Dublin vistas
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No, it’s being kept thankfully.
That’s good – I lived on the SCR from 1992-2000 and used to like meeting friends for a few down there
@Devin wrote:
Are you SURE this photograph exists gunter? I have HEARD it exists too but I have never seen it, and it’s not in the place you would most expect to see it: the planning application conservation report on the building by the ‘prestigious’ conservation practice you refer to. I won’t believe it exists til I see it.
Yes. it exists.
I’ve seen it with my own eyes!
however, I don’t actually have it.
I’m 90% certain that it turned up in a Donore Ave. school journal of all places. I don’t have any more infomation on it than that. It was flashed in front of me for about five seconds and taken away again. It was a pretty small photograph, as re-printed in the journal, and not exactly 8 mega-pixels, but the curved gables were distinct and I can confirm that it was the guy with the crayon, not the guy with the drawing pen, that got the profiles right!
Like I said before, Peter Walsh, former curator of the Guinness Museum (before it became the ‘Storehouse’) is the man who should have the goods on this and all matters ‘Dutch Billy’. If he gets hit by a bus, we’re fucked.
I’m pushing it a bit (a lot!), and OK, crappy camera phone pic, and off centre, but if you stand a bit to the right of where I took this, Liberty Hall gets pretty close to the centre of Tara St. Just a traffic light pole in the way! Also helped by the 2 storey eyesore on the corner of Burgh Quay opening up the view.
I’ll miss Liberty Hall if it goes 🙁
The view from Capel Street, along Strand Street. This one is bang on axis.
The view down Chesterfield Ave in the Phoenix Park towards the big Guinness Buildings is a lovely, if unwitting vista. Especially on a summer evening.
I noticed the other day that the new development on Sth. King St. beside The Gaiety, is partially obscuring the view of Mercer’s Hospital clock tower – when viewed from along Stephen’s Green North.
Probably one of the first formal vistas in Dublin is the Royal Hospital Kilmainham (1684) from the formal gardens, which, as re-planted by the OPW, is maturing quite nicely.
I also like the salmon coloured render on the great little double external step link structure, as repaired recently by the OPW. It gives a suitably baroque touch, and was presumably well researched.
These tablets are working out fine.
Yes, but look at that lighting (?) pole: how baroque is that!
@gunter wrote:
These tablets are working out fine.
What are you on, gunter? Spill the beans, or better still share some :p
Agreed re the salmon coloured render – a brave choice that works very well.
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Unidentified church in the liberties. Taken from Meath streetIt’s St Nicolas of Myra church (aka Santa’s grotto)
It’s St Nicholas of Myra (or St Nicholas Without); magnificent interior (if you haven’t seen it, go); dreadful exterior forecourt. The facade could do with a clean-up, coupled with a rethink about the forecourt. tantalising the way the facade is just off-centre to the street.
Designed by a guy called Leeson, I think. Not a lot is known about Leeson. I’ve been trying to connect him with the mortuary chapel in Goldenbridge Cemetry in Inchicore, but only really the style and date to go on.
The Francis Street church has a really creepy crypt, which I was in once and couldn’t wait to get back up out of.
Apologies for the dodgy white balance – can’t find the decent one.
Santy should also be reinstated over the portico – anyone know where he is? (other than the North Pole of course)
The vista down Patrick Street during a rare lull in traffic can be dramatic.
Poolbeg Street looking east. Sunny day syndrome.
Just for mischief, and with the way the circle is turning, if you paid someone to clean the windows, photo-shopped in some coloured panels (in place of the barber shop green) and did a bit of creative photography, you could slip Hawkin’s House into the AAI awards next year and chance your arm at a ‘Special Mention’!
You realize that when Hawkin’s House goes, we will lose the single biggest concentration of galvanized steel windows in Dublin.
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