For a country that’s so gray, you’d think the buildings would be more vibrant…
RegularSea5536 on
In general all the generic small town Celtic Tiger retail-with-a-few-flats overhead type buildings, they are everywhere around the country – cheap, soulless and thrown up by builders who fancied themselves as architects. A blight on our nation.
DesignerWest1136 on
I know they’re not there anymore and some of you folk here are probably too young to remember them, but my god were the Ballymun flats the most grim looking things you’d ever seen.
Flagyl400 on
Merchant’s Quay shopping centre in Cork. The end facing Patrick St isn’t too bad I suppose, if a bit boring, but the side down along the river is a fucking eyesore.
As usual with these threads, rather than pick the obvious worst buildings, like a lot of the brutalist buildings and most of the extremely dull architect by numbers new housing and commercial stock (like the quays) people hate on generally decent if flawed buildings like busarus, liberty hall, the old central bank building and so on.
sauvignonblanc__ on
Drogheda has a magnificent specimen: Abbey Shopping Centre. And facing it, is another monstrosity: [Drogheda Court House](https://courts.ie/drogheda-courthouse)
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Hawkins House is thankfully gone, let’s move onto Liberty Hall or Phibsboro shopping centre.
Easy. Phibsboro Shopping Centre.
Kane Building in UCC, seen more aestheticly pleasing Soviet era apartment blocks
Park House at Hanlon’s corner is absolutely awful!
Busaras
Monaghan Bus Station
Cork Bus Station
The extension of the Hardiman Hotel in Galway.
The SIPTU building just off Beresford Place
Oh look at that a noctua cpu cooling block shaped building.
https://preview.redd.it/60wb3z78jesd1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=538efa647342010c1aeadb6f41125d29b29ec433
The Tesco in Kilcock.
For a country that’s so gray, you’d think the buildings would be more vibrant…
In general all the generic small town Celtic Tiger retail-with-a-few-flats overhead type buildings, they are everywhere around the country – cheap, soulless and thrown up by builders who fancied themselves as architects. A blight on our nation.
I know they’re not there anymore and some of you folk here are probably too young to remember them, but my god were the Ballymun flats the most grim looking things you’d ever seen.
Merchant’s Quay shopping centre in Cork. The end facing Patrick St isn’t too bad I suppose, if a bit boring, but the side down along the river is a fucking eyesore.
The montrose near ucd. A sad looking gray mess
https://preview.redd.it/7xvj238qlesd1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12c87b398b27d9d3909b8ef051b1dafb584b0482
Always thought this one passing through phibsborough in Dublin was hideous
Came here to defend Phibsborough Shopping Centre 🥷🏻
That cheap, rectangular prefab design of every single new build. Whatever the fuck that “style” is called
Crumlin Shopping Centre
DDC offices are extremely ugly to me. I’ll go against the grain here and say that liberty hall isnt that bad.
That building is already in Ireland. Belfast City Hospital.
The jury’s hotel opposite Christ Church
https://preview.redd.it/baxjj9siqesd1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f74b7a3172b6e0b066311371c8c3d3aecc2a6f40
The ye olde eircom building in Galway
Naas town centre looks a giant johnson
🤓 well technically…
State of Dun Laoghaire Shopping Centre
https://maps.app.goo.gl/jpxtAeq2wQGE6ft66?g_st=ac
Any infill buildings from the 90’s/00’s.
Tesco Aungier St & Baggot St. 65-66 mount street.
As usual with these threads, rather than pick the obvious worst buildings, like a lot of the brutalist buildings and most of the extremely dull architect by numbers new housing and commercial stock (like the quays) people hate on generally decent if flawed buildings like busarus, liberty hall, the old central bank building and so on.
Drogheda has a magnificent specimen: Abbey Shopping Centre. And facing it, is another monstrosity: [Drogheda Court House](https://courts.ie/drogheda-courthouse)
https://preview.redd.it/86txict0yesd1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b01f14837eb1b17131ccc4a05719402c9373af54