developments in cork
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I also think 21 lavvitts quay is a great development and adds to the city the thing is we need to move forward with innovative and appealing buildings. The city needs to get rid of the derilict buildings and at last that seems to be happening. When they revamped the front of the opera house they should have looked at the wall facing the quay because as they say dont judge a book by its cover the inside could do with a major revampl aswell.
Does anyone know where Rockfell Investments are based as I cannot seem to find a number for them in connection with the guy building.
Did you see that Tom McCarthy has got the go ahead for a major development in Macroom does anyone know who is going to build it.
@securityman wrote:
I also think 21 lavvitts quay is a great development and adds to the city the thing is we need to move forward with innovative and appealing buildings. The city needs to get rid of the derilict buildings and at last that seems to be happening. When they revamped the front of the opera house they should have looked at the wall facing the quay because as they say dont judge a book by its cover the inside could do with a major revampl aswell.
Does anyone know where Rockfell Investments are based as I cannot seem to find a number for them in connection with the guy building.
Did you see that Tom McCarthy has got the go ahead for a major development in Macroom does anyone know who is going to build it.
Rockfell Investments is owned by the O Donoghue Ring family who own Munster Joinery in Ballydesmond. The address used in the planning application is Lacka Cross, Ballydesmond.
Tom McCarthys job in MAcroom hasnt gone out for tender yet so no contractor has been selected.
I’m sure I saw very similar deisgn building in Brussels or Strasbourg
Not sure what building in Cork you’re referring to, but the building currently seeking planning for Revenue looks very similar to one on Rue Belliard (on the left as you head from Froissart towards town (or the European Parliament) in Brussels, right down to large wooden beams running vertically inside the glass front. As for as I know its a Commission building of some kind.
@securityman wrote:
Does anyone know where Rockfell Investments are based as I cannot seem to find a number for them in connection with the guy building.
Did you see that Tom McCarthy has got the go ahead for a major development in Macroom does anyone know who is going to build it.
Rockfell Investments,
c/o Munster Joinery,
Lacka Cross,
Ballydesmond,
CorkAs far as I know, and I’m open for correction on this, so feel free – but Munster Joinery’s construction (Darragh Dubh – is it?) element are constructing the project themselves…anyone???
bunch – yes the image is taken from an eastern perspective looking west. The bus station is right and No.6 Lapps Quay is to the left.I’ll do my best to get more images in the future – the project is now in Further Information.
sw101 – do you have an images you could share of the ‘Gallery’ you design which helms some resemblance to the DAT Partnerships building? :confused: ๐ฎ@Devin wrote:
Provided they can integrate and co-exist happily…….which is not the case on Lavitt’s Quay in my opinion.
That’s fair enough. Though given the dreadful multi-storey car parks just behind the quayside, I think that area is a prime candidate for some taller buildings to mask them. With those in place, No.21 shouldn’t look so out of place.
I do agree with you on No. 16 wholeheartedly, I don’t care much for it at all.
@Aidan wrote:
Not sure what building in Cork you’re referring to,
i was talking about the one proposed by DAT partnerships
@lexington wrote:
sw101 – do you have an images you could share of the ‘Gallery’ you design which helms some resemblance to the DAT Partnerships building? :confused: ๐ฎ
i threw out that portfolio years ago. utter rubbish. who are DAT partnerships, architects?
DAT – drug action teams – they are big buzz across the water. Maybe that explains why the building looks like the bowl of an enormous hash pipe.
A large residential development site near Curraheen Greyhound Stadium at Riversdale in Bishopstown is believed to have been sold for a figure in excess of 11m euros to Declan O’Mahony’s BrideView Developments. The 6-acre site, abutting the new Ballincollig By-Pass, had been guiding at a figure of around 10m euros through auctioneers Irish & European. The site comes with full planning permission (attained by former owner Jerimiah Lynch) for a high-density residential scheme of 123 units, creche and community centre designed by Murray O’Laoire Architects.
“The accommodation is comprised of dual aspect apartments, own door access duplex units and รขโฌหempty nesterรขโฌโข units, designed to appeal to persons downsizing from larger dwellings in the area,” according to MOLA. “The proposed development will articulate the transition in scale from the domestic scale of the suburban housing to the grand scale of the new Bypass. The design will form a landmark when viewed from the roadway, denoting the western extent of the greater Cork conurbation. Buildings are planned around the perimeter of the site, enclosing a parkland type interior which terminates in a boardwalk running parallel to the Twopot River.”
I’ll try and get some better images sometime in the future so that the design can be assessed in better detail.
