hickeys and parkgate street

This looks interesting I’m sure if the protected parts of the site are retained that a good development should result. 9 storeys here sounds reasonable to me once they are slender and exibit a flair for contemporary design.

It will be interesting to see a site plan and some elevations

terribly disapointed. i all wanted to see the politicians put something of cultural benifit here. An opera house could have been majestic

The STW sketch of the proposal that appeared in the I.T. Prop. Supp. last Thu looked pretty grim I have to say.

@Devin wrote:

The STW sketch of the proposal that appeared in the I.T. Prop. Supp. last Thu looked pretty grim I have to say.

A look through a large book of STWs works last week turned out to be a catalogue of all my most unfavourite buildings in Dublin of the last 20 years bar the zoo pavilion!

@Bago wrote:

A look through a large book of STWs works last week turned out to be a catalogue of all my most unfavourite buildings in Dublin of the last 20 years bar the zoo pavilion!

That’s what happens when you pinch your designs from Richard Meier’s Shreddit bins.

Well, well. I see An Bord Pleanala did’nt mince words about STWs proposal. “Bland abd repetitive”. Pity they did’nt think the same way about their last half-dozen projects.

Amusing to see the Board resort to name-calling – that’s usually left to objectors!

The unfortunate scheme:

@Devin wrote:

Amusing to see the Board resort to name-calling – that’s usually left to objectors!

The unfortunate scheme:

Looks like nearly every other scheme built in Ireland in the past few years :-). Spencer dock’s new apartments spring to mind.

Great to see the board using design as a reason to refuse planning, hopefully they are determined to set some new precedents.

Developers will learn pretty quickly that they need to produce high quality schemes, because it will cost them big in terms of redesigns and lost time if they are turned down for bland schemes.

Absolutely true! Not to mention the cost to the city of this strategic site lying idle. Dublin City Council need a few shockers from An Bord P, like Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown got last year, because they are practically rubber-stamping all the big stuff of late.

@JoePublic wrote:

Looks like nearly every other scheme built in Ireland in the past few years :-). Spencer dock’s new apartments spring to mind.

In fact, it could have been a proposal from any country and anytime between 1955 and yesterday. I wouldn’t be surprised to see men in pork-pie hats and women in narrow skirts on the sketch.:p

Journalist Alert! Appeal against 8-storey redevelopment of the Ashling Hotel mysteriously withdrawn!! 😮

DCC granted permission for it. Kingsbridge B&B (that’s the tiny building beside the hotel in the picture on the left, below) appealed on the basis that it would dwarf them ……. some weeks later the appeal is mysteriously (€) withdrawn …………

More images here – <a href="http://www.dublincity.ie/swiftlg/apas/run/WPHAPPDETAIL.DisplayUrl?theApnID=5772/06&backURL=Search%20Criteria%20>%20Ref 5772/06 (click ‘View Documents’, then ‘Additional Information: Views & Images’).
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god hickeys gets rejected and this gets through…

Mind you it’s not as if the ole Aisling wasn’t crying out for redevelopment.

I don’t mind it much too much. It’s in a much less prominent position than the Hickey’s scheme. It’s set well back from the Liffey.

An accidental plus is that it will help hide the phenomenally ugly rear of a 1990s Zoe scheme on Montpelier Hill.

If only there were more schemes to hide the many Zoe additions in this area 😉

It just looks like an airport hotel from the 70’s – calling the bar “the zebra lounge” would complete the picture! I suppose the choice of materials will greatly influence final outcome – the renders don’t give much away.

It shows how bad the modern developments are in Dublin that this one is getting a sort of thumbs-up. As ye said, it isn’t too bad … compared to the Jury’s on Parnell Street or the Comfort Inn on Dorset Street.

On first glance I thought that was a picture of a failed scheme from the 70s. It’s shocking.

@AndrewP wrote:

On first glance I thought that was a picture of a failed scheme from the 70s.

Ha! Yes. I was waiting for Devin to post the ‘After’ pictures…

@AndrewP wrote:

On first glance I thought that was a picture of a failed scheme from the 70s. It’s shocking.

Exactly what I thought, except I was thinking more of the 1950’s !!