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Plans could create Dublin showcase - or disaster

Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2001 / March 08 2001: Plans could create Dublin showcase - or disaster

World famous architects are queuing up to design the extensive range of sports and leisure facilities at the Abbotstown sports campus site. But is it all moving too fast? Laura Magahy, whose busy consultancy firm is providing executive services for the controversial Sports Campus Ireland project, believes that its showpiece stadium will be an "architectural gem". And judging by the list of superstar architects in the running to design it, there is every reason to suppose that she might be right. But buildings can be gems and, at the same time, useless. The one that springs to mind is Arthouse in Temple Bar, a legacy of Ms Magahy's previous project - to create Dublin's cultural quarter. Nobody would dispute that this is a fine building, but what goes on there? What is it used for? Does anybody really know?

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