Dominant on Amien St
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Oh Christ that looks horrific! What a rude, ugly, obnoxious bollox of a development. Are buildings for Dublin designed in an environmental vacuum. Context? Sympathy? all concepts lost in this one…
Whats proposed looks like serious over-development of that site imo – and again the conceptually lazy use of zig-zag windows…and whats the story with that roof?
But I might be wrong and Id like to see other elevations. Five Lamps is an interesting place at the moment; Basil Goods tall development seems to work quite well – in sharp contrast to the brownbrick development containing the Centra opposite, which is so ghastly that Im suprised no-ones yet popped a snap of it here!
The area is undergoing a serious revamp at the moment; the currently derelict Aldborough House (the last great Georgian townhouse to be built in Dublin) was last year acquired by doctors – so hopefully that will bode well for a template restoration. Also adjacent are the recently refurbished Killarney Gardens, a 1930s corpo scheme that now looks really well 🙂
On the whole the Amiens Street axis is undergoing significant regeneration – whereas Dorset Street just got some trees and lights while the buildings are increasingly derelict, happily it is the physical fabric of Amiens Street that is getting the attention. Not all change will be easy, but on the whole I think it is desireable that density be significantly increased – provided that the replacing material and form is of top quality,
Heres one I like, one of the rare cases where the current trend of zig-zag windows doesnt create an overwhelming cluttered effect – and as a result will imo stand the test of time:
@GrahamH wrote:
A development that has just been completed nearby is 110 Amiens Street, by Niall D Brennan Associates.
More of these please Mr. Niall D Brennan – and bring a few up to Dorset St while youre at it! 🙂
it makes me somewhat uneasy to say the least that this development sets a dangerous precedent when georgians in a relatively good state of repair can be torn down to through this shit up…
I think there are parallels to be drawn with Ballsbridge of the 1970s. Slender proposals such as the above, soley located at major nodal points do have a role to play, unlike the bloated all-consuming Ballsbridge blocks that completely destroyed the character of that suburb. The workability of the above scheme is entirely dependant on how it interacts with development across the road, and I can’t picture that the minute without standing on the spot. I think the abstract character of the building actually highlights the beauty of the adjacent classic Dublin terrace.
There are however reservations over the accuracy of the above image. It’s difficult to believe that an office building with roughly the same floor heights as Georgian domestic is so piddling in overall scale. The floors look tiny adjacent to what is a modest residential building. Either it’s the angle of the photograph, or the photomontage is deceptive. It’d be worth contrasting that image when/if it is built.
The building looks nasty in that picture.
Someone asked me the other day about this building, it appears in the background of one of the pictures above and is 102 or 103 Amiens Street. I can’t find anything about it, which is strange because it has quite a bit of presence, a strong late-Victorian civic form. Does anyone know anything about it, when was it built, what was it built for?
Former railway postal sorting office I believe – if you’re on the platforms at Connolly, you can see where it once had its own sidings. I seem to recall An Post selling it in the 1990s.
I got knocked off my bike right in front of it in 1992 by someone turning left and not looking.
That was off the top of my head.
1892 – Designed by J. Howard Pentland as a parcels office. Pentland designed many postoffices for the Board of Works usin the same red brick and stone dressings.
A few other works by him – I probably have photos of others but unsure of architect to be definitive
https://archiseek.com/?s=J.+Howard+PentlandBrilliant, thanks, you’re a star.
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