National Wax Monstrosity
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Donnie Cassidy has put in plans to demolish this architectural masterpiece on Granby Row and replace it with a 118 hotel. No idea what the new plans will look like. The story is in todays Times Property supplement. It is being suggested that all those lovely wax works will be relegated to the new hotels basement. That would be a selling point wouldn’t it!
it wouldn’t seem so, there’s no mention in the planning application/ The proposed hotel is 7 storeys over basement carpark.
There already seems to be a big giant ripping the front off it!;)
Joking aside, is the Wax Museum run by separate people or is it run by the property owner?
Senator D Cassidy used to own the National Wax Museum, but I think that he disposed of it a couple of years back, it certainly was advertised for sale.
Would not seem to me to be an ideal hotel location, either site or situation wise, but perhaps there still is a demand for new hotels in Dublin. The first hotel on Dorset Street!
The site is rather reminiscent of the Abbey Theatre site, in that it is very much constrained by the road layout.
{Doubless the Abbey rebuild scheme is once again shelved, as redundancy seems to be the word in the green room there just now.}
The signage in that image is most insensitive, I’d really like to see drawings of the original elevation, it looks a really honest design.
It has to be one of the craziest stories I ever heard when reading that elements of a classical church still remained cloaked under those concrete walls. Even if they’re only fragments – mad! Still don’t believe it!
How anyone, anyone, in any frame of mind could have destroyed that in favour of what went up…
It’d be so funny to be innocently coming along and notice half a church emerging from one of the most reviled piles in the city 🙂
if you go and take a close look its possible to see glimces of mouldings in the places where some of the concrete has been removed
This is a really awful area of the city ….a real hotch potch of architectural disasters of the 20th century, including the rubbishy concrete case that is the wax museum itself. (and not forgetting that awful Garden of Rememberance.) Jesus what were they thinking. Looking at the photo of how this area once looked, it’s very sad to realize that all the buildings has since been demolished or somewhat botched. I think the Black Church nearby must be the only antique building that has survived. The Wax works/Plaza Cinema as it looks in the photo would have been a grand edifice bar the signage to house the waxworks today. Pity it’s all to go now , including the Finn MacCuill giant which has charm.
This area will be a certified non-event with a bland red brick hotel to match the bland appartments across the road. Although it will inject some capital into the area our tourist friends will need to look out for the ”friendly folk” from the nearby flats.
Too much damage has been done to the city fabric here to recreate what was once the charm in the photo. Gone forever and replaced with dross.@GregF wrote:
Although it will inject some capital into the area our tourist friends will need to look out for the ”friendly folk” from the nearby flats.
I really think generalising comments like that are unfair. Tourists are important to a city, but its population is what should be most important.
How do you know it is a reality? What has been your experience?
GregF, that happens everywhere. I am afraid that at present I am concluding that you are actually generalising about everyone who lives in the area.
I agree with GregF. That area is dog rough, to the extent that tourists are warned to be careful with belongings on their way up to the Wax Museum.
And Phil, it’s also important that when people are given state-subsidised accomodation within walking distance of the city centre, they should show some appreciation of that fact and perhaps take some pride in those lodgings – and not allow them fall into chronic disrepair.
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