Ugly Irish (Completed) buildings

jd007

This isn't a building but still looks ugly imo. In ballindine, co mayo.

http://www.mylocalnews.ie/files_cms/image_485122cb42dbf.jpg

recylingbin

Thomond park won an award when it was completed. Best architecture of the year or some such crappy, made up thing.
The aesthetic beauty of the country is in big trouble when something that looks like it was designed by a plumber on acid wins design awards.

Sanjuro

Alofthedunnes wrote: »

I think they have planning for it to come down and be replaced.

Yep. With this.

artanevilla

The new Landsdowne is very attractive for a new football stadium. I also quite like Phibsboro tower, sure it's ugly, but it's iconic and I will the sad when they knock it down.

Pittens

this thread is an anti-modernist rant. With the exception of some valid but obvious targets - hawkins house, shopping centres, the limerick slab and the 60's office buildings - it is an attack on some fine modern buildings.

Lansdown road looks killer.

For Forks Sake

orourkeda wrote: »

Dublins biggest eyesore

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2217/2123765932_b7cc916c18.jpg

I actually quite like that one at night when it's lit up

You want ugly, most of UCD Belfield campus. Especially the library

http://www.iol.ie/~ronan/Images/Dublin/UCD.jpg

xOxSinéadxOx

For Forks Sake wrote: »

I actually quite like that one at night when it's lit up

You want ugly, most of UCD Belfield campus. Especially the library

http://www.iol.ie/~ronan/Images/Dublin/UCD.jpg

you think that's ugly? check out the library in maynooth, I never go there cos it makes me want to vomit.

edit: http://www.brockport.edu/history/Maynooth/pic5.jpg

Raekwon

DIT Kevin Street = Fugly

Jesus Wept

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

Without a shadow of a doubt this thing in Phibsboro is the ugliest building I've ever seen in Ireland.

I think we should pull it down.

davyjose

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

you think that's ugly? check out the library in maynooth, I never go there cos it makes me want to vomit.

edit: http://www.brockport.edu/history/Maynooth/pic5.jpg

Best excuse not to study I've ever heard.

It had to be done! What kills me about this place is the disregard of our heritage it stands for, and it's location - next door to one of Dublin city's most historic buildings.

pjordan

I've felt for a long time that this building is considerably out of place and intrusive for such an idyllic rural location and also what it represents i.e a lost slice of priceless Irish island life. It's more akin to an IDA advance factory.

However on the inside it is a most impressive place and one of the best of it's kind in the country

http://www.heritageireland.ie/en/media/060405%20Blasket%20Isl.%20Centre%20032.jpg

Alias G

Sanjuro wrote: »

This horrible, manky eye-sore. And it gets worse the closer you get. It looks like something out of Cold War-era Russia and is deteriorating all the time. Wouldn't be sorry at all if this relic was pulled down.

I reckon all Liberty hall needs is a facelift. It looked great during that playhouse thing. I would say the same about Busaras. It has some beautiful mosaics if you care to check out the details. They both have some nice retro style if perhaps in need of a bit of a makeover at this stage.

davyjose

Alias G wrote: »

I reckon all Liberty hall needs is a facelift. It looked great during that playhouse thing. I would say the same about Busaras. It has some beautiful mosaics if you care to check out the details. They both have some nice retro style if perhaps in need of a bit of a makeover at this stage.

Yeah, busaras is just shabby as hell. If it was new it would be a very nice building.

Really don't like the look of the concourse in Nui Galway.. Can't be changed because it's a protected building or whatever. It is practical though with the entrances and road below it.

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_a-T73GENI6k/R57lW2E70NI/AAAAAAAAAzU/Bd_V-_QNqlM/CIMG0826.JPG

fryup

is the Texaco building still there in ballsbridge?? thats ugly!!

Barna77

DaaaaaaaaaaN wrote: »

The new School of Business building in Trinity, I can't find a picture but it just looks horrible and out of place.

I wonder how they got planning permission for that thing

What about this? http://j.imagehost.org/view/0145/dublin-altovetro

Agent Smith

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

Without a shadow of a doubt this thing in Phibsboro is the ugliest building I've ever seen in Ireland.

this


Close second comes for the british embassy in ballsbridge

Glico Man

Cork County Hall is pretty darn ugly...and its a protected building so there's no hope of getting rid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CorkCountyHall.JPG

Darksaga87

Scotch hall in drogheda.

