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Can someone explain to me what in the flying fuck is wrong or objectionable about a Mississippi steamboat in the middle of Dublin.
Philip Nolan@philipnolan1
The current St Stephen’s Green shopping centre looks like a Mississippi steamboat plonked in the middle of Dublin. The rebuild plans are generic and awful, but let’s not kid ourselves the original had much in the way of merit either.
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Agree, it doesn’t naturally exist in Ireland, that’s why all parties are all centre-right except Sinn Féin until recently
Martin Corry@MartinCorryTD
@boombastitis @KeithWoodsYT this "left-right" dichotomy is fundamentally an Anglo cultural framing completely inappropriate to a Gaelic society which in it's time had social and cultural practices associated with both and with neither.
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That is no excuse to demolish what is good to fit in with terrible architecture, improve what is there rather then create a drab miserable consistency
Kylie Jender 🏳️🌈@_KylieJender
Let’s not pretend the west side of St Stephen’s Green isn’t already ruined by terrible architecture. St Stephen’s Green is one of the largest Georgian garden squares in Europe, packed with history, and next to no attempts to preserve it.
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@true_gael Well its because the Irish are eternally and unremittingly negative about Britain. Its just too good to ignore that he was British.
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Why do British people think the Irish don’t know this? This isn’t some big ‘gotcha’ moment
J. D. Underhill ✝️🏴🌲@BibleBaggins46
Always remind the Irish that Saint Patrick was BRITISH
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Does everyone agree the first is better ? I really think people overrate the Georgian/Edwardian/not sure which monoculture.
Barra Best@barrabest
@philipnolan1 Look at how Belfast once looked, and what we needed up with..
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It must be stopped, what a travesty. But apparently there are plans to appeal
The Irish Times@IrishTimes
‘Like block of flats’: Public unhappy at Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre planned new look irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin…
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There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see
Fiona Small@FionaSmall
The current version of St Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre completely outmoggs the proposed revamp
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So they agree to demolish something as iconic Stephen’s Green while literally wasting throwing away money on their own building thats also about to be demolished
Irish Independent@Independent_ie
Dublin City Council sets aside €10m for work on existing offices despite plans to demolish Wood Quay complex buff.ly/IIkCz3b
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Irish politicians have engineered a crisis mentality. A scramble for housing, a scramble for office spaces for the FDI economy. Their entire political vision is crisis management so fast and functional will always win.
On a deeper level, there is a cultural vacuum in Ireland. Official and professional Ireland has turned away from Irish identity as backward and that is reflected in architecture. Even if there was less pressure and time for architects to sit with a project, chances are the result would be an imitation of an external style - something that looks stunning in Madrid or Brussels or Rome but looks soulless and awkward and out of place in the Dublin landscape.
Architectural planning and completion that is interesting, 'feels' right and adds to the landscape must be conceptually of a place, for the people of that place. It needs to speak to the past, present and future of a place if it is to inspire.
Joe Lynam@JoeBLynam
Yuk - it's awful. Why are Irish architects so boring and bland in Ireland? Get Calatrava on the case and build something memorable Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre redevelopment approved businesspost.ie/property/steph…
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Take something beautiful and make it ugly. The building as it is feels uplifting and inspirational, the “upgrade” is just soulless and brutal.
Fiona Small@FionaSmall
The current version of St Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre completely outmoggs the proposed revamp
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Literally looks like every other modern unremarkable building. Stephen’s Green must be saved
Business Post@businessposthq
Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre redevelopment approved businesspost.ie/property/steph…
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It was way higher in Scotland, much higher than England
Rothmus 🏴@Rothmus
The way they teach us so extensively about this, you’d think the numbers were higher over 550 years.
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Topic…. Always by topic. This is the civil way of doing things
Emilee Honey 📚@emhoneyreads
Have I lost my mind, because mine is arranged by author…
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@MissSassbox The ragù and béchamal should be seperated by additional pasta layers.
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this is not lasagna and my heart is shattered into pieces
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