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Vanishing Modern Dublin: Are Any late 20th century buildings worth keeping?

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    #32
    Cienciano
    Registered Users Posts: 14,226 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Another where the façade is kept. I like it to be honest. Take a look across the street, place with the balconies, that would have been the alternative.

    https://goo.gl/maps/oKB8YgP85Q52


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    #33
    wakka12
    Registered Users Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    I really like that rooftop extension, it reminds me of the funky rooftops you see on top of old baroque buildings in vienna


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    #34
    MarkY91
    Registered Users Posts: 7,067 ✭✭✭MarkY91


    I think walking down the Liffey and either side of the IFSC look beautiful lately.


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    #35
    rossie1977
    Registered Users Posts: 11,341 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    Knock everything and throw up lots of boxy glass office and residential buildings. The tech megacorps and hipsters only have use for the latest of ugly modern buildings. All hail the hipster revolution.

    Fellas with beards sitting on beanbags in quirky open plan areas 'being productive' on their smartphones everywhere.

    Do you consider I M Pei, César Pelli and Norman Foster to be hipsters?

    We can't keep building out as endless sprawl would eventually lead to more problems than they solve so building up is the practical solution.

    No doubt they are many ugly glass towers but there is also some stunning modern high-rise architecture especially in places like China.


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    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,569 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Here's another 1970s era modernist building in Dublin, hardly ever discussed, as it's not all that obtrusive. Agriculture House on Kildare St, just behind The Shelbourne (completed in 1974). Worth keeping?

    bd-agriculture-7.jpg


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    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,443 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    In case anyone is wondering what they doing with the Central Bank building...

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    #38
    fatknacker
    Registered Users Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭fatknacker


    I quite like Stephen's Green SC. it's like a nice big Victorianesque greenhouse.


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