Blackhall Place Bridge
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Originally posted by Paul Clerkin
its a famine relief projectThe economy isn’t that bad (yet!)
I’m surprised it looks so well with the low arches. I was down there during the week and I was very impressed – a great (unfinished) job.
It would look better if it were finished. I dont really liek it anyway it seems unoriginal, too much like that bridge in newcastle. even similar to the footbridge in London.
unoriginality (or rather re-using designs) is now commonplace in dublin. As has been discussed before on this site; blackhall bridge and macken st. bridge (calatrava designs) are both copies of earlier bridges in europe…..i just wonder how much dr calatrava receives for such laziness………(this is not an attack on the bridge design).
Are there plans to demolish the buildings on the South side of the bridge and create a through route – or are drivers obliged to turn off coming fromthe Law society???
Cost over runs! Never!
It seems if there is one thing that can be guaranteed in today dog-eat-dog, capitalist utopia its ‘construction difficulties’.
Mind you I dont think the cost of a project almost quadrupling is too much to worry about…after all we are one of the world richest countries, aren’t we Charlie?
Originally posted by rperse
unoriginality (or rather re-using designs) is now commonplace in dublin. As has been discussed before on this site; blackhall bridge and macken st. bridge (calatrava designs) are both copies of earlier bridges in europe…..i just wonder how much dr calatrava receives for such laziness………(this is not an attack on the bridge design).This is an attack on the bridge design…..three words…..awful, awful, awful.
I’ve seen the designers bridge in Seville. It looks great – the bridge itself but also and equally important, the setting.
The Blackhall Place bridge is okay – I wouldn’t be mad about it. But the surrounding dull early 1990’s apartments does nothing to enhance the bridge and I’m afriad that on its own, its not that amazing (the designer has versions of this bridge in quite a few places and what make them, from what I’ve seen in photos and in person, is the back-drop).
Plus, its not worth EUR20 million (which is what the Irish Times are saying its going to end up costing)!
3 years to build this!
Stephen C, I totally agree, it is very suspicious that nothing ever gets finished on time or on BUDGET!
Penalty clauses should be the order of the day.
Add to that the fact that the bridge is a copy of another in Spain…so its not as if it hasn’t already been built! i.e. design hitches, unforeseen contruction problems etc.
The glass panels on the side of the footpaths will meet a smashing fate, I suspect…
I think the bridge looks “stupid”. An awkward addition to an historic location. Can’t see it lasting….
Okay so bridge isn’t all that original but I thought that it looked better than I expected. Especially in a 3/4 view where you can see the ‘hoops’ splayed.
Suprisingly it looks quite well from outside Walshes of Stoneybatter.. looking down the street to the river.
What are the least attractive/ugliest bridges across the river ?
The Matt Talbot memorial bridge or the
toll-bridge ?Is the awful toll-bridge ever going to be replaced ? Do the owners of the thing ever carry out any maintenance work on it, it looks and feels unsafe.
See according the Times recently that the original cost of this bridge was about 5 to 6 million……but it has run up to 20 million now. Someone somewhere is having a laugh. Just another example of the Rip-Off Culture.
What a rip off shit hole Ireland is …..everyone is out to rob you…..from the government to the publicans. What these c**nts do with all their money is beyond me …they certainly don’t spend it publicly either the tight fisted selfish robbing b*****ds. Shame on them all.
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