๐ Okay I know this is a little off the canter, but it’s nice to see O’Callaghan Properties are thinking outside the box. They are shortly applying for permission to change use, partly, of the ‘Tall Order’ restaurant which consumes a vast majority of the upper floor at their North Main Street Shopping Centre, for use as a skating rink! Whether that’s ice, skateboarding or a hark back to those classic days of 1970s roller-discos, I don’t yet know – but it should make for an interesting addition. At least their thinking beyond the standard residential, retail or office box – there’s a whole other market out there that seems completely untouched, and its not associated with the aforementioned uses. OCP seem to be, with this plan, to be tapping into a shrapnel of this market.
Looks like I had better raid that dusty old cupboard for my old skates! – and look a right fool when I’m the oldest person there and everyone else has a skateboard. :p
I see Mick Murphy wasted no time in getting an objection in on the Frinilla building next to Top Motors.
i’ll be honest with you, and I’m not living so far away, i’ve no problem really with this building, its not stunning by any means but its not a bad design. I wont be putting on an objection to this after all this road is starting to suit these buildings and not with any great loss. However you can be darn sure if another student accommodation buildings like that lego brick along Victoria Cross was ever again proposed the council can have my twenty euros because that standard is not acceptable in this area or in any area at all. Also i would like to think that the plans for Dennehys garage at the crossroads – does anyone know who is behind that? – should be more befitting of the height of other buildings in this area. Maybe it could be higher facing the health board building but certainly closer to the junction it should be no more than three possibly four floors – that would depend on how well it looks. It would be nice for that development to be a gateway into the Victoria Cross area and the rest of the city and provide a nice border to the residential areas along Wilton road and Model Farm Road which should be preserved in their plesant suburban state. I would be most heartfelt about that.
๐ Riga Limited, the O’Callaghan Properties SPV, has lodged plans for a new pedestrian and vehicular bridge spanning between its Jurys Hotel redevelopment site and the Western Road. Under condition by ABP regarding the redevelopment, OCP were requested to re-apply for permission regarding the bridge connection. A decision date is set for September the 8th 2005. The bridge is designed by Henry J. Lyons & Partners. Although construction is permitted, no persons occupying the apartment elements of the redevelopment will be permitted to habitat the new units until the bridge is complete. OCP plan to have the bridge up and ready well in advance of the Phase 1 completion.
๐ Lyonshall Ltd (Kieran Coughlan and Claire Riordan) have been granted permission to develop an 80,000sq ft (approx) 3 to 4-storey mixed use building designed by O’Mahony Pike Architects as part of the Ursuline Convent redevelopment. The 1st Phase of the 500 residential unit development is set to begin in co-operation with Pierse Construction in the near future. The permitted building will provide a new discount retail store, library, 8 office units, basement car-park and 3 additional retail units.Following UL’s recent adventure into the provision of a new School of Architecture, it would seem that UCC and CIT are assessing the feasibility of such a school for Cork. 4 sites are currently being evaluated, one near the grounds of CIT and UCC’s Business Technology Hub near Curraheen, a further Northside site and 2 other locations. More details on that when/if I hear them.
:p Indeed, the aforementioned ‘skating rink’ planned for the North Main Street S.C., which saw OCP set to lodge an application, is intended for use as a 2000sq ft, synthetic ice-rink! Bill Cremin and a partner are hoping to bring the SKIDZ ice-rink to Cork in an innovative venture destined for the ‘Tall Order’ restaurant on the 1st floor of the S.C. The remaining restaurant will provide an associated theme dining ‘experience.’
You can thank the press for that info because to be honest, I didn’t know anymore beyond what was on the intended application for this one. Thanks!
Anyway, enjoy the weather – I’m off for a while so take care all!I was driving by Blackpool today and saw that PJ Hegartys are after putting up another tower-crane at Blackpool park – its the second one at a development that seems to be flying up. Does anyone know which this tower crane is working on? Is it the hotel? Or offices? The section with the first really tall tower crane seems to be constructing a building of 9 storeys high.
(Enjoy lex! :))
As far as i’m aware, the Hotel portion of Blackpool Park is long dropped after planning wrangles.
The crane now in place is working on a huge extension to the office space already in position. Apparently it is being considered for the Revenue relocation. Although i personally believe it is too far out for OPW to go for.Any news on the paperboy statue that was due to be reinstated?
I’ve got no news on it i’m afraid. As I mentioned in a post a few months back, it was due to be put in place opposite the old examiner office entrance on St. Patrick Street. But something must have happened because on the appointed day- no paperboy.
But, maybe the less said about ‘d paper’ on here these days the better :pMy sources tell me that City Planners are investigating complaint (s ?) against Frinailla Ltd. with regard to their Lady’s Well development. They had issued letters to residents in the area informing them that they intended to demolish parts of their sizeable complex of buildings in and around Watercourse Road, out in Blackpool.
This would (i’m told) be prior to a decision by An Bord Pleanala which is due in August on the future of the site. The company have plans for a mixed use development of apartments, underground parking, retail, gym and creche.
See here for an image of the proposed development. Frinailla’s Lady’s Well
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