cork busarus
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the cork bus station was clearly influenced by busarus. when was it built, who designed it, does anyone know?
StephenC – your optimism rocks!
I don’t know who designed Cork Bus station, I think CIE have their own architects, and then get someone in to tart up their designs for actual construction (ala Tara Street)
i agree with a lot of what has been said about the city. It does need a lot of T.L.C. I’m not sure that it lacks a role or a purpose as was suggested though. Lets be honest, what is a cultural quarter? And what would it do for a city. If Temple Bar is a model, then I think, Cork should avoid it at all costs. The city will be a good test of the implementation of the National Spatial Strategy although I think that Cork, and other Irish ‘provincial’ cities should not merely rely on central govt. to secure future development.
There are signs of significant changes for the city. New transport infrastructure for instance, new airport development beginning in April, bus station, and public-private partnership development for the railway station which is a v. large scale mixed dev. which may be a catalyst for Docklands. These three developments should impact on visitor’s impressions and improve the image of the city. There is also a significant level of development pressure in city centre and on quaysides, where a few major devlopments are in, and through planning process. There are some interesting projects on the way.
The city has a very strong identity, i do not think it needs to manufacture one. Culturally, the city is extremely healthy, but this doesnt translate into tourist numbers or an international profile, yet. What Cork will need more than anything else, in order to become a thriving second city (regional capital not real) will be critical mass to underpin growth prospects, development and generate demand for changes.
Cork does have a strong identity but as a Corkperson I find it really dissapointing that this identity is really only a big chip on its shoulder against Dublin. ‘The real Capitol’, ‘Peoples republic of Cork’ —lets hope city architect Neil Hegarty does build the planned millenium bridge and these irritating people get over it!!
Cork is definately not culturally healthy though and while the cultural Capitol opportunity will give Cork a new Gallery in UCC by O’Donnell and Twomey, possibly a music school by Murray O’Laoire and an uneeded ‘millenium’ bridge, unfortunatly I think the Cultural capitol will generally be quite an embarrasment for all concerned.
Also on the point of promoting the Opera house, the Arts Councils budjet was recently slashed by the government and the pres. was recently speaking to Marianne Finoucan on how we now have too many performance spaces in this country in relation to the amount of actual travelling productions which are available to theatres to show. So while we now do have an audience for arts in this country we do not have any performers to watch! This is an embarrasing symptom of erratic government spending on the arts. They may be able to find the cash for a few buildings when there is a boom but are not prepaired to make a long term commitment to the arts.
why is the bus station not being not being incorporated into the redesigned train station??
what people want is to be able to change transport modes easily. I’m glad the An Post site is no longer being used, but I really hoped that they’d combine the bus and rail stations.
The location in Parnell place is too cramped – there’s no way the bus station could ever be adequately redeveloped on that site.In Leuven, Belgium there is a wonderful example of a combined train/bus station, as is Great Victoria Street in Belfast.
I’d also like to see them take measures to stop cars from entering the city centre – its a fairly small centre and it can be walked accross in 10mins. This could be done by allowing cars an easy way to go around the centre but not into it.
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