Dublin’s Ugliest Building
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As a beer fan, I can honestly say that the Porterhouses are among the best pubs in Dublin, so lets not have any more Porterhouse Bashing. This is an architecture forum.
I think the ugliest building in Dublin is probably Oisin House on Pearse St.
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/pearse_street/oisin.html
And I know a lot of people here hate it, but I personally really like O Connell Bridge house.hawkins house – enough of the abuse – it’s a testament to the era lets keep it forever! i call for a preservation order on it!
ugliest building(s) – what about just of all of suburbia – practical but creating generations of kids with no knowledge of design?
I think it is time to update this thread with a new entry for the title of Dublin Ugliest Building.
And my nomination is the new Palace Street ‘HQ Office Building’, beside city hall.
The reason why I’m nominating this building, apart from it being very ugly, is the fact that it is brand new. Now Hawkins House is really ugly, but it’s been around a few years now. How is this build going to look in 20 to 30 years time? :rolleyes:
Due to the thread ‘New building beside City Hall’ which has now turned into the discussion how ugly it is, I feel its more fitting to move the subject here.
Let’s face it – aren’t there a lot of crap Georgian and neo Georgian buildings in Dublin – are they ugly? What is an ugly building? Shouldn’t Dublin grow up and up and up, get more glass and class!
😮 That building would be better suited along side the VLT telescopes on the mountains of Chile or with the giant Keck telescope in Hawai!@weehamster wrote:
I think it is time to update this thread with a new entry for the title of Dublin Ugliest Building.
And my nomination is the new Palace Street ‘HQ Office Building’, beside city hall.
The reason why I’m nominating this building, apart from it being very ugly, is the fact that it is brand new. Now Hawkins House is really ugly, but it’s been around a few years now. How is this build going to look in 20 to 30 years time? :rolleyes:
Due to the thread ‘New building beside City Hall’ which has now turned into the discussion how ugly it is, I feel its more fitting to move the subject here.
Jurys to sell off Burlington hotel
January 24, 2007 14:41
Announcing strong annual results today, Jurys Hotel Group said it was selling the Burlington Hotel in Dublin and planned to invest €200m in its hotels and on acquisitions.Jurys said it has appointed commercial agents CBRE to sell its Burlington Hotel site in Dublin, in order to release funds so the group can re-invest in premium hotels and expand internationally.
The group said the sale is expected to take a number of months and the hotel will remain open throughout 2007.
‘The value of the property has appreciated significantly in the past twelve months, particularly in the light of a recent transaction in the area,’ it said. A neighbouring site owned by insurer Allianz was sold for €100m.
Jurys also said it plans to invest over €200m in its existing assets including the Westbury, Jurys Kensington, Jurys Clifton Ford, Jurys Great Russell Street and Jurys Bristol, as well as on new purchases in key international cities.
Following the acquisition of the Group in late 2005, Jurys was re-structured into two divisions- a premium hotels business and an Inns business.
The group said thatthe Inns business, which is now in 20 city centre locations in Ireland and the UK, continues to trade strongly, with a significant pipeline of additional Inns planned in the UK and Europe.
Ms Bernie Gallagher, Chairman of JDHA, said the decision to sell the Burlington site was a difficult one but the significant investment the hotel would need, and the current value of the site, ultimately influenced the decision.
She added that the proceeds of the Burlington will enable the Group to achieve its objectives and expand internationally.
‘Our strategy is to firmly position the hotels in the Group at the premium end of the markets in which they operate and we are committed to invest accordingly. We also plan to accelerate the roll-out of the Inns’, she said.
Of that period of development the Burlington was certainly a canidate
Good to see it is going
It looks like another canidate is about to go
Superquinn owners buy Montrose Hotel
Monday, 19 February 2007 08:07
The number of large hotels on the south side of Dublin city continues to decline with news that the owners of Superquinn have bought the Montrose Hotel.According to press reports over the weekend, the owners of the supermarket chain have agreed to buy the Montrose Hotel in Stillorgan, Dublin, from Jurys Doyle for more than €40m.
The Montrose hotel had been underperforming and was put up for sale by the Jurys Doyle group. The company recently decided to put the Burlington Hotel on the market. It has already sold Jurys in Ballsbridge and the Berkley Court to property developer Sean Dunne.
AdvertisementSelect Retail Holdings, which purchased Superquinn in August 2005, plans to build a new supermarket and apartments on the site of the hotel, according to weekend newspaper reports.
Heheh – a double spread of pictures of Dublin’s ‘ugliest’ buildings. It’s quite witty, and oddly well informed…
Ironically O’Connell Bridge House has a decidely flattering photograph, while Robocop or Hawkins don’t feature at all. Some astute observations include the Recency Airport Hotel (now pasted in salmon purwhat buildings are on their list?
I’m expected to talk knowledgably about it on da wireless tomorrowAhhh :). Where and when?
It’s a big centre spread just with pictures and captions, claimed to be part of an online poll :confused:
I only saw it cause someone’s collecting coupons. Honest!
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Buildings featured (in no particular order) are:O’Connell Bridge House
One George’s Quay Plaza
Ilac Centre
Dunlin Airport 1960s Terminal
Trinity Arts Block
Regency Airport Hotel
American Embassy
Central Bank
Phibsboro Centre
Civic Offices
Oisin House
Irish Life Centre
Stephen’s Green Centre
Bord FGraham, most hotels worth their salt have CHP’s. They’re quite common, you could even replace your gas boiler at home with one if so desired.
So looking at the list above I take it anything built of conrcete is fair game…?
Pure concrete fantasy
Makes you wonder what they would think of the above@PVC King wrote:
Pure concrete fantasy
Makes you wonder what they would think of the aboveI believe that’s a listed building now… a classic
@alonso wrote:
I believe that’s a listed building now… a classic
List 2 I believe;
What the image fails to display is its slender nature which really makes along with the lived in quality added by the external washing lines.
And like Busaras it always seems to feature at about no. 10 in both the best and worst buildings polls.
I’m sure it has already been nominated (such a long thread and soo little time..) but all my money is on River House beside the Four Courts. For its intrinsic awfulness and for its contextual awfulness. It’s awful.
@PVC King wrote:
Pure concrete fantasy
Makes you wonder what they would think of the abovePVC King: I hope you are not against Goldinger’s Trellick Tower somehow, it is a fantastic building; also, an interesting lesson since people have learned to love it since they introduced decent caretaking and surveillance.
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