college green/ o’connell street plaza and pedestrians
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Well, as expected ever since those floodlights went up a month ago on the giant scaffold covering the former Habitat premises, Abercrombie are taking advantage of their prime pitch on College Green by advertising their arrival to the city – and neighbouring planets – with a vast advertising banner depicting a scantily clad youngster in striking monochrome tones. It has to be said it is exquisitely finished – the canvas as taught, polished, nipped and tucked as yer man’s torso.
Of course the big boys get away with such enormously lucrative free advertising without a whimper from DCC, even though such an initiative could be used to restore historic buildings across the city if the will was there.
I have developed serious body issues as a result of the Aberzombie & Fitch poster. And since when did everyone start showing off their lack of pubes!? Should I be trimming :wtf:
Anyways….next door-ish, Danske Bank have today announced the closure of much of their branch network in Ireland including the beautiful College Green branch (or is this Dame Street?). Its likely to go up for sale…just like the imposing O’Connell Street branch which closed a few years back and has lain idle ever since.
Came across this on the great Come Here To Me blog http://blogtrotta80s.blogspot.ie/2007/07/james-joyces-land-august-1985.html
Check out College Green 1985 without the trees (or at least with baby ones). I havent figured out quite why the whole city seems deserted in the photos though.
I’d say some of those shots were a sunday morning … Dublin in my college years was always pretty quiet of a Sunday….
@GrahamH wrote:
Well, as expected ever since those floodlights went up a month ago on the giant scaffold covering the former Habitat premises, Abercrombie are taking advantage of their prime pitch on College Green by advertising their arrival to the city – and neighbouring planets – with a vast advertising banner depicting a scantily clad youngster in striking monochrome tones. It has to be said it is exquisitely finished – the canvas as taught, polished, nipped and tucked as yer man’s torso.
Of course the big boys get away with such enormously lucrative free advertising without a whimper from DCC, even though such an initiative could be used to restore historic buildings across the city if the will was there.
According to the Irish Times…
The Dublin banner has drawn criticism on grounds of taste, and council officials are investigating whether the four-storey advertisement complies with planning regulations.
The full story on the A&F phenomenon here http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2012/0714/1224320029446.html
Right, I’m off to the gym…
Re the new A&F store – A planning application has now been lodged to retain the building wrap advertising for a further 6 months while the facade is cleaned and restored. Wasnt it cleaned and restored in 2006 when Habitat moved in?
Yer man in the nip has been taken down from College Green. Anything to do with DCC?
When are they going to sort out the rest of the trashy signage in the ACAs? Westmorland Street looks like a complete dump!
See new post on Westmoreland Place, Ranelagh
That Exempted Development applications for neighbouring 35 College Green that Graham bewailed http://www.dublincity.ie/swiftlg/apas/run/WPHAPPDETAIL.DisplayUrl?theApnID=0114/12&backURL=%3Ca%20href=wphappcriteria.display?paSearchKey=1779550%3ESearch%20Criteria%3C/a%3E%20%3E%20%3Ca%20href=’wphappsearchres.displayResultsURL?ResultID=2196394%26StartIndex=1%26SortOrder=APNID:asc%26DispResultsAs=WPHAPPSEARCHRES%26BackURL=%3Ca%20href=wphappcriteria.display?paSearchKey=1779550%3ESearch%20Criteria%3C/a%3E’%3ESearch%20Results%3C/a%3E
A&F own application to retain the signage…no decision made yet
Personally it wasnt that big a problem…but as someone said why not charge for the licence to erect these temporary hoardings and then put the money into the crap public realm here…narrow broken pavements, clutter, crappy bike lockup, trees gone mad…and of course the still to be completed lighting scheme.
The wrap advertising on Doyle pub has also been taken down…assume O’Connell Street followed.
Its a pity DCC interest didnt extend a little farther down Westmoreland Street
Its now a year since the new public lighting scheme project commenced on College Green…a year. I wonder is there an allowance for that?
Meanwhile…
Seeing those pics of Dublin from the 80s makes me think how much better College green would look without the trees in it. Perhaps it’s just me but didn’t a dirty sooty TCD look a little bit more distinguished…
I see repaving taking place in front of the new Abercrombie & Fitch store. But no increase in the width of the pavement and no doubt all the bike stands and associated clutter will all go back in.
Also, following Graham’s comment about, Dubarry’s are now refurbishing the adjoining premises.
Well there was a rash of activity about College Green yesterday but unfortunately the sum of all these parts fails to deliver the quality space we are all seeking.
The scaffold is now down on the former Bank of Ireland building to reveal a pristine facade. The landing to the front of the building has been redesigned to provide a wheelchair ramp and the ornamental lighting to the front is being refurbished. I hear that the store will open in November just in time for the build-up to Christmas
Next door, Dubarry’s is under wraps but seems to be getting a buttery yellow paint to the front. I also imagine they will open in November.
While Sierra and Richard Whatshisname are doing the sporadic (and not particularly good quality in my view) pavement works about the city at the moment, including along Dame Street, it was a DCC team that were doing the pavement works in front of the A&F store yesterday. Unfortunately, there is no change to the width of the pavement, no re-alignment at that uncomfortable pinch point in front of Books Upstairs, the random bollards are all being put back in – randomly, no rationalisation of the bus stops. The usual missed opportunity.
DCC Lighting are still tapping away at their lighting scheme…over a year later. Its absolutely ridiculous. I would also hazard a guess that it will remain ‘uncompleted’…it looks like a couple of proposed locations have been repaved over (in front of Ulster Bank and in front of Trinity close to the Provost House). Trinity are also still missing their front lamps.
No effort to reduce clutter and acquired crap about the space…phone boxes, telecom cabinets, signage. The trees are still an issue and continue to languish in their ugly tarmac bases…I wonder will they be removed with the Luas works?
Poor old College Green!
for the love of God something must be happening in this city other than footpaths, lighting and signage
Will someone please think of the children
No doubt DCC won’t bother doing any improvements to College Green until the RPA have finished laying down tracks. It’ll be a handy excuse for them to delay things for another 5 years. Classic.
Here’s a PDF of the alignement.
@Morlan wrote:
No doubt DCC won’t bother doing any improvements to College Green until the RPA have finished laying down tracks. It’ll be a handy excuse for them to delay things for another 5 years. Classic.
Here’s a PDF of the alignement.
Again we separate our grandest buildings from the public. There’s a potential FOUR crossings there for pedestrians to get from the Bank side of College Green to the Trinity side and very little footpath room at the gates to the college too. Just as it’s impossible to get a photo of either St Patrick’s or Christchurch cathedrals without being splattered by oncoming traffic, now tourists have to run the Luas gauntlet to get a decent snap of the old school
It has been repeated here many times, but this area should have been pedestrianized and the Luas extension ditched (or a spur down Nassau St and onto Westland Row or whatever)
The only way the Luas is acceptable here is if there’s an otherwise total pedestrianization of the Green. Traffic AND Luas PLUS People does not a happy civic space make
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