It hurts my head to see this every day.

Pittens

Its no wonder that Ireland has a large footprint in it's cities relative to population given the anti-highrise bias in this thread.

it is 2010, and about half of the buildings picked out here were either high-rise ( well ish), or had the audacity to be made of steel and glass rather than 18th century materials.

bonerm

Pittens wrote: »

Its no wonder that Ireland has a large footprint in it's cities relative to population given the anti-highrise bias in this thread.

it is 2010, and about half of the buildings picked out here were either high-rise ( well ish), or had the audacity to be made of steel and glass rather than 18th century materials.

I disagree. A glass-faced downtown highrise zone can be a beautiful thing if it's done right. But it would be too much to expect that in Dublin however where (as typified by the latest example the joke of Aviva Stadium) the larger buildings are dotted around the place and dumped side-by-side with the smaller ones.

I mean take O'Connell House for example. Seriously, WTF is that supposed to be?

I would love for the Dublin docklands to become a high-rise reality (I even like the stuff around Tara St Georges Quay Plaza because at least it feels unified to some degree). Where the mistake was made in Dublin (notably in the 1960's) was to just erect ugly-oversized buildings whereever the land was available and the legacy unfortunately survives to this day

PrettyBoy

fryup wrote: »

is the Texaco building still there in ballsbridge?? thats ugly!!

Still there, it's an Audi showroom now. Actually looks good from the outside with the cars on every level.

Not sure if it's been mentioned but there's an apartment complex beside Dundrum Town Centre (opposite Hamleys Toys) and the buildings themselves are very nice but for some reason one of them has these chrome panels all the way down the side of the building. Completely ruins it IMO.

k99_64

Kildare county council offices

http://www.williaamcox.ie/assets/kildare1_f.jpg

echter

sron wrote: »

In my last term only one of my classes (both lectures and tutorials) was held in a room with natural light, and even in that room the light shone into the corner away from where everyone sat. I dislike the inside even more than the outside (which looks ridiculous with the wood grain and concrete design).

I agree it's quite a dungeon at times but I think it really is beautiful. Inspired by the hanging gardens of Babylon. I especially love the wood grain on the concrete and I plan to have that installed in my dream house! It's very tactile and sympathetic. This is coming from a person who likes Central Bank so I guess I'm the minority.

reprazant

fryup wrote: »

is the Texaco building still there in ballsbridge?? thats ugly!!

Its an audi showroom and I think it looks great. Always did.

I also can't see where all the hate for the new Lansdowne is coming from. As some one said previously, people just seem to have issues with anything new. The old Lansdowne was terrible but because it had been there so long, people didn't mind it.

Some great pieces of architecture have been nominated by people that I really like - the Spire, the Ulster Bank hq, the Texaco offices, the Dublin Corp offices and the new Lansdowne for example. The common factor is that they are all new.

You have architects who try to design some new and bold and they get slated for it. It would seem that people just want bland buildings that don't stand out or try to be different.

fryup

fryup wrote: »

is the Texaco building still there in ballsbridge?? thats ugly!!

reprazant wrote: »

Its an audi showroom and I think it looks great. Always did.

are you on drugs:cool:

btw - i think the new lansdowne stadium is ace, the old one looked like a farmyard shed

JohnMearsheimer

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Passing Douglas Village Shopping Center on the South Ring this morning Christ what an ugly out of place building.

What the new shopping centre replaced wasn't exactly pretty either.

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

Without a shadow of a doubt this thing in Phibsboro is the ugliest building I've ever seen in Ireland.

I always passed it on the bus home from work. I'd always turn my head the other way when we were going by.

I'm going to add the Boole Library in UCC, not exactly the most uplifting place to walk in to.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/52775686@N00/504336655

goose2005

Renn wrote: »

http://www.future-is-now.info/uploads/1/2/8/1/1281974/1907561_orig.jpg

It looks like a plastic bottle that's been thrown into a fire.

Typewriter

Merchants Quay Cork City...

http://inphotos.org/remembering-cork/

Erica<3

The Irish Life centre. Christ.