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Palas Cinema wins international architecture award

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    jenno86
    Registered Users Posts: 2,634 ✭✭✭jenno86


    About time!


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    ratracer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,264 ✭✭✭ratracer


    Ah stop.... please don’t encourage anymore of this depressingly communist era architecture. It’s hideous (IMO)


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    fergiesfolly
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    It won for it's use of stained glass windows to bring colour to the interior.
    Is this visible from the outside at night.
    Would look nice if it did.
    It's a rather drab building otherwise.


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    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,510 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    I've used it loads since it's opened and I'm glad it exists, but anyone who says it's anything except ugly and poorly laid out is talking complete nonsense.


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    "Best use of colour"? It's fecking grey!

    Galway-cinema-by-dePaor-Architects_dezeen_468_4.jpg


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    VeVeX
    Registered Users Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭VeVeX


    ratracer wrote: »
    Ah stop.... please don’t encourage anymore of this depressingly communist era architecture. It’s hideous (IMO)

    Communism is the new craft beer.


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    Sycamore Tree
    Closed Accounts Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Sycamore Tree


    Very surprised by that.

    It's a shambles inside and outside.


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    buzz11
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    Read the article in the Galway Advertiser about this award, what a load of nonsense - its an award given by other architects/designers, in other words industry buddies extolling the 'beauty' of the building...oh please--vomit


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    Ficheall
    Registered Users Posts: 9,033 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    I thought this was a Waterford Whispers article..


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    [Deleted User]
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    buzz11 wrote: »
    Read the article in the Galway Advertiser about this award, what a load of nonsense - its an award given by other architects/designers, in other words industry buddies extolling the 'beauty' of the building...oh please--vomit

    Much like the Oscars


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    _Whimsical_
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    If anything it's actually detracted from the city. It's like some old factory you'd expect there to be a petition to knock down and rebuild as something attractive. It's never going to be in a tourism brochure, or gain any traction on social media from tourists or locals, no ones going to boast about being there, no ones ever going to actively really want to visit it.
    If it was even a proper much hated, standout talking piece, but its not even that. I just don't understand how it can tick any boxes as successful architecture.


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    what_traffic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,967 ✭✭✭what_traffic


    biko wrote: »
    "Best use of colour"? It's fecking grey!

    Galway Cathedral wins that award in Galway City, especially if the judges are observing at mass times. :D


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    Tombom1
    Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭Tombom1


    It's a big block of concrete ****e, should be demolished


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