developments in cork

Regarding the OPW move to Assumption Road, Blackpool. Check out the property and ‘local news’ pages of todays Irish Examiner for some photomontages of the new building- inside and out.
There’s no question of this site being a ‘nice green area’ being destroyed by development. I rememeber when it was all ‘nought but green fields’- but believe me we dont want to go back in that direction. What with the redevelopment of the Assumption convent and the neighbouring apartment complexes, this will be the icing on the cakefor Blackpool’s redevelopment.
The fact that 70% of the revenue staff are from the soutside is a non-issue. The new site is, at most a 20 min walk, 5 min bus or car ride away, and with the Kilbarry rail station due to open in the next few years (hopefully!) the revenue staff cant have too much to complain about.

This design was around since 2003 (I think) when permission was granted for the office block. Its only in recent time that it has been offered to OPW.
The design is straight lines, lots of glass facing into Blackpool Valley. Its scale and massing will complement the old mill building to the south and, because of the rising road level on the northern side of the site, should not impinge greatly on the assumption convent building or residents in that area. Im not sure of the buildings effect on the new homes being built directly above the site.
I like the design, in terms of height (four storey) it will fit nicely into slope and should fill out that side of the valley. Internally it appears from images i’ve seen, to be bright, airy and very ‘customer-friendly’.
A building which will have a positive effect on the area over all, I think.

I will attempt (no promises) to upload images of same.

I believe the developers were told by ABP that a “landmark” building is permitted on the site, but that “landmark” does not equal “tall”. A point I raised way, way back.

Did Lex have a falling out here? What’s the story? This was His thread!

@PTB wrote:

I’ve noticed some goings-on in the building on Paul street opposite the Bank of Ireland, The stone one thats set off of the street. Does anyone know whats going in there, or what the building is?

The Cornmarket Street development of course! The building you refer to is at the rear of the site.

@kite wrote:

:confused: Don’t know but he is badly missed. The way this thread is going one would get more up to date info in a history book.

Lads and ladies… what is happening with this thread… It’s falling away to nothing.. 🙁

Has any1 checked out the new site Lexington is calling his own… :confused:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=50688669#post50688669

And the last time he posted a message was two days ago, so he is obviously ok and alive, but not supporting this thread anymore. 😮

Lets all move to boards.ie 😀

Must say though it’s a lot harder to navigate around the site compared to archiseek… 😮

That site looks like a cheap knock-off of archiseek. Or is archiseek an excellent knock off of their site?:confused:

Anyhow Lex looks a bit isolated there among those people. I never knew how much we depended on him to keep this thread going. It almost dropped off the recent threads list last night.:(

I doubt many of you will be interested to know, but Cork International Airport handeled a total of over 2.730 million passengers in 2005. This places it ahead of Shannon Airport (2.4m passengers), making Cork Ireland’s second busiest airport. Good thing Terminal 2 is almost nearing completion, as far as I know it’s still on schedule and due to open in April.

@ewankennedy wrote:

Oh? Any more details?? What paper and whats it about?

:confused: I dont know how much truth is in the story but what i was told by the reporter was that Lex had a disagreement with the other 3 regarding some of the content on this thread. The dropping of the word Architecture from the thread title had something to do with the “barny” as well.
The reason i have any doubts about the above is that the Webmaster never posted any details on the matter, and CSD make no mention of any disagreement with Lex or Archiseek on their website.
The same reporter said that Lex may be moving to a new job this month, this may explain why he dropped off this thread..but why post on another forum??

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