Dun Laoghaire Baths
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I’m with the locals on this. Neither should be built, the pool should be restored as a public amenity
Tonight’s vote goes ahead against the backdrop of strong opposition from many locals who believe the site should be restored to its former glory and opened as a public amenity accessible to all.
The baths complex dates back to 1843 when it was developed as the Royal Victorian Baths. It was later redeveloped as Kingstown Baths between 1905 and 1911. It closed in the 1980s when it became too expensive to maintain. Its condition has steadily deteriorated since then.
I would agree with MG – there are few enough publically owned amenities in the country without them being sold off for property developers to make a mint on because they’re a nice site.
The baths at Blackrock and Dun Laoghaire should be restored and re-opened to the public.
Yeah, I kind of lean that way too. There used to be so many amenities like these in the last century. It never seems to be a problem to fund them or for people to use them for a reasonable charge. It would be a shame if out new modern society sold them all off for thalasso spas. I say restore!
i too would love to see the baths restored but some how i don’t think this will happen now. it would have been a great idea to reopen them to the public and i must say that i would have been one of the first to use them. outdoor pools are great on a nice day. however i just think that if they must develop the site, i would prefer the tower block option myself. i am not saying this as a high rise fan. i just think it does look the better of the two proposals. anyway it doesn’t look too tall.
i hear rumours that another landmark building might be going up near the port! it is planned for dun laoghaire yes but is this info right though? it looks like this is another planned building for the area which will be separate to the ones mentioned above. apparently there will be a competition for it just like the u2 tower but i’m not 100% sure. comments?
i just got an email today from dun laoghaire/rathdown co co and was told that info regarding this project should be in todays irish times, page 7. no decision has been made yet i was told. surprise surprise.
I like the tower. It looks like a proper maritime building. Are we a maritime city or not?!
I am all on for stacking up the horizon slightly in the right places.
The Dublin horizon is as flat and featureless as a 15 mile long, sixty foot high pancake.
i just heard on news 2 that both proposals have been thrown out. surprise surprise! i wonder what they will do with the site now?
I heard that the lower one (Bennett Constructions) wasn’t considered at all as to include on the short list would leave the council open to legal action from all the plans they had previously rejected. This was due to the proposed development exceeding the footprint of the site. If this is true (and it was reported on News Talk) it’s a very basic error I would think! Who was the architect on that one?
Did you read the way that the Pierse proposal was ruled out so the competition could be relaunched?
Councillors were reluctant to vote on either accepting or rejecting the Pierce Group plan.
Instead, a motion was passed that Pierce Group be excluded from further consideration in the competition based on height, use, scale and provision of parking, thus effectively ending the competition.
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2003/0715/3985647500HM6CITYCOUNCIL.html
The use of a building’s height to rule against it, without even mentioning its architectural quality, is so deeply ingrained in this city’s psyche it’s maddening.
“New competition to be held for Dun Laoghaire baths site”
http://home.eircom.net/content/irelandcom/topstories/1025283?view=Eircomnet
in my opinion they will end up building something flat and boring. everytime something tall is proposed for the city/county/country… it gets knocked on the head, most of the time. ruiling out a building due to height alone is ridiculous. it keeps on happening though. time after time tall buildings are knocked on the head or else they call for a reduction in height. why? in this day and age you would think that people would be more open to these issues. we can’t keep having this attitude. it just gets to me the way this happens all the time. things are never going to change here in ireland. i would have loved them to build the tower option. the hotel option did look a bit ugly and strange. it looked like a skyscraper on it’s side. as for the roof, it looked in some way like the top of liberty hall. wavey
Ughhhh !!!! Just back from holidays and heard about the Dun Laoghaire baths site. Knew it would be too good to be true that the tower would be built. It would have looked fantastic. Too ambitious and too modern for Ireland though. Lets leave everything old, derelict, monontonous, boring or ugly so that conservative f*****g twats don’t get upset from evil modern tall buildings. Wish that generation, who always seem to get their way would all go into retirement and emigrate.
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