High Rise Building

One thing I certainly will say for Dublin is that at least we did not go for such Brutalist structure which inflict all UK cities…..Ballymun was kind of that direction but at least they are going!

@johnny21 wrote:

The buildings looks great!!!

It not only looks horrendous but it makes everythinng around it look horrendous aswell!

@Bago wrote:

It not only looks horrendous but it makes everythinng around it look horrendous aswell!

The reason why its shape is as it is because of the church, they wouldnt get planning permission if they just built a square shape building,literally blocking most sunlight and overshadowing the church. There will be new developments in this area in the coming years, ddda has plans to designate this area high density.

Maybe a sign of more plans to come!!!

That proposed building beside the Ulster Bank looks ok, but I bet it won’t be built.

@hutton wrote:

Over-scaled greedy and insensitive. Ah well, at least Sean Dunne isn’t just keeping his crap only in Ballsbridge and Charlesland.

Is there any truth to the rumour that older residents of Greystones refer to Charlesland as ‘Charliefermot’?

@hutton wrote:

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Over-scaled greedy and insensitive.

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@hutton wrote:

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Eh, no it doesn’t – it’s far too close to the historic core of the city centre, and is an over-scaled greedy arm-chancers scheme. It would also incentise dereliction in the adjacent area by making site values more valuable than existing building values. Thumbs down from me.

As for Johnny21’s “great” mountbrook scheme, again, no. Over-scaled greedy and insensitive. Ah well, at least Sean Dunne isn’t just keeping his crap only in Ballsbridge and Charlesland.

Johnny21 your argument re density is seriously flawed; increased height does not automatically result in higher density – how many more times will that have to be repeated before people wake up and realise that vertical rezonings may be good for developers, yet destroy a city for reasons set out in point no. 1. Finally if you do want to see higher density, why not start with Shrewsbury Road where that hypocrite Sean Dunne has been holding up perfectly fine plans for a modest scheme at the rear of his house… Density indeed, dense in the head.

i walked down around that area yesterday and was amazed by how completely grotty and revolting the whole place is. in my opinion, knock every one of those old building in that area down. realistically, there’s nothing worth conserving there. efforts should be made to reconstitute georgian dublin (by rebuildling if necessary) and this area should be wholly given over to redevelopment. and i mean redevelopment without conditions. everybody who wants to build 30 storeys or 50 storeys or 100 should be allowed to go ahead and to add a bit of excitement to an ugly and boring part of the city. you should go to frankfurt if you want an example of how the excessively controlled distribution of high rise buildings results in complete sterility.

@ihateawake wrote:

maybe 100 is a bit much 😛

… but now that you mention rebuilding, can anyone tell me why there are no new stone buildings like gpo, boi, etc built in recent times? or more georgian buildings for that matter? Is it just that its not cool copying an original or what? crap is routinely inserted here and there around the city, why cant you restore something from scratch if you get what I mean? Would be nice if we could have something of grand civil scale, or even something with a tradtional air about it in new developments… Why not? (genuine question, not rant)

i totally agree. people go out of their way to conserve some totally ugly warehouse built in 1915 down by the docks, but then they support building glass or modern buildings in the middle of a georgian terrace. i agree that they should totally rebuild georgians in georgian areas (including fitzwilliam street), take all that ugly painted plaster off half the georgian buildings in the city, restore old lampposts, ensure all sash windows are restored with the correct number of panels, put cobblestones back on the roads around them, and clean them up and apply for UNESCO world heritage status which the unique elegance of georgian dublin would merit if it were properly cared for. and furthermore, i think this treatment should be given to buildings not just in the georgian southside, but in areas like dame street, the quays and the northside too.

on the matter of building neoclassical buildings nowadays, i wouldn’t be in favour of it simply because modern architecture is so much more capable of being great than that sort of architecture.

Cross gun bridge development approved. planning ref no. 6818/07. 13 storey building along with other blocks.

Only pic i could get:eek:

Has anyone seen the draft LAP for Phibsboro / Mountjoy, there’s some brilliant photos from other cities in it.