Dublin: What wrongs would you love to right?

One of my pet hates is the destruction of High Street and Clanbrassil Street during the ill-fated attempt to build the now abandoned ‘inner tangent’. The failure to rebuild both sides of these streets with suitably scaled developments (higher than the prevalant 3-4 stories) means that the sense of enclosre that used to mark the character of the area is totally lost.

One of the most depressing streets in Dublin has to be Mount Street from Merrion Square to the canal (can’t remember if this is upper or lower) – some of the worst examples of speculative office buildings all collected together in one place.

@DGF wrote:

One of my pet hates is the destruction of High Street and Clanbrassil Street during the ill-fated attempt to build the now abandoned ‘inner tangent’. The failure to rebuild both sides of these streets with suitably scaled developments (higher than the prevalant 3-4 stories) means that the sense of enclosre that used to mark the character of the area is totally lost.

One of the most depressing streets in Dublin has to be Mount Street from Merrion Square to the canal (can’t remember if this is upper or lower) – some of the worst examples of speculative office buildings all collected together in one place.

Spot on DGF – two of my pet hates also. (It’s Mount Street Lower) and I frequently attend meetings in one of the office blocks – dreadful, cheerless, lifeless and sad buildings.

I cannot remember the original Clanbrassil Street but the current Street is as you describe it, with very little definition and lifeless frontage. It’s an astonishing let down after passing St Patrick’s Cathedral and the Ivy Buildings.:(