Blackhall Place Bridge
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Anyone see the social housing they have built in this locality…..Blackhall Place/Queen Street.
I think they are demolishing the old flats and are building these Lego style contemporary townhouses instead.
Pinkish terracotta in colour they look kinda good….well providing that the whole area is upgraded too in a similar style to set them off.
It would be good if someone could get a photo of themI think they are going to refurb the flats there as well
See the attached photo or Shay Cleary Architects site http://www.sca.ie
Sections of the new bridge are going to be winched into place from Saturday Sept 14 to Thursday 19 from the two opposing quays. Dublin City Council still say it will be finished by end of year, despite previous postings here.
The new Social Housing mentioned above are well worth wondering down there to have a look at. The Building design and colour really let a breath of fresh air into the street. The contrast with some of the older Corpo falts behind is striking.
The Global shift nowadays is to privatise everything with the mantra that the private sector can do things better than civil servants and the state. But If I were to make a list of my top five residential developements in Dublin in the past few years, the state would be responsible for them all. Maybe that’s just a relfection of the dismal breed of private developer we have in Ireland.
I’d love to see the City Council to become mush more involved with residential property in the City.
Anyone see those new flats….. aka social housing appartments for the public, that they are building in Bridgefort Street…….
Reddish/Brown Brick……..and kinda auld/nostalgic/pastiche looking.I saw this morning that more sections have been put in place ….it will look lovely……I wish they’d do something about the surrounding areas…….the house where Joyce’s short story The Dead (re… Dubliners) is set is still left derelict…….I thought heritage properties were going to revamp it……and as for Bargaintown’s establishments ..what a ramshackle disgrace……..I’d sue them if I were the Dub Council for the condition of their properties.
Can’t help but notice that Blackhall Place Bridge is very stumpy compared to what I’d thought. Looks nice but is much lower in height that what the original plans would led me to have believed.
According to DCC, they’re hoping to officially open it in January 6, which is the day that Joyce’s the Dead takes place on. Don’t know whether they’ll meet that deadline but it will be close.
Also, tenders for Macken St Bridge due to be advertised around end of this year with construction to begin middle of next Summer.
PS – Have a look at http://www.calatrava.com and see the Mercia bridges and then the Irish bridges – spot the difference.Good point kefu. Took me a while to find them though, so for the lazy…
Blackhall:
http://www.calatrava.com/1/BRIDGES/59.htmlThey’re the exact same images on Macken and Murcia but if you look at Murcia the image appears squeezed – wrong specified pixel width….. but also the Murcia bridge is half the length of the Macken Street bridge – these factors suggest to me that the wrong image has been inserted…
of course i could be wrong..
apparently the two bridges in Spain HAVE been built but I’ve not been able to find any on the Web so far.
Actually, I think I’ve just found one of them.
This looks like Blackhall Place Bridge:
http://www.inn.it/wellness/arredourbano/MURCIA/ponte1.jpg
Here’s the main page if anyone understands Spanish – http://www.inn.it/wellness/arredourbano/MURCIA/NuovaMurcia.htm
Speaking of buildings that look like other buildings (just in case anyone is interested). I noticed this one a good while ago. When I first saw National Gallery extension, I thought to myself that this looks extremely familiar. After a couple of months, I realised it bears a strong resemblance to Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona.
http://www.arcspace.com/kk_ann/2001_12_17/well that obviously just a case of the web guy getting the pictures mixed up… can happen to anyone !!
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