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I think Theatre Royal vs Hawkins House is better example in Dublin: https://www.dochara.com/the-irish/then-now/hawkins-st-theatre-royal/ https://www.dochara.co

• hinkley 3y ago
  If anyone remembers the Kingdome in Seattle, surfing the lead up to demolition someone ran pictures of the original proposal. The artist rendering was a white building, that looked okay, maybe even good. What Seattle got was raw concrete. Pseudo brutalist. That building was an ugly piece of shit the day it opened, and it just got uglier every day after. To paraphrase Office Space, every time you saw the Kingdome, it was the ugliest it had ever been. What they replaced it with has changed names a couple times but is a decent building. And the Mariner’s stadium has actual brick on it, but due to budget problems only on the side that faces away from most commuters. It seems like the artists’ drawings for some buildings, especially the simple ones, can end up lying quite a bit. I get the same vibe from the building in the parent comment. I bet the proposal was exactly the same shape as what they build but the facade was rendered much differently.
  • philwelch 3y ago
    The Kingdome was an engineering catastrophe on top of an architectural one. It was physically falling apart and deemed unsafe for use years before it was even paid off.
• rsynnott 3y ago
  You'll be glad to hear that it's gone now, though the replacement isn't particularly inspiring. That sort of thing was definitely the low-point of Dublin's architecture, though; awful building.