Dermot Bannon's New York Homes

Icsics

Anybody watching? So we fly DB first class to NY & now he's fawning over an apartment!

Lisha

I kinda love his childlike enthusiasm

what the hell!

Depressed watching it!

lertsnim

Too many slow motion shots of him walking around New York.

Gonad

That apartment was unreal .

Icsics

No messing with that NJ man!!

Lisha

So this guy built a huge shed outside a real house?

Suckit

It is RTE approaching American Architecture, so that Dermot can comment on theirs.

I do not dislike the guy, and i am aware that he is a qualified architect.

I just do not believe that he is qualified to comment on anybody else's.

IMO, Dermot Bannon is a Terrible Architect. For my life, i am very qualified to make that statement.

I will not elaborate.

yosser hughes

He reminds me of Tubridy and Alan Patridge.
Uncouth, no refinement about him at all.
Is he related to Tubridy?

ShamoBuc

Really enjoyable show, love New York anyway, only there a month ago, didn't stay in any of the houses he was in though!

DopeTech

Is the mezzanine put in yet or was it just the massive glass doors out the the balcony put on it this week?!

ShamoBuc

The buzzer when he Eventually got a basket scared the shíte out of him.
I liked the idea of having a big kitchen and then another bigger one for the caterer.

_Whimsical_

yosser hughes wrote: »

He reminds me of Tubridy and Alan Patridge.
Uncouth, no refinement about him at all.
Is he related to Tubridy?

I always wondered that too,has a look of a brother from another mother about him!

madmaggie

Ah poor ould Dermo, like a big mad puppy bouncing around the place. I think RTE puts on these things just to drive us all mad.

Suckit

All going well for him and RTE, this is just his first foray in to America. He is planning on making a series with his brother, doing a road trip from one end of America to the other commenting on Architecture along the way.

Think of a billion BBC shows that started (i think) with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman and have been done to death now.

jippo nolan

Suckit wrote: »

All going well for him and RTE, this is just his first foray in to America. He is planning on making a series with his brother, doing a road trip from one end of America to the other commenting on Architecture along the way.

Think of a billion BBC shows that started (i think) with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman and have been done to death now.

Will we be paying for this through our mandatory license fee?

Suckit

jippo nolan wrote: »

Will we be paying for this through our mandatory license fee?

No, i think we will all decide that the show is worth whatever the fee for making it is, and their wages.
We will probably all decide to donate €215 each :pac:

downwesht

With the homeless situation in this country at present and the need for practical affordable housing I think last nights programme made a mockery of us.Bannon was OTT in his salivation over properties that were off the scale for most if not all of us.Give me a nice sea view over a concrete jungle any day.

yosser hughes

Suckit wrote: »

All going well for him and RTE, this is just his first foray in to America. He is planning on making a series with his brother, doing a road trip from one end of America to the other commenting on Architecture along the way.

Think of a billion BBC shows that started (i think) with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman and have been done to death now.

Have you inside knowledge? Who is he related to in there?

Suckit

yosser hughes wrote: »

Have you inside knowledge? Who is he related to in there?

No inside knowledge. He is not related to anybody in there though. But has always wanted to be in TV, so Architecture was pretty much 2nd fiddle. No matter what he studied, he would have used it as a tool to get on TV, which imo would probably make the original career suffer a little.
Have a look on the archiseek forums, any time his name is mentioned, it is followed by a shiver or a shudder.
I personally find his designs very boring, not always practical and never really stray from the same beaten track.
There was an idea submitted to TV3 a year or so ago, that a group of Architects work on each house, and winner is picked. Allowing for a lot more variation and giving them artistic licence to do almost anything. I thought the idea was a brilliant one. I do not know why it never went any further, i am guessing the cost must have been too high.

lertsnim

downwesht wrote: »

With the homeless situation in this country at present and the need for practical affordable housing I think last nights programme made a mockery of us.Bannon was OTT in his salivation over properties that were off the scale for most if not all of us.Give me a nice sea view over a concrete jungle any day.

The only thing OTT is your post.

Sunny Dayz

I found it enjoyable. Something a bit different to watch on RTE. Makes a change from his same-y houses he does on each episode of RTI. Loved the shots of him standing on the street of NYC gawping up at the buildings, we were like that years ago when we were lucky enough to visit NYC. Cringed at him joining in with some parade - what's that got to do with the show?!
Really didn't like the house with the hangar built around it - I couldn't make head nor tail of that. The rooms very all over the place - there's a house, there's 9 box rooms, there's spaces within the hangar - there was no flow or logic to it.

ShamoBuc

Sunny Dayz wrote: »

I found it enjoyable. Something a bit different to watch on RTE. Makes a change from his same-y houses he does on each episode of RTI. Loved the shots of him standing on the street of NYC gawping up at the buildings, we were like that years ago when we were lucky enough to visit NYC. Cringed at him joining in with some parade - what's that got to do with the show?!
Really didn't like the house with the hangar built around it - I couldn't make head nor tail of that. The rooms very all over the place - there's a house, there's 9 box rooms, there's spaces within the hangar - there was no flow or logic to it.

