Pearse Street, Dublin

@thebig C wrote:

Any pics of what the finished product is supposed to look like?

Yep, these are images of what the Biosciences Development will look like in 18 months’ time-

that is a side profile of how the place will look at street level.

another street-level picture.

this is a side profile of how the whole building will look upon completion.

and the Biosciences Development from the air!

bit of a shame the opportunity to competely rebuild this block in conjunction with Iarnrod Eireann’s development of the Underground at Pearse was lost….Looks like a decent design at the detailed level but decidedly underwhelming for a city centre rail station site. How shit do the sheds next door look!

@jdivision wrote:

Can I ask who the architect is? With plans by Sean Reilly to demolish the offices across the road it’d be interesting to see a before and after aerial view of the street.

I don’t know, but I do know that PJ Walls are the builders retained to build the edifice.

@thebig C wrote:

He Cathal

Thanks for posting the pics. I think it looks potentially very good. A little bulky perhaps, but a vast improvment on most of the buildings on Pearse St!

You’re very welcome! Yeah, it is a nice project but it is a little bulky. I suppose you can only make a laboratory building so aesthetically attractive – it has to be quite functional as well! I draw encouragement from the nice CRANN/Naughton Institute/Science Gallery building further up the street. That is a nice modern building built by Trinity – this looks to be good as well. Perhaps Trinity College are still in atonement for the horror that is the Arts Block!

The building is due to be signed, sealed and delivered come 2011. Watch this space!

I love the recessed . . *you can’t see me* . . three and a half storey penthouse level!

. . . and the grand civic entrance looks like it’s been designed with the roller shutter already in mind.

Pearse Street has been mentioned for the A1GP track!

@what? wrote:

Are you people mad?

The Arts Block is a masterpiece in comparison with these corporate behemoths.

The Arts Block is a masterpiece.

This isn’t; corporate is right, it’s the colleges own version of PPP, the developer gets half to let out, for 10 years, or so, in part return for building it. There will be a tesco on the ground floor.

And someone asked about the state of Nuzzum Bros above, there is a large plan for that whole side of the college, running from Luce Hall to the Beckett Theatre, which will retain the existing buildings along Pearse St, at the planners say-so lets note, and I guess the building stock won’t be refurbished until that goes ahead, which could be a while, the college’s fundraising is currently directed towards the biosciences building, the one being discussed here.

Well I might be getting confused too and the college is very cagy about it so it is hard to check, but I think, no, it was the facade of the terrace nearest the CRANN building, the facades from the row of Edwardian shop fronts was to be attached to six houses further north along the terrace. The earliest version of this plan had Nuzzum Bros and the Bicycle factory demolished, but, I think and hope I am right, this was dropped even before it went to planning and the craziness with the shop fronts was stopped at the planning stage. The big loss is lots of the internal fabric of the terraces and the nice red brick civil engineering building facing the rugby pitch, the plan otherwise looked very nice.

@Cathal Dunne wrote:

another street-level picture.

This particular diagram appears to show the (proposed) underground trains travelling approximately parallel to the current overground lines – i.e directly underneath them.

This doesn’t seem to fit in with the diagrams available for the current around-the-houses interconnector proposal from Irish Rail, where the underground lines would cross under the overground lines in an almost perpendicular fashion.

It’s all rather puzzling.