Convention centre
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@reddy wrote:
Well if you’re taking all of Dublin as a wider context then surely a precedent for major, monumental public buildings strung along the river does exist.
Custom House? Probably too epic but i’m in a contrary mood 😉
@Paul Clerkin wrote:
But Greg the NCC design has been kicking around for ages now… when was the oral hearing? 2000?
yep indeed, I meant that the glass cylinder atop of the building across the river is a reference to the glass cylinder of the NCC now finally being buit.
item from fridays news – some views from inside including the new luas bridge
http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0123/6news_av.html?2480345,null,230Interesting to note that architectural quality was never mentioned in that report. (That’s equally a comment on the convention centre itself, RTE’s interest in architecture and RTE’s perception of what people want to hear) Sad that no one involoved seems to care as long as you can move a 40ft container up to the exhibition space.
I noticed at the end of the segment they mentioned that they still wanted to build a 35 story high hotel behind the centre – I thought that this had been killed off completely, or is it still up for debate?
@Contraband wrote:
I noticed at the end of the segment they mentioned that they still wanted to build a 35 story high hotel behind the centre – I thought that this had been killed off completely, or is it still up for debate?
Yea well you know what up for debate means in Ireland.”Sure we will have a talk about it,approve it, get everyones hopes up, wait 5 years until either the economy collapses or everyone in the area demands it be stopped and lower the height to 6 stories or just don’t build it at all.”:D
In other words, i wouldn’t hold your breath 🙂
yeh were you on a pub crawl last night? this is like 3 threads updated. good work
Go on. Upload the pics of you n yer mates plastered 🙂
ohhhhhh fancy, i can just imagine you being awe struck looking at them while being stoned off your head, haha:D:D:D
Thank you for the photo ihateawake. I did not realise the project was far advanced. Does anyone know of the completion date for the centre?
think it’s 2010 with the first event taking place in 2011, but by the looks of things, it may finish before that.
@cgcsb wrote:
think it’s 2010 with the first event taking place in 2011, but by the looks of things, it may finish before that.
wouldn’t necessarily say that although it is motoring along nicely – the fit out of the interiors for a venue like this will be enormous in scale and intricate in detail.
According to the website ww.theccd.ie, it’s due to open Sep 2010.
They’ve gotten some big conferences already lined up.http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_10009784.shtml
Are there any plans for this building online? I’m curious to know what’s going on behind those huge expanses of blank stonework.. and will the interiors have to be artificially lit 24 hours a day?..
Well, I’m guessing that being a conference center there will be at least one if not several auditoriums, therefore no windows in those areas, and there are big chunks of windows on the sides as well as the massive glass drum, so I don’t think it would be all that dark and gloomy inside :confused:
I think there was a link to a video of the place in one of the threads about it that showed a bit more inside detail? Will try to locate it…@dermot_trellis wrote:
Are there any plans for this building online? I’m curious to know what’s going on behind those huge expanses of blank stonework.. and will the interiors have to be artificially lit 24 hours a day?..
Plans on theccd.ie (why they bothered to include ‘the’ as part of a major domain name i’ll never know).
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