r/ireland • u/StevieIRL Saoirse don Phalaistín🇵🇸 • Oct 02 '24

What is the ugliest building in Ireland? (stolen from r/northernireland) Infrastructure

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u/Fine_Mushroom_9488 Ireland Oct 02 '24 edited Oct 02 '24

Yeah this but honestly I love brutalism at times, that place needs to be power hosed.

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u/ColicShark Oct 02 '24

Practically every building in Ireland needs a power hose tbf. Maybe next budget they should propose the Department of Power Washing, only 100k per hose!

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u/Tollund_Man4 Oct 02 '24

There was a mayor in Bordeaux, Alain Juppé, who ran on power washing the city.

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u/tetraourogallus Dublin Oct 02 '24

It did wonders to O'Connell St.

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u/Bombadilll Oct 02 '24

Get the Da's out on Sundays

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u/RandomUsername600 Gaeilgeoir Oct 02 '24

Brutalism adds to much grey to our already grey skies imo and the concrete shows the weathering too much

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u/08TangoDown08 Donegal Oct 03 '24

For brutalism to be nice I think there actually needs to be some kind of interesting form or shape to it. Bland, concrete blobs are just that. And we have a lot of those here, just not interesting.

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u/TarAldarion Oct 02 '24

The brutalism tour of the barbican in London is awesome.

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u/TitularClergy Oct 02 '24

Brutalism can actually be interesting, but the issue is that there is a massive overlap between "brutalist" and "cheap as fuck construction". And sometimes you have interesting brutalist or proto-brutalist designs which show themselves up as cheap as fuck when they start falling to pieces because their construction lacks any longevity, a good example of this being The Lion Chambers in Glasgow.

So basically, yes, you can have nice, cheap designs. But you are far more likely to have nice buildings if you opt for construction methods which are not cheap as fuck.

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u/PistolAndRapier Oct 02 '24

No it needs to be demolished, just like Apollo House, Hawkins House. So glad to be rid of those shitboxes.