Raymund Ryan visits the spectacular Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin’s Docklands designed by Daniel Libeskind and Dublin’s McCauley Daye O’Connell.
Deconstructivism had a rather negative ring to it, even when it was the fashionable creed for certain urbane architects and oh-so-earnest architecture students a quarter century ago. Curious then that one of the seven architects included in that much ballyhooed exhibition, ‘Deconstructivist Architecture’, at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1988, an architect who had built even less than his peers, should have always seemed so positive, so constructive in the face of criticism and frequent bewilderment on the part of the public.
