Farewell the Ormond Hotel?
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@Graham Hickey wrote:
I don’t think anyone here was aware of this project until not just after, but quite a long time after the decision was made
Ahem:
Funny to see a thread where the duffy brothers seem to be getting on; i guess this was before platform11 split the family like the civil war did so many families only three generations ago.
wary smilie 🙂
Got me there Andrew, and would also have to admit to remembering that thread too, only cause of Ewan’s remark though 🙂
Wasn’t aware of the building at the time though, and your definition of it as an ‘ugly’ structure (agreed) probably made most people gloss over it even more as being just another pile of rubbish on the quays.Good prediction re the design quality.
@J. Seerski wrote:
For those not in the know, the Ormond (in Dublin city centre) is due for demolition.
John, just to prove it wasn’t lost without a fight, here was the An Taisce appeal.
Incidentally, I heard that the current owner didn’t intend to go through with the redevelopment himself when he sought planning, and that he may have just wanted to sell it on with approval for a bigger new building…..but don’t count on it…
This finally got permission from ABP (see SBP story). I cant help wondering if I have missed something….”exceptional design”? Are we talking about the same monstrosity above?
@StephenC wrote:
This finally got permission from ABP (see SBP story). I cant help wondering if I have missed something….”exceptional design”? Are we talking about the same monstrosity above?
Nope that’s a different hotel, bit further down the quays.
They could at least retain the facade!i…….(instead of the proposed crappy elevation)
……and after all how is it that the Ormonde gets the go ahead for demolition while across the river there was so much of a furore about the changes made to the Clarence Hotel.
The Sunday Business Post
Developer buys Joycean hotel on Ormond Quay
08 October 2006 By Neil Callanan
Developer Bernard McNamara has bought the Ormond Hotel on Ormond Quay in Dublin 7.The hotel is near the headquarters of his company Michael McNamara & Co and is believed to have been acquired as part of a land banking operation.
McNamara is based at Grattan BridgeHouse,3Upper Ormond Quay, and the hotel is between 4 and 6 Upper Ormond Quay. Planning permission was granted in 2003to demolish the existing four-storey over-basement hotel and increase the size of the hotel to 155 bedrooms.
The redeveloped hotel was also to have a bar, restaurant and conference facilities. The application was made by Haskari Properties and, after planning permission was granted by Dublin City Council, it was appealed unsuccessfully to An Bord Pleanala.
The Ormond Hotel is famous amongst Joyceans as the location of the Sirens episode of Ulysses when Bloom drops in for an afternoon drink and something to eat.
Yep, looks like the new building will never be built although the current one will definitely go. He’s bought a good few buildings around there apparently.
Whatever about the architectural right-to-life of the current building, that illegitimate love-child of polyvinylchloride and moulded concrete that they hope to spring forth from the rubble of the old building is as ugly as it is obscene. Upon seeing the ‘render’ I thought of an idea, if the builders of this execrable edifice get through and they have a respectable Ailesbury Rd house, their house should be demolished and replaced with a concrete Borg Cube.
I love the ormonde Hotel anyway, whenever I’m coming in on the bus from my west Dublin residence its always a landmark for me to get off. To lose that building would be to lose my enjoyable trips via bus into Town.
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