High Rise Building
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Waterford quays developments. :DCity quay 17+14 storey buildings and high density mixed use. http://www.cityquay.ie. Water haven development 32+16 storey buildings and medium density mixed use. http://www.bolstergroup.com http://www.cjfa.ie. Both developments awaiting planning permission. Heres a few pics of the developments:cool:
Very impressive for such a small city:)
Is the red cow hotel still going ahead. It did get planning permission didnt it?:confused:
Few better pics of the sentinel sandyford
Check this out!! Murray o’loaires plans for royal canal park. Render looks brilliant!!:D:D:D. 16 stories(50m)
http://www.skyscrapernews.com/imagesall.php?ref=1672&idi=Royal+Park+Life&self=nse&no=1&selfidi=1672RoyalParkLife_pic1.jpgi think the docklands is a perfect example of dublins fear of heights when it comes to creating fantastic high rise/high density buildings.
while we were sitting there, wetting ourselves in fear that we would mess it up and create horrible buildings that were too tall, that would mess with “dublins perfect skyline” and end up creating a substandard high rise ‘manhattan’ type city district. at the end of all this we ended up creating a sunstandard low rise city distrcit that is the nothing but a wasted oportunity for greatness. yes there are one or two exceptions but on the whole if we are being realistic, it could of been a lot better
we are really going to have to take the thumb out and start looking at which aspects of dublins development is more important: pushing people as far out as kildare and meath in search of homes or the fact that builing high rise and high density developments in central locations is the answer
SteDub: You’re so yesterday – we’ve had this debate about high-rise not equalling high-density ad nauseam. To achieve your objectives, you’d have to knock down most of the city between the canals, and be left with … what? An improvement? Everybody thinks Docklands is bland, but that’s nothing to do with the lack of high-rise.
The ddda has eventually got the finger out!!!! With plans for eight 20 storey high rises,the point,and the u2. But is it too little too late???? Honestly i think that its possible to have a trendy high rise, medium density quarter of the city that would compete with skylines in prime european cities. If the plan is completed, dublin would have a skyline to be proud about.:)
Planning application lodged with dcc for mixed use development, 4-15(60m+) storeys on east road beside spencer docks lands to east.Planning ref;4088/08. Any1 have any images????
What is this obsession with high-rise? What is the average age of you people?
Johnglas, you should organize archiseek outings to Glasgow (somebody must have a dirty van we could use) and we could get a look at some of your high rise horrors, that might cool the ardour.
I remember the first time I saw Glasgow, I was trying to get to Stirling and on my tiny map the road seemed to go straight through Glasgow. That could be interesting, I thought, and sure enough, in (full 1960s) reality, the motorway went straight through Glasgow, whizzing past council tower blocks, gasometers and the spire of the cathedral, if I recall, on it’s way. You can actually do Glasgow at 80mph!
No look with finding any pictures of that Russian Constructivist tower that I was told Glasgow once had?
So annoying; I was doing you a reply when I lost the lot – never mind. The light has just come on! The Russian Constructivist tower you’re talking about was almost certainly Tate(‘s) Tower, built as part of the Empire (sic) Exhibition of 1938 and tragically demolished in the 1940s since it was thought it would act as a marker for the Luftwaffe (I kid you not). Anyway, the City Council pluckily stepped in where Goering’s boys failed and blitzed most of the inner city in the 1960s.
If this is what you were looking for, let me know and I’ll get some more images/info.
(PS I have done a ‘the good, the bad and the ugly’ tour of the city with some Dutch geography students – I don’t think they knew places like the East End existed.)That is the business johnglas.
For a while there I though I’d been given bad information.
I wouldn’t mind seeing more of that. It might have been just an exhibition piece, but the slab merchants could learn a thing or two from it.
Wow, that building is amazing. It just show you how far we have come in building design.
😉ah yeh some classic High Rise – the Red Road flats in Glasgow. I was told once by a lecturer that the top floors sway by a metre in the high winds. Wonderful
Great, alonso, Uncle Joe couldn’t have done any better; but they were ‘the tallest flats in Europe’ (30 storeys)!
Was looking at Ballymore’s Pan Peninsula in E14 today which are very close to completion 53 stories high; very much the other end of the market!!
@PVC King wrote:
Was looking at Ballymore’s Pan Peninsula in E14 today which are very close to completion 53 stories high; very much the other end of the market!!
Now that is a giant of a tower! Contrast this with one of headlines on the far right hand side of the page stating that ‘giant city tower would dwarf the fourcourts’ I had to laugh “giant”?? “tower”???!!? Haha. Hardly! To say that it may overshadow the four courts is a fairly acurate opinion; but a tower?! What? all ELEVEN STORIES OF IT!! Wow wee:eek:
@alonso wrote:
ah yeh some classic High Rise – the Red Road flats in Glasgow. I was told once by a lecturer that the top floors sway by a metre in the high winds. Wonderful
Don’t all tall buildings sway in the wind?
I know many, even taller buildings have dampening weights near the roof to minimise the sway in the wind, but it still occurs to some degree.
I wouldnt think concrete structures such as those would sway too much?
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