Great buildings of Cork

Rhys Essien · 26-03-2015 1:38am #1

St Fin Barre's Cathedral

Blarney House

Feel free to add.

The Peanut · 26-03-2015 11:13am

Bantry House is stunning.

run_Forrest_run · 26-03-2015 3:34pm

good god, thought I had accidentally taken LSD when I saw the pics of St Fin Barre's Cathedral and Blarney House :eek:

jimgoose · 26-03-2015 3:43pm

St. Anne's Asylum, Shanakiel:

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St. Anne's Church, Shandon. De Bells, bah:

The Elysian Tower:

The County Hall, Carrigrohane Road, with a bronze Chah and Miah looking somewhat bemusedly up:

The Peanut · 26-03-2015 3:54pm

I was out by the Lee Fields the other day; St. Anne's really is a most impressive, formidable building. It must have taken some effort to build it.

jimgoose · 26-03-2015 3:55pm

The Peanut wrote: »

I was out by the Lee Fields the other day; St. Anne's really is a most impressive, formidable building. It must have taken some effort to build it.

It's some sight alright. They say it's the longest building in Ireland.

The Peanut · 26-03-2015 4:04pm

Fastnet. Incredible.

Oafley Jones · 26-03-2015 4:08pm

run_Forrest_run wrote: »

good god, thought I had accidentally taken LSD when I saw the pics of St Fin Barre's Cathedral and Blarney House :eek:

Wouldn't be a fan of HDR type stuff myself. Its like looking at everything through a blown out amoled display. They'd be great photographs otherwise.

jimgoose · 26-03-2015 4:18pm

A little bit of Ancient Rome, in Caaark bah! :pac:

City Hall Quay House, Albert Quay:

The Courthouse, Washington Street, wit' feens, beoirs an' smallies walkin', like:

jimgoose · 26-03-2015 4:48pm

Cork Airport terminal, Lehenaghmore on a clear evening at dusk:

The Quad, UCC:

The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, UCC:

Blackrock Castle, with Observatory:

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The Peanut · 26-03-2015 6:28pm

Great stuff Jimgoose. You'ld forget how many stunning buildings we have.

Subpopulus · 26-03-2015 8:35pm

Yes, and you'll get to see inside many of them on the second weekend of April with Cork Open House

Check it out:
http://www.openhousecork.ie

The Peanut · 26-03-2015 8:47pm

Subpopulus wrote: »

Yes, and you'll get to see inside many of them on the second weekend of April with Cork Open House

Check it out:
http://www.openhousecork.ie

That's a brilliant iniative. Great idea.

overmantle · 28-03-2015 9:49pm

It's difficult to surpass the City Hall. A Very impressive building.

Cool_CM · 28-03-2015 10:38pm

A lot of people would probably disagree, but I really like the R&H Hall building

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Rhys Essien · 28-03-2015 11:03pm

Kilcoe Castle - Jeremy Irons home.

Castlehyde House - Michael Flatley's house.

Lyaiera · 29-03-2015 9:42pm

Yeah, the R&H Hall rocks. It's really a different style in the skyline.

Whoops-6 by Niamh O'Donovan, on Flickr

The old FAS building is definitely one of the interesting buildings, if not beautiful. I have a friend from Central/Eastern Europe and she says it reminds her of the 60s architecture there built under the Eastern regimes. And it's definitely not as ugly as the Science Building in UCC.

Benches-4 by Niamh O'Donovan, on Flickr

moyners · 30-03-2015 10:56am

Camden Palace, Camden Quay.

Odlums on the docks

Presbytery, Paul Street,

draiochtanois · 30-03-2015 11:01am

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the beer revolu · 30-03-2015 11:58am

I'm really glad someone posted R&H Hall building and the old Revenue building on Sullivan's Quay. I love those buildings - they have their own style.
I also really like the bus station. I'm so glad they went with a refurb rather than a rebuild.

Some people try to insist that I only like these buildings just to annoy people, to get a reaction or to be seen as "different" but I genuinely love the bleak, ugly beauty of these buildings.

Brussels Sprout · 31-03-2015 6:49pm

the beer revolu wrote: »

Some people try to insist that I only like these buildings just to annoy people, to get a reaction or to be seen as "different" but I genuinely love the bleak, ugly beauty of these buildings.

This should be right up your street then:

I actually went down to the R&H Hall building as well to get some shots of that for this thread. Great minds

KCAccidental · 31-03-2015 8:30pm

I also love brutalist architecture Beer Rev, so you're not alone!

mordeith · 31-03-2015 11:55pm

Not appreciated enough because in fairness you wouldn't really look up at it in the tight confines of the street

GPO Oliver Plunkett street

Lyaiera · 01-04-2015 8:59am

Northside Southside by Niamh O'Donovan, on Flickr

I love the old tiling that's on the Savoy. And the whole shape of the upper part of the building. It seems very 1920s to my uneducated eye.

The Peanut · 01-04-2015 2:41pm

Really love the aerial views of Charles Fort; get a better perspective of the design and scale of the place.

whisky_galore · 01-04-2015 3:01pm

Lyaiera wrote: »

Northside Southside by Niamh O'Donovan, on Flickr

I love the old tiling that's on the Savoy. And the whole shape of the upper part of the building. It seems very 1920s to my uneducated eye.

It would be, Art Deco. Pretty much everything on Pana is post 1921 as the existing buildings got burnt down. Pity the advertising spoils it a bit...would be a great night out venue if it didn't attract so many scobes.

whisky_galore · 01-04-2015 3:08pm

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