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€3,000,000.00 Architectural Competition:
Celtcia has announced a three part architectural design competition regarding College Green in Dublin, Ireland. To ensure the best architectural outcomes are achieved Celtcia are offering generous competition to try and find the best result for one of the most important architecture and urban design set pieces in history.
Email one A3 page at 150dpi of your design to competition@celtcia.com. Include your name and contact details in the email. Entries must be received prior to the 17th of March 2016 1:00am St Patrick's day. Three entries will be shortlisted. This shortlist will be labelled “trinity”.
a) Entries that are shortlisted will be offered a surprise one way ticket to a destination in Europe.
b) If any entrants can successfully license their or celtcia’s designs exclusively to celtcia.com in the next 12 months with a successful and funded business case. Celtica will award €3,000,000.00 from this case to the winner.
c) For every time you blog/messageboard/facebook or get press or media you will receive one bonus point. The keywords are luas cross city, college green, bus gate , 2016, Dublin City Council, Architecture, Design, Urban Design, Public Space, Proposed Part VIII Application , Christopher Manzira, Senior Executive Engineer, Roads & Traffic Planning, Cuffe , lmcgrath@dublininquirer.com
In 2009 Celtcia released a photo montage of College Green. 2 years later President Barrack Obama and his First Lady visited Ireland and spoke in the middle of this design concept. This competition is open to the public.
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
“We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a civic space that we can be proud of as a national civic space,” said Cuffe. “We’ve got to get it right.”
Links:
http://dublininquirer.com/2015/11/11/council-examines-plans-to-transform-college-green/
http://www.ciarancuffe.com/cllr-cuffe-welcomes-plan-for-college-green/
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1639844
7th of September Panama canal close to 100 years and an estimated cost of US $5.25 billion in 2006...
- European Investment Bank (EIB) US$500 million
- Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) US$400 million
Shane B:
"I like the idea of incorporating the shamrock into a new style of modern Irish architecture to give us back our own sense of identity"
Shane D:
"Having spent New Years on College Green last year I love the idea of developing the area in a way which makes it more Irish, Similar to O'Connell St"
Mark B:
"Very tasteful modern architecture that embraces our cultural symbolism"
Derry O N:
"I really like this idea and I feel that this proposal really captures a sense of Irishness that Irish people will be proud of"
Dublin City Council have been asked under motion 1261 to formally review and provide a report for a 100
year anniversary flexible civic space concept proposal that can be configured
in a variety of traffic options that can provide for Buses, Luas cars and people
depending on the program. Which needs to be developed further in an open environment. This is just the formal starting point of the consultative process.
Ireland has been missing Irish Influenced design and investment in the built environment for the last 100 years which is very difficult to do successfully.
It needs to go back to its roots and become a nation of hope again.
Any country within the European Union deserves support from Brussels
to be able to celebrate a 100 year anniversary with a long term vision and
future if it does not have the money itself. Ireland received a
spire for the millennium it now needs to aim twice as high and become a
functional nation of hope again and allow children of the future a space to
play. It should include playgrounds, spaces for Grandfathers and Grandmothers
to sit and some grass would be nice in the brutal Dublin Environment yet alone
a safe toilet for your children with security in the center of town. It would
boost tourism and hope for the people of Ireland. If the vaults of the former
Irish Parliament , Bank of Ireland and Trinity College where opened up to the
public we don't think the people of Ireland would say no. Give Irish people the
choice to decide the future and become a city of hope.
http://www.dublincity.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/106037
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Celtcia have asked for Leo Varadkar and Luas Cross city to respond to the proposals of Celtcia and the Decade Of Commemorations. Would this proposal boost tourism and hope in the city and country?
http://www.dublincity.ie/RecreationandCulture/DecadeofCommemorations/DecadeofCommemorations/Pages/DecadeofCommemorations.aspx
Look here for the discussion live.
http://www.dublincity.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/103835