Millennium arts projects result in "dark, vandalised" buildings, "poor planning" and "bad design" in Ireland and LA Live is "sorely lacking in innovative design".
"When surveyed as a whole, the unpalatable truth is that the millennium arts projects have not delivered. Hard-headedness was replaced with an unseemly rush to grab the money and open the bubble ... And instead of a glittering web of arts institutions across the land, what we are left with is a series of buildings by 'named' architects, many of which are dark, vandalised or which are living in the crepuscular world of free comedy nights and amateur dramatics."
BD Online
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"Development at any cost was too often the norm. There was little strategic planning, developers speculated to maximise profits, and a light-touch regulation regime prevailed. The overall results of poor planning, bad design and minimal consumer protection are evident throughout the country, with many people in negative equity, some in floodplains."
Irish Times
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"It's not a groundbreaking list of green features, and the overall aesthetic of the building, while dynamic, is not earth-shattering. Still, the tower is a major step forward for L.A. Live, an urban project that has been sorely lacking in innovative design and urbanism."
The Architect's Newspaper
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"Did you fall so hard for greenie propaganda like human overpopulation that you thought The Economist may have a good point? Are you still willing to look the other way, knowing that the British financial oligarchy is happily killing people in the name of greenie causes that you support? If so, you too are a genocidalist, and, a total patsy for powerful financiers with a born-to-rule psychosis who will just as happily knock you off too."
Alternative News Network
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"You can pay lip service to conservation in the suburbs, but the suburbs are what they are. They are designed to work on oil and gas. The Jolly Green Giant isn’t going to move shoddily built, energy-inefficient houses closer together. Our choice is either to fight the failure of these places or to get serious about reinhabiting the older parts of existing towns and cities."
UTNE
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