Nicole Dunphy
@pandorabell
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Owner at Pandora Bell and Corporate Let Limerick
Limerick, Ireland
Joined June 2009
Do Modernists simply not care about scale? Or are architects and architecture schools incapable of teaching it? Tschumi fail @ Athens
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The prompt was to go 2x the density with historical architecture. The results are fascinating because they show how the detached single family and very small multifamily of San Francisco don’t scale up—unlike the perimeter blocks with medium multifamily of limerick. Perimeter
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“Car Free Streets” would get a whole lot more support if we rebranded them as “Family Friendly Streets”. When people want to stay in the city to raise their kids, they often move to a very-low-traffic side street.
The demand for car free streets, even in some of NYC’s densest working class neighborhoods is evident.
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Everyone has a different view of what Heaven looks like. Here is mine.
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I was saying to someone today that I’m bullish on dark wood furniture making a comeback, mainly because every modern home now looks like a Scandinavian hospital.
the predominate aesthetic expression of post lockdown america is the airport lounge. every new restaurant looks, feels, and serves the food of an airport lounge. homes are decorated like airport lounges, the entire visual environment of our great nation has become AMEX PLATINUM
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Feels like a fun time to say that @boys_nicholas, the brilliant founder and chairman of @createstreets, is writing a book for @stripepress! Density and beauty can and do coexist in many places around the world, and should in many more.
This slice of Paris is new. Every mote of it. New homes and places don't need to be loveless. We chose to create ugly places because we don't ask: is this humane? Is this lovely? Is this kind? But we can afford to. If we dare to to slip the surly bonds. You can...
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This. 100% This.
Fantastic letter to the paper . Arresting the decline of the rural pub
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These guys are doing an excellent job within maddening regulatory constraints. They would of course look much nicer with bigger windows but builders get hammered by the state for such opulence.
Volume builders like Wyatt homes are leaning into the traditionalist revival. They deserve credit. But imagine how much easier it would be for them if there was a bonfire of housing regs!
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Every year Ireland has about 50, 000 Irish teenagers going straight from the Leaving Cert into third level. The rental market has never had enough beds for them. Not once in 25 years. It was already at breaking point. Then the government issued another 60, 000 visas to foreign
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Traditional architecture and human-scaled urbanism aren’t just trends, they’re a cultural shift
We’ve seen The Enlightenment lead to Romanticism Industrialization to the Arts & Crafts movement Modernism to Post-Modernism. We’re living in one of those times of transition from one movement to another, one defined by tradition, family, and faith.
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London-style mansion blocks being built in Dusseldorf, Germany by Sebastian Treese Architects. Even if London doesn't value its traditional architecture anymore, luckily others do.
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LAURA PERRINS: This week, a women's coalition against Immigration is preparing to launch in Dublin. For too long women have not said what is true: Migration from certain countries is a specific and real threat to us, far more than men: https://t.co/cscbG8NGL9
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There has been too much cowardice at being called racist around this issue.
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What's so utterly frustrating about Ireland, UK (& others) is that the current governing parties are so unpopular, that all you need to do to win is be a normal sensible party,and yet the opposition somehow position themselves in a way that is actually LESS appealing than a clown
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Let me introduce you to the city of the future
This slice of Paris is new. Every mote of it. New homes and places don't need to be loveless. We chose to create ugly places because we don't ask: is this humane? Is this lovely? Is this kind? But we can afford to. If we dare to to slip the surly bonds. You can...
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Traditional cities have gentle but ample exercise (we evolved to walk 6 miles/day) and low stakes interpersonal interactions (smile and wave at your neighbor, greet your barista who knows your order, complain about the weather to your favorite bread guy) built into daily life.
@2024dion I run a coffee shop and regulars whom I know have no other human interactions throughout their day sometimes ask if we’ll ever use one of the apps. My guy, no. Someone has to force you to interact with humans every day.
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If the city wants to do something productive, maybe reopen the plans for the Opera site. The tower there will be a far worse mistake than the IRE and the library building is REALLY awful… we can still fix that.
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