Dublin Metropolis – Artist’s Impression

The one aspect of the photomontage that I did like was the way the loop line went between the buildings on either side. There is something about the way a raised railway seems to slice between two buildings that I think looks really good.

Most of the new RTE dramas etc., or programmes that try to portray Dublin as a modern and happening city always seem to show those ‘pointy hat’ buildings on George’s Quay. Pity there’s feck all else to show. Watch the start of that new BowWow programme on RTE if you get the chance.

Maybe the new station on Tara street will add something new worth looking at on the Dublin ‘skyline’. I think they’re due to start building there this Autumn.

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It’s still a horrendously prescient view, sadly.

On a cloudy day the view is remarkably depressing – although watching the city’s weather rolling in from the west is facinating.

The idea of Dublin anything near Morlans great picture is frightening – reminicent of the initial Spencer Dock proposal. Some very tall landmark buildings away from the immediate city centre is what the city needs I think, adding defintion to the skyline whilst not impinging on the human scale of the city. I don’t like the idea of Tara St where it is, further adding to the cluster of mid-rise in this area – creeping along the quay to O’ Cll Bridge.

The worst by a long shot is the Ulster Bank, 5 storeys is bad enough – 30 is just scary! And as for Aviation House!
It’s funny to see the almost reticent bow facade of AIB/IFSC suddenly morph into the intimidating headquarters of a faceless multinational 😀

Sorry Diaspora – I was referring to the Tara St Station development rather than the street earlier – I don’t think such a height should be permitted in what essentially is the city centre, especially in this already congested area in height terms.
The idea of a main street though cutting through a bend in the river is indeed an attractive one though – as are embankment promenades, river boats and snow-capped mountains as a backdrop :p

Dublin a Metroplis, who the hell came up with that?. A Metroplis?. I can’t get my head around that one, DUBLIN IS A SMALL CITY, understand. Tokyo, Paris, London, Cairo, Sao Paulo, Mexico Ciy, Beijing, Shangai, Manilla, Jakarta, New York etc etc are metropolises not Dublin, ah ah what a joke, the people who say this have never been outside of Dublin or they are just plain ignorant or stupid, or got delusions of grandure.
Ive heard O,Connell street is the widest street in the world, give me a break, far from it.
What next, the only city with trams, the only city with an airport, the only city with a tunnell, I could go on but I won’t.
Wake up and educate yourself about the world and broaden them narrow little minds of yours.
Thank You.

If anything, the Metropolis – meaning mother city – title of this thread was meant to be ironic. Oh and here you go by the way smart boy, the actual dictionary definition:-
me·trop·o·lis ( P ) Pronunciation Key (m-trp-ls) n.
A major city, especially the chief city of a country or region: Chicago, the metropolis of the Midwest.
A city or an urban area regarded as the center of a specific activity: a great cultural metropolis.
Ecclesiastical. The chief see of a metropolitan bishop.
The mother city or country of an overseas colony, especially in ancient Greece.
So aside from being a would-be smart-ass, you’re wrong as well.

One of the forums better threads,

I found the extra images of the Central Bank very interesting, I know people knock pastiche but 23 storeys of the Central Bank close to the Point Depot would do it for me!!!!!!