Titanic Street Features
- 19 Jun 07, 11:49 AM
Anyone see Titanic Town on TV last night? I had a couple of reservations. Firstly, Glenn Patterson is criminally well preserved for a man of his age. Secondly, the plans for Belfast’s new quarter seem rather clinical.
Yes I know, architectural plans make everything look pristine and gleaming, but the vision of so many yachts tethered by the island where my grandfather laboured in oil and dirt seems mildly blasphemous. Maybe the real deal will have soul and humour and scruffy dimensions. If not, then it will become a kind of gated community, detached from the city life.
What killed the dream for me was architect who talked of setting in a chic café in the finished project, sipping on his frappuccino. I’m sorry, but that sounds like a bourgeois nightmare to me. Where’s the friction, the intensity, the clang of ideas? There’s always the danger that our new city will become overly smug about its sudden prosperity. And as Glenn pointed out, that’s the very moment that an unwelcome iceberg arrives to make another appointment with destiny and the Titanic myth.
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Totally agree with you about Glenn Patterson! Good looking, thin and intelligent.! Watched the programme and then caught a late night item about how Global warming is going to raise sea-levels higher than was thought! Belfast could have another Titanic! Lets face it , she sailed, she sank, so get over it! Notice no talk (as usual) about any sort of culture, theatre, art or music! Still, we live to shop, not shop to live! Or so we would be led to believe! Maybe I'm too cynical!
Gerry enjoyed the Joe Strummer film on Sat. morning. Better than the biography.
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I saw the programme too. I think it is jolly that something will happen down there at Titanic Quarter, as we are being encouraged to call it, but I like you pair do have some reservations.
First, the pictures I saw looked pretty final and that was the first time I had seen them. I think that, since we are the people the builders will want to attract, we should have some kind of input. Perhaps our lovely local architects could compete to design a good school or apartment block. I wonder if they have planned a school for their lovely green organic children or have families not been included?
Second, I may be wrong but are those little buildings along the bridge which crosses the Lagan near to the big fish not to prevent flooding? Like the ones in London? Well Titanic Quarter is in front of that. On what is effectively a big pile of mud which came from the bottom of the lagan a few hundred years ago. Does this sound good?
Surely our Titanic Quarter wouldn’t sink too. It would be unfortunate but nonetheless amusing.
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