Busaras revamp
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Major revamp for Busarus
THE Busaras bus terminal in Dublin is to get its biggest ever revamp in its 50-year history.
The move by Transport Minister Seamus Brennan to give a major facelift to the landmark the celebrated northside building will provide improved passenger facilities, including a large new bar/restaurant area.
Around six million people throng through Busaras every year, making it one of our busiest locations. The Michael Scott landmark (one of our most acclaimed post-War buildings) is, however, long overdue an overhaul and the ministerial move is indeed timely.
“The building – heralded as a milestone in modern architecture in the 1050s – looks tired now and needs refurbishment,” CIE chairman John Lynch affirms. “Apart from modernising the passenger concourse, lifts will be installed for wheelchair access among other improvements .”
CIE chief architect John Clancy explained that Busaras is a listed building. So the revamp will be primarily internal, although the existing external canopy will be upgraded. Passenger information systems are being updated in line with latest computer methods, while the passenger waiting area will be relocated to the Store St entrance.
Departure gates will be automated, while new enhanced lighting will be provided in the extended concourse area. The present retail area will be doubled to around 1,000 sq m, while a 400 sq m bar/restaurant area will be provided at first floor level.
Preliminary work will commence shortly, but the main refurbishment is pencilled in for after Christmas. The revamp will be completed by the second of half of next year, subject to planning permission. Around €1.7m is being allocated for the project.
I don’t like the sound of this….. how do you upgrade the canopy? enhanced lighting? the main passenger concourse would be easily restored to the state it was after completion – the building then allowed for many retail units and a bar and restaurant….
anyone details of the planning permission…. i’m thinking I may get on off my arse on this one….
When I reread this, I am deeply worried… which canopy are they goiung to fuck with? the one over the bus yard or the one over the main entrance… each is as intrinsic a part of the design as the other…
how much is a submission against planning permission?
Originally posted by Andrew Duffy
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Some quick off the top of my head thoughts
http://www.p45blogs.net/dublin/archives/000622.htmlWow. “Overhaul”, “modernising”, “upgraded” these are certaintly not words I like to see in plans for a listed building. (Sounds like they have their eye on the ilac canopy that could find a new home down on store street or something.)
The article also says
“CIE chief architect John Clancy explained that Busaras is a listed building. So the revamp will be primarily internal”.
Judged on that statement alone it would be fair to interpret Mr. Clancys understanding as being if a building is listed you just have to hang on to the facade. That would be scary stuff. I’m sure he has been misquoted or something. As a chief architect he surely understands the full extent of what protection is implicated by the protected structures list.
A first step [particularly if the planning application is available yet] could be to ask John Clancy to clarify his statement. Have you ever met the guy on your research Paul?
God no!!! Connolly while welcome is very cheap and tacky. A clean up of Busaras yes, but don’t wreck it!
Paul – where is that quote from? Haven’t seen that in the papers. I presume an application hasn’t actually been lodged with DCC yet.
I’ll lay you good odds that An Taisce and the Irish Georgian Society will say nothing about this unless the renovations propose uPVC georgian windows being installed
great thesis, by the way, paul. i read through it one weekend and then spent a few hours checking out the building.
I doubt the overhaul will be anything greater than a scrub up – the budget seems miniscule for anything more involved.
it would be precisely the lack of any decent budget that would cause the most damage…
ask any conservationist, a sledgehammer is cheap…
‘The building is listed so the works will be primarily internal’
Brilliant!
That’s a quote for the record books!
Did you ever hear anything like it?!I can easily see the slatted ceiling inside the concourse being the first feature to be ripped out, this application must be got hold of straight away.
I’ll keep gaurd if you like, I come out of Connolly every morning and pass by.
I’ll stick my head in every day when/if the works get underway!
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