Down with trees.
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Another highly improper group of trees block the Gandon portico of the former House of Lords which faces on to College Street. That area in general is a mess, despite having fine buildings around it. The “Meeting of the Waters” as its called, describes the fact that two underground disused toilets also cluter the area.
I wonder if it were possible to do way with the island and substancially widen the paths either side and find a new home for Thomas Moore. Afterall hardly any one knows he’s there, given the canopy of trees. Thus a new vista would be created as you enter College Green form Pearse Street.
I was thinking about this thread while doing Pana earlier, and it struck me that Beth Gali definitely got the trees right here. They are a really attractive green thread running through the middle of the street, without competing in any way with the existing gorgeous views of buildings such as Brown Thomas. 😀
Ah those infamous lights 🙂
Well at least not all big trees are bad, look at what the trusty old quay planes are conspiring to do, heheheh…
Oy ctesiphon, leave Trinity alone! Those chimneys are a design classic 🙂
Agreed about the architecture, but this is what makes it so charming, unlike its pretentious colleagues who shall remain nameless…
You can’t remotely appreciate the whole West Front anywhere except from outside the HoL portico and then only barely, as a result of those trees. Even when you’re on College Green itself you barely even realise this is a large urban space because the trees just cloak everything – just a cluttered mess to wade your way through as safely as possible (though that is another issue).Certainly trees have a strong role to play in urban environments, esp in negating carbon damage, and sometimes large clumps are just nice for their shady comforting properties rather than just having marching architectural sticks everywhere, like the Moore trees – still in two minds about these cause I like them for the shady leafy reason (and their Christmas lights :)), but hate them for what they do to the BoI.
I agree a proper strategy for planting trees in the city is required. When you think about it this city is realy devoid of trees, apart from those mentioned so far and those along the quays. I think that Westmoreland St would be fantasic as a uniformly laid boulevard with trees kept under control. The existing trees are a little straggly.
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