National Wax Monstrosity
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Reasonably priced too at only €25. It’ll be a huge hit for Christmas.
Have to say the interior of the Savoy looks ever so slightly ridiculous though with that Venetian streetscene – in contrast to the foyer which is magnificent.It is even cheaper in Reads, Nassau St, if you want to shop early for Christmas.
Yes it is very good to have that new book.
The Wax Museum is moving to Smithfield Market according to its manager who was being interviewed last week on City Edition (NewsTalk 106FM). The new museum should be completed by next summer.
From Bethesda to Cinerama
Marc ZimmermannA number of movie theatres have shaped the cinematic landscape of the city over the past ninety-eight years. They include Dublin’s first dedicated cinema (the VOLTA, 1909), the city’s first purpose-built CinemaScope screen (STATE, ’54), the first twinned venue (SAVOY, ’69) and Ireland’s first multiplex (UCI TALLAGHT, ’90). A further number of both well- and lesser-known venues forms a significant part of the capital’s architectural and social history. One of these was the DORSET. The building it occupied for over seven decades had an unusual life, serving three di-verse purposes over two centuries.
@Paul Clerkin wrote:
From Bethesda to Cinerama
Marc ZimmermannA number of movie theatres have shaped the cinematic landscape of the city over the past ninety-eight years. They include Dublin’s first dedicated cinema (the VOLTA, 1909), the city’s first purpose-built CinemaScope screen (STATE, ’54), the first twinned venue (SAVOY, ’69) and Ireland’s first multiplex (UCI TALLAGHT, ’90). A further number of both well- and lesser-known venues forms a significant part of the capital’s architectural and social history. One of these was the DORSET. The building it occupied for over seven decades had an unusual life, serving three di-verse purposes over two centuries.
heart breaking insnt it!
@StephenC wrote:
The Wax Museum is moving to Smithfield Market according to its manager who was being interviewed last week on City Edition (NewsTalk 106FM). The new museum should be completed by next summer.
according to this site the wax museum is now moving to Grafton Street, due to open Summer 2007. (old habitat shop???)
http://www.visitdublin.com/seeanddo/kidsdublin/Detail.aspx?id=288&mid=861I see Fusano have been busy of late in smithfield
Change of use to Cinema at Smithfield lodged by Fusano 28th February 2007……..Is this the re-opened lighthouse? could be goodchange of use to cinema (class 11) / exhibition (class 10) use from the following: (a) Auditorium/exhibition area at ground floor (constructed) and 3 no. basement levels of Block A (partially constructed); (b) cultural/museum area at ground floor (constructed) of Block A; and (c) part of basement car park at 3 no. levels (not constructed). Proposed cinema / exhibition area to comprise c.5265.8sqm gross floor area (GFA)(including all voids) as follows: c.599.93sqm at ground level, c.1490.80sqm at basement level – 1, c. 1573.97sqm at basement level -2 and c.1601.10 sqm at basement level -3 (permitted GFA of auditorium/exhibition area is c3,376sqm). Internal alterations to permitted ground floor and 3 no. basement levels of Block A, and part basement car park area at 3 no levels to include the following: construction of a 4 screen cinema with a total seating capacity of 632 persons, cafe/bar, foyer areas, multi-purpose rooms, management suite, concesion / retail areas and ancillary areas including circulation, wc’s, storage, plant and staff accommodation
not so great
also at Smithfield lodged by Fusano 13th March 2007
“Proposed pin mounted individual lettering non illuminated “Real Gourmet Burger” over entrance doors to retail unit 15, proposed