Could you imagine it in the rain, the level of noise it would create!

Really enjoyed this...pure escapism for an hour

mollser

The house in the Hamptons was magnificent! The fact he was blabbing on about it having no architectural merit etc confirmed my thoughts on him that he designs showpieces rather than homes.

Enjoyed the show though, great tele!

Mena Mitty

Loving tonights programme. The Laguna house was magnificent.

Hollister11

It's a great but people still complain.

BabysCoffee

That was awkward!!!

"I don't want to be a sales person"

RobertKK

I loved both of these programs, you would forget you it was winter watching it tonight, sunny California and the amazing homes.

Patty O Furniture

Mena Mitty wrote: »

Loving tonights programme. The Laguna house was magnificent.

I remember watching the tv show of the same name in Laguna as yer wan's dad was an architect & the views outta that house something else.

Would you say the tulip created a tulip wall, although the wife was 'heart-broken' to find that out

Jees, that talk went on for a long time at the Joshua Tree house, last count 7hrs, Dermot certainly had to talk him around in seeing the house :rolleyes:

Mena Mitty

BabysCoffee wrote: »

That was awkward!!!

"I don't want to be a sales person"

I think he just wanted Dermot to ask the questions and he'd answer them while touring the house.

It came as a surprize to me at the end when we learned it was rented out as Air B&B and not the Architect's own home.

The house in the desert was surreal, I was half expecting Walter and Jesse to appear in their meth-making gear.
Loved the one over-looking the sea..........sigh......

(But as my Mam would have said "But are they HAPPY????":D)

honeybear

mollser wrote: »

The house in the Hamptons was magnificent! The fact he was blabbing on about it having no architectural merit etc confirmed my thoughts on him that he designs showpieces rather than homes.

Enjoyed the show though, great tele!

Didn’t like Hampton’s house-loved apartment

Lisha

800sq foot bathroom..... our first house was just over 850sq ft !!

Mena Mitty

inthehat wrote: »

(But as my Mam would have said "But are they HAPPY????":D)

....or 'It's a showhouse not a home'

honeybear

House with sea views and healthy yoga lady house fab-400k wow!!! Awkward when Dermot lay on bed and said trading in for a younger model! He is very likeable but I thought he was harsh on non architect designed owners house.

Mena Mitty

honeybear wrote: »

Awkward when Dermot lay on bed and said trading in for a younger model!

That was an odd thing for him to say and then the camera panned to the 51 year old husband who we were told was one of the fittest men in the world for his age. Strange.

Should add we'd say something like that here for the crack.

Deise Vu

honeybear wrote: »

House with sea views and healthy yoga lady house fab-400k wow!!! Awkward when Dermot lay on bed and said trading in for a younger model! He is very likeable but I thought he was harsh on non architect designed owners house.

That bit was ridiculous. The house wasn't to my taste, with a host of quirky features it still somehow looked bland, but it was undoubtedly unique and 'brave' as Kevin McLeod would say. Dermot even admitted that he picked it out off the internet and was dying to see it until.... quelle horreur... he heard it wasn't designed by an architect.

To show us how much the guy missed the services of an architect Dermot showed us outside light fittings that were a different colour to the walls and a visible aircon grille which an architect would have hidden apparently. Wow! And in the first episode he showed us the innovative architectural feature of a shed built over a house? Right......

It just proves something my wife always said about Dermot's main show..... it's not his house, if the owners want a pink kitchen, that's their choice and their taste and everybody's drifferent.

Loved last nights, the Laguna beach one was just unreal, said it last week but this is just perfect escapism

siblers

Anyone watch his episode last night in Canada?

Found it boring enough to be honest, they were a bit OTT using The Leftovers soundtrack as well, somewhat over dramatic

Icsics

Sick of Bannon on Sunday nights & these types of programmes have been done to death.

jos28

Yep, found it boring too. Same old, same old

ShamoBuc

Not sure why the one with the lake view had a bad mixture of window widths, keepctgem the same, as wide as possible all the way across. Really took away from the view. Liked the downstairs 'poker' / whiskey room though.
The most fantastic house in the world - the one with the piano - was njce but I was expecting more the way he was salivating. The pool with sliding windows was seriously nice though.

siblers

ShamoBuc wrote: »

Not sure why the one with the lake view had a bad mixture of window widths, keepctgem the same, as wide as possible all the way across. Really took away from the view. Liked the downstairs 'poker' / whiskey room though.
The most fantastic house in the world - the one with the piano - was njce but I was expecting more the way he was salivating. The pool with sliding windows was seriously nice though.

No idea how it cost 50 million dollars. For a small enough space as well and was sold then for half the price. Something must have gone wrong during the build for it to be that expensive

For 50 million I'd expect a mansion with huge garden, swimming pool, beach house, tennis court etc

whisky_galore

Icsics wrote: »

Sick of Bannon on Sunday nights & these types of programmes have been done to death.

As if we didn't have enough property masturbation shows.