Academy St Development
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OK, so not sure of the name (Opera Centre?). This behemoth of assembled sites is beginning to emerge from it’s scaffolding…
A contribution: **new** street emerges
but like Dunnes, for one good side street we get this on the other side
actually that last post might be Dunnes… ooops!
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Patrick St presence surprisingly minor. Must. Assemble. More. Sites. Next. Time 😉
Academy St itself…
Maybe its the beautiful weather but that doesn’t look too bad. The scale seems appropriate and it knits into the existing fabric reasonably well. It’ll be interesting to see it finished. Thanks for the pics.
Thanks for the images.
It seems to be coming together nicely. I think, once the Patrick Street facade emerges, we’ll see that it was a mistake to remove the old Examiner Office building. It’ll be great to view the Crawford through ( a now widened ) Faulkner’s Lane.
The Patrick Street side of Dunnes looks impressive, but the side streets and rear of the Dunnes development is shaping up to be predictably awful. Activity on these streets is going to be limited given the lack of shopfronts.@Radioactiveman wrote:
the side streets and rear of the Dunnes development is shaping up to be predictably awful. Activity on these streets is going to be limited given the lack of shopfronts.
Was that inevitable given the increased space given to Faulkers Lane? (ie they weren’t going to give up floorspace/footprint if they could avoid it?!) And will the miserable side street be used as service entrances etc, which do need to be dealt with somewhere?
@Radioactiveman wrote:
Thanks for the images.
It seems to be coming together nicely. I think, once the Patrick Street facade emerges, we’ll see that it was a mistake to remove the old Examiner Office building. It’ll be great to view the Crawford through ( a now widened ) Faulkner’s Lane.
The Patrick Street side of Dunnes looks impressive, but the side streets and rear of the Dunnes development is shaping up to be predictably awful. Activity on these streets is going to be limited given the lack of shopfronts.Should all those streets as far as the river now be pedestrianised apart from deliveries.They are quite narrow and limited parking.It would really improve that part of the city.The lane between the new Dunnes and The Savoy seems like a lost opportunity to get some life and light into that lane.
Whats the word on occupants?
H&M along with Topshop/Topman are signed up. I heard rumours of HMV moving from Patrick Street.
Any other ideas?@Radioactiveman wrote:
I heard rumours of HMV moving from Patrick Street.
I heard HMV could well be moving from their current premises, but the old Virgin Megastore was the rumoured destination.
Much of the scaffolding and hoarding has now been removed from the Patrick Street facade. It makes Le Chateau look ridiculous, especially the stone steps to the first floor. The interaction of this new development with old at this particular location is an absolute failure.
@Radioactiveman wrote:
Much of the scaffolding and hoarding has now been removed from the Patrick Street facade. It makes Le Chateau look ridiculous, especially the stone steps to the first floor. The interaction of this new development with old at this particular location is an absolute failure.
Typical. Any photos?
Re: the green and red tiled facade on academy street, was that always there? it’s very pretty
The tiled bit was always there.
I’m trying to recall what it used to be like. If I’m correct, the windows directly above the tiled are were there before the development too, but I think the floor above that has been added.
you know i’m really looking forward to seeing the Patrick St facade, does anyone have a render of what it’s to look like?
also, are there any shop fronts facing the opera house/lane side? if not thats a massive shame, all those smaller alleys have the potential to be another french church st or better. the last thing we want to do is, well, firstly homogenise our city blocks, but secondly orientate those milk cartons solely to the widest street available. this. is. not. a. grid. city.
.Render…
to be fair in that particular render it looks all right, a bit flash but hey.
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