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For everyones convenience i’ve cut and uploaded the supplied images that went with the planning permission. I haven’t had the time to go through the rest of the documentation but will do over the coming days.
@ToMuchFreeTime wrote:
For everyones convenience i’ve cut and uploaded the supplied images that went with the planning permission. I haven’t had the time to go through the rest of the documentation but will do over the coming days.
thanks!
is that the actual water st bridge or one the developers have stuck in to indicate the bridge’s location?@who_me wrote:
A lot more information is now in the MCP planning application. Check out docs 13 and 15 particular in the EIS in for images and information on the layout. It’s a very impressive proposal (and an impressive document!).
p.s. the structure on the roof of the tower appears to be a wind turbine.
thats a delicate thing to engineer. hope its of practical of use rather than as a “statement”
btw, i’ve often tried to open those planning links on a mac, in safari and firefox, but it never seems to work. any suggestions?@rofbp wrote:
btw, i’ve often tried to open those planning links on a mac, in safari and firefox, but it never seems to work. any suggestions?
Yea it’s annoying. Not sure why the City Council doesn’t simply use PDFs rather than LizardTech (never seen anyone else use this).
From what I can tell I can only download the LizardTech plugin for Internet Explorer. There doesn’t seem to be one for firefox or safari.
I use firefox as my browser. There is an add-on you can download called IE Tab Plus which opens a new tab within firefox but it’s using the Internet Explorer browser engine. It means I can view the planning docs within firefox without having to start up explorer separately.
Not sure if the above will work on a mac though.
Look it’ll be years and years til built but I hope this gets planning now. Its a start if/when things do pick up.
@rofbp wrote:
thanks!
is that the actual water st bridge or one the developers have stuck in to indicate the bridge’s location?I’ve seen a previous image (unrelated to the MCP proposal) with the same design for the Water Street bridge, so I think that is the proposed design alright. I’m not sure about the materials though.
Of course, until anyone has the budget to build the thing, any ‘proposed design’ is a bit meaningless.
@rofbp wrote:
thats a delicate thing to engineer. hope its of practical of use rather than as a “statement”
btw, i’ve often tried to open those planning links on a mac, in safari and firefox, but it never seems to work. any suggestions?Works “fine” here. (The document resizing is always a bit off, and sometimes the site seems to go down and you have to go back to the query page), but it works.
@barneymagee wrote:
Yea it’s annoying. Not sure why the City Council doesn’t simply use PDFs rather than LizardTech (never seen anyone else use this).
From what I can tell I can only download the LizardTech plugin for Internet Explorer. There doesn’t seem to be one for firefox or safari.
I use firefox as my browser. There is an add-on you can download called IE Tab Plus which opens a new tab within firefox but it’s using the Internet Explorer browser engine. It means I can view the planning docs within firefox without having to start up explorer separately.
Not sure if the above will work on a mac though.
The link at the bottom of the page states IE only, but if you follow it you can download a plugin that’ll work on Safari on the Mac. PDFs would be so much simpler.
I read on boards.ie today that a €750m scheme for the docklands was granted planning permission but not sure where it was announced, anyone know? Not that I’d expect to see any progress on this for many years mind you.
The images look like the ones put around for Wycherlys development on the Marina Commercial Park site (ex-Fords)
I spotted in the Echo this evening that Cork City Council have appointed REDscape and Okra Landscape Architects to design the Marina Park.
The REDscape website has some details and pictures: http://redscape.ie/project/redscape-and-okra-landscape-arch/
There aren’t any details on the Okra website yet: http://www.okra.nl/I know there was some speculation on the Pairc Ui Chaoimh thread on the setting of the stadium in the new park. I wonder if the pictures on the Redscape website bear any resemblance to the Scott Tallon Walker design for the stadium.
Is it my imagination or is the Atlantic Pond bigger in this design?
The REDscape website also mentions the other groups involved in the design:
Landscape architects OKRA and REDscape, in association with O Connor Sutton Cronin (engineers), Venhoeven CS (architects), Howley Hayes (conservation architects), Fehily Timoney (environment and ecology), Modus Operandi (art consultants), and Davis Langdon PKS (quantity surveyors) will work closely with Cork City Council on this project.
Second picture: Pretty short on details
There’s also a press release on the city council website: http://www.corkcity.ie/news/mainbody,53513,en.html
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