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Huuuuuuaaaaaayyyyy!

High time someone brought up the Dandelion Market and the sacrilege that was its closing.
Great place to get real leather shoes, cowboy boots and jackets. Loads of jeans, cheesecloth shirts, printed T-shirts and posters for the bedsit wall.

@ jimg : The talk about changing UI misses the real point here.

It’s a sort of a catch-22.

Forum interest realistically can’t pick up till the majority of members – whom I believe are employed in the architecture/engineering/design/construction trades – start to get some traction in their own work situations.
When someone is worried about making enough to support their household then their spending time on non-revenue generating things is mad.

On the forum management side, loss of activity means loss of ad revenue.
No advertiser will pay to put ads in a forum that is only animated by discussion of Dutch Billies and the state of Irish churches.

Result – no money by Admin to run this thing properly.
And that is presupposing that Admin himself is keeping his own economic head above water in these tough times and has the time to run the site.

If we want to retain this Archiseek website and forums, then we have to start throwing the odd tenner in Admin’s direction.
Only then will he be able to buy decent (tech supported) hosting.
With that much at least he may be able to go to the Arts or Heritage people and seek some external funding.

Thanks, Gnadleif. (Interesting name . . Viking ?)

But really we should be able to upload images without any great hassle, like in most other – much sillier – forums.
Can I propose our beleaguered forum moderator set up some means by which we all can send him a tenner or two ?
A PayPal button or something – would that we possible here or would it involve additional expense ?
This Obama-style fundraising might be the solution to both his ongoing hosting issues and our desire to enthuse on the form of our built environment.

Of course, I understand that even a tenner or two may beyond some members.
You only have to look at the architects’ professional body to see the dramatic effect of our present recession.
With a membership of ~ 2,000 paying €490 (€245 hardship) they only have a yearly income of ~ €750,000.
After salaries & expenses of admin staff and elected executive are taken out of that figure the balance remaining for events must be cat’s portion.

No wonder they were so much more content to let Graham Dwyer to pay his fees and remain on their register even while he remained under remand in prison – and therefore physically unavailable for work.
In fact if you check right now on

http://www.riai.ie/register/search-results/?Mforname=&MSurname=dwyer&MEMBERID=&MSubRegion=

you’ll see his name there even still.

How unfair it must be for the other architects called Dwyer.

But this is entirely a matter for the Institute Executive of course.

And I can’t see how to upload images either.
If I could do this – an essential thing in an architecture forum, you’d say – I’d be away with it . . .

My own view is this.
I see no sense in having a (seriously) third level college in the city centre.
This is the wrong place for students due to city distractions, more expensive accommodation, no sports amenities at hand and no scope for that campus to expand.
Neither is it desirable to have one end of the city swarming with students most of the day.
The raising of this idea of a UL city campus seemed at that time very sudden to me.
It was almost like someone doing some commercial lateral thinking : get the students in and fleece them of their pocket money — that’ll keep the existing city traders going.

To me, The Granary ought be preserved. God knows the people in the 1980s put enough effort into its remodelling. Personally, I’d get rid of the Trinity Rooms, Shannon Development, NSAI, etc and turn the whole building into a proper modern city library, mediathèque, language learning labs and local studies museum. Local business/industry badly need a reference library plus patents/trademarks search facility and I see this part of it paying for itself. Maybe you could also have a geneology section which could be self-supporting.I mourn the loss of the WorkSpace units but accept that this facility may be placed elsewhere if that plot is needed for other more pressing facilities.
The old pharma preparation unit to the right of The Granary and the old Georgians on Patrick Street, these must be sorted out. What to do with them, I’m not sure.
But a city campus here is daft.

So, are you :

A. Demonstrating that the instinct towards grasping gombeenry is inherently stronger in brickies’ union officials than their love of good workmanship .

B. Implicitly complimenting the Bricklayers Guild on its acumen, while conveying to us a template for profitable purchase engagements with the Corpo in similar situations .

C. Impugning the professional ethics of lawyers for both the Guild and the Corpo who may have been complicit in agreeing a settlement far in excess of the true compensation on the basis of a visibly humbug claim .

D. Asserting a basis for successful post facto litigation against the Guild in view of its failure to fulfil the intentions implied in its compensation deal with the Corpo .

E. Bewailing yet another past transgression of an Irish local authority in relation to property sale or purchase .

If E. is the correct answer, then why not discuss instead the much more entertaining story of the Phoenix Park Wall contract ? :thumbup:

In terms of an concert venue, I think a new landmark building near the river, perhaps on the Dunnes site, would be ideal for that – something weird and wacky that adds to the riverfront in a modern way.

A lot of buildings compete for Shannon river frontage, not least the UL Architecture’s proposed new City Library — a very worthy case for a new building — down in the corner of the old potato market.

Sure, a concert hall entrance from the Charlotte Quay won’t generate as many adoring photo backdrops.
But the site is big, fully developable and I think a good public works architect could readily blend the new part of the building with the old Granary stonework façades.

This is all fantasy in the current climate though!

But Fantasy exercises the Soul . . .

I suppose we can take it that A. an Ú is an F-rating insulation-wise ?

Howdy Timmi.

Maybe you’d provide more context here.
Are you an architecture/architectural technology student ?
Or is this research more in the way of market research ?

For styles (hmmmm) and profiles the best place to go would be to the principal suppliers.
Munster Joinery :rolleyes:, Rationel, Grady Joinery, etc etc.
I know that there is a share of imported Baltic/Scandinavian softwood windows also.

Some will make whatever fenestration design you want in whatever hardwoods they have, e.g. teak, iroko, sapele.

It’s long established that big project jobs would have a large sign board near the front entrance showing the main contractor, sub-cons, arch, civ eng cons, mech & elec cons, etc.

Could you not have a smaller – yet attractively designed and visibly printed – board by the entrance to small jobs, like houses, refurbishments, etc ?
Naturally you’d need to include the builder as well (unless he wanted anonymity:rolleyes:) but that ought not be a problem.
Anyone admiring the design work and curious who did it can see without trespassing, calling or asking around.