The Crib

Our new house is still not quite finished outside but getting there. The scaffolding came off the front yesterday so I thought I'd post a couple of pics:

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Comments

[Dick OBrien]

Have to say, that's a pretty sweet looking gaff you've got there Frank.

[Frank McGahon]

Thanks!

[Hugh Green]

Very impressive indeed.

[Richard Waghorne]

Nice!

Congrats Frank!

[eoin]

Nice place, alright :-) You do this professionally, right?

[Preston]

Wow! That's really cool Frank! I know next to nothing about architecture, but the design really reminds of the Belmont Street Lofts here in Portland, Oregon.
See here:
http://www.holstarc.com/Belmont_Housing.html

[Caoimhe]

Whoo..seriously breathtaking, more pics asap!!! And the award for Best Irish Crib goes to....

loving the number on the door...

[Ciarán]

Marvellous place Frank! I'd sacrifice my Guardian, my muesli and my sandals for a gaff like this!

[ainelivia]

Way out and well done, really like the new house.

Any Corbusier influence at all when you designed this?

When I first saw the Corb house at Tiefenbrunnen in Zurich I fell in love with the design. Space and calm.

all the best for living there

[Frank McGahon]

Well there's always a subliminal Corb influence. Architects have a kind of way of internalising influences - ideas, hitherto stored in reserve appear to "suggest themselves" in the design process. Some of this is conscious, other times it's a kind of subconcious attachment to a particular arrangement which then turns out to have been inspired by x,y or z. In this case, there weren't specific examples at the time but I can identify one or two in retrospect such as the Villa Cook

[Gerry O'Sullivan]

Careful, Frank! Your new abode could become Dundalk's newest tourist attraction. :-)