‘the spike guy’