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Finally, I got a camera, and I will try to post pics of things in the city which I think should be commented on.
Here’s what I have for now. The Jury’s Montrose Hotel, Stillorgan Road, from the side. Apparently, the side that isn’t facing the road wasn’t given much attention. I heard this is actually a 4 star hotel, is that true?
Girl, that hotel or whatever it is looks like shite. Jurys hotels generally look like shite, have you seen the Jurys hotel in Ballsbridge, it looks even worse at the front than that one does from the back.
So what’s your problem with the Spike ? It’s the coolest thing in the whole town, and don’t start giving out about those marks on the base, they look good.
Next time send a GOOD example and a bad example and keep things in proportion.
The Montrose is interesting in that it keeps on being subjected to ‘face-lifts’. This latest incarnation is about 7 or 8 years old now (not sure exactly, but I remember it being done), and is beginning to look dated. This is why there is such a contrast between the front and the back of the building.
BG,
a useful observation about the treatment of hotels, and building skins in general from a point of view…. I will look forward to these observations of yours… I too have studied the Stillorgan road lately as I commute that way now.
I don’t know it myself… but could someone please inform me, as to what traditionally have been the ‘landmarks’ along the whole length of Stillorgan road… i.e. How do people normally distinguish, at what point of the whole length of the thing they are refering to?
Does the Montrose tower, TV transmission, steel, web-y thing gets cited alot as a landmark? I dunno this road at all, just wondering what to people use to orient themselves out around there?
Brian O’ Hanlon.
Wow you’re genuinely inquisitive….
Coming from Bray …cornelscourt from the old cabinteely road.. when you went to santa and got your new toy gun conficated because “that was the thing that shot john lennon”…… Ireland’s first dual Carriageway Foxrock… now sadly expanded(ired) ….Blakes…. those bits of chicken and getting used to the idea of eating out in the 1980’s… on and on until the flyover at UCD… still a major landmark as it’s the only stretch where people keep to 40mph. The RTE mast was the main thing … along with that really dodgy junction .. there always seemed to be glass over the road at that point. One of the other things was at night … entering into a tunnel of orange sodium lights… a true entry to a city.Interesting… I still make out that anything along this route, even with broken glass looks ten times cleaner and polished looking than the state in which Dame Street and similar city centre locations presently look – Dame Street/College Green are wearing the dirt and filt well… but they haven’t got that same cleaness of streets like Donnybrook, Lesson St. even….
Brian O’ Hanlon.
The Mount Merrion garden suburb from the 1930’s will be of interest I would imagine, get off the road and have a trip around the suburb, it’s like another world.
Just beside the Stillorgan Park hotel there is a gem of an Art Deco house. Recently a small block of apartments has been built beside it which is trying to echo its style slightly. It is not finished yet, but I think it is quite nice.
phil, I think I know which house you’re talking about. Is it the yellow one?
The weather hasn’t really helped the past few days, and I didn’t have much time to take pics, but here are some from last week.
View of residential area from my living room (I don’t know the names of communities). Sometimes I see smoke coming out of their chimneys, and I wonder how many chimneys big mansions with many fireplaces have. I don’t think I recall spotting a lot of chimneys on them. Are these houses made of wood?
The Heineken building in the city centre. I think if this building wasn’t there, the area would look very backward for a city centre. I consider it a good example, shaun.
Btw, I put in these pics from last week to try to stop garethace from blabbering and turning this into a 52 page thread with text and few pictures :p I think the major landmark for Stillorgan Road is the RTE tower, and an ugly white pedestrian bridge.
I love the AIB buildings on Amiens street or whatever it’s called. I’m sure Archiseek already has a picture of them but the administrator will ban me if I display pics from his server and waste bandwidth.
Never thought Jim Gogarty could be beaten in the wandering stakes til now!
Dublin’s 50s semi-ds are usually of breeze block construction.
Yes mansions do have many chimneys – Castletown has over 90 hearths – with chimneys often concealed behind parapets or flues sharing exposed stacks.
The white pedestrian/cyclist bridge is another good landmark, most reports on the news relating to traffic are inevitably shot from here.
O’ Cll Bridge House – enough said…
Originally posted by BulldozerGirl
phil, I love the AIB buildings on Amiens street or whatever it’s called.The building you refer to is known as the West Block. It is the centrepiece of the three buildings that launched Dublin as a serious Fund Management location. It was built in 1989 by Hardwicke and compliments Busaras quite well.
One thing that always confused me were the names of the three buildings. IFSC (closest to the river) was correctly named the South Block, The International Centre was named the West Block, but La Touche house (clostest to Connolly station) was called the East Block when in fact it is clearly the most Northerly of the Three. :rolleyes:
Originally posted by phil
Just beside the Stillorgan Park hotel there is a gem of an Art Deco house. Recently a small block of apartments has been built beside it which is trying to echo its style slightly. It is not finished yet, but I think it is quite nice.They tore down the twin to that Art Deco Gem in order to build the apartment block, I posted a comment about it at the time but no one seemed interested.
Yes, I remember your other post. I could not remember the one which was destroyed to make way for the apartments. I had always only noticed the one that is still there. I still, to this day, cannot figure out why I never noticed the one that you are referring to.
Thanks
Phil
I have seen electricity or telephone wires (I dunno what they are really) on poles in the city in several places. I thought such sights were usually reserved for intercity highways or rural areas. What are these cables and why are they not running underground or wherever they should be?
Here is a pic of Kildare street (I think that’s the right name), where many supposedly high-class buildings are, and yet there are some cables running from one side of the street to the other. It’s very ugly.
Are the people in those buildings using plastic cup phones to communicate?
On the Stillorgan road, have a look at the poor old Esso Building – not ever a masterwork, but always well kept, in nice grounds, until very recently.
I thought I was going to be able to go out a lot this Easter vacation, but I couldn’t after I nearly killed my sis with wrong medication..
Anyway, I couldn’t stray far from home due to the circumstances, but here’s what I think is a nice shot of the Radisson SAS hotel.
I think it’s gorgeous.
Shock – lanterns in Dublin without CFL bulbs in them!
To be fair, the lines on Kildare St are the only ones in the city centre; they link the Shelbourne’s car park in that red Georgian across to the hotel – the internal phone system probably.
What are much more crude are further down the street, where loads of security cameras erected last summer were simply tacked onto the lamposts with the yellow wires draped across to the Ntl Museum and Ntl Library, with some wires even suspended between lamposts.
More refined work was carried out on Merrion St.Reality really is a bummer isn’t it?:)
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