Capel Street Bridge

The lamposts are terrible, and as for the seating, why does it face into the prevailing wind and rain direction?

i wonder will it appear like the sketches shown on the signs, when it is finally complete. The seating is quite strange. i hope those glass panels will end up with some sort of graphic or perhaps they are inended for advertisement display?
Paving looks great though, lights dont strike me as being all that suitable, but when the thre kiosks are in place they may appear better.

Have you seen the tactile paving used. Its neat with stainless steel studs inserted in the granite paving, same detail used at Ranelagh triangle. I hear however that its non compliant with guidelines and may have to be replaced with standard red concrete slabs. Shame.
JJ

The millenium bridge has similar non-slip slabs at the road edge, but there are no steel inserts, the raised bumps are also in concrete.
I think they look better like this although i was wondering whether they also meet the regulations as they are grey to match the surrounding slabs and i assumed the red colour that you see elsewhere is to assist the partially sighted.
The steel inserts on Capel Street Bridge look a bit fussy to me and i think the steel could be slippy when wet?

“Guidance on the Use of Tactile Paving Surfaces
Colour
The red blister surface should be used at controlled crossings only.
This will further assist partially sighted people to distinguish the presence of a controlled crossing point. It may also be of benefit to sighted pedestrians and may emphasise the presence of a crossing to vehicle drivers.
It is best to avoid using any other red material in the vicinity of a controlled crossing. Where this is unavoidable it will be necessary to provide a contrasting border around the blister surface contrasting in colour and tone. A border 150mm wide should provide sufficient contrast. Where there are conservation considerations an alternative colour for the tactile surface may be appropriate”

The glass screens on the seats have already been vandalised.
Graffiti is fast becoming a massive problem in this city. It won’t be long before a very famous building gets a very nasty makeover.

what famous building might that be????

No, I’m just worried that they’ll destroy one of Dublin’s finer buildings. That’s the way it went in NY and Paris, where they started to try and outdo each other with the scale of what they could vandalise

Went down there at lunchtime – for the amount of time and effort (and no doubt money) spent it was very disappointing.

As regards buildings getting graffitied check out the customs house (probably the finest building in Dublin) regularly graffitied by the ignorant junkie tossers that congregate around there. Disgraceful – but there is never anything done about this sort of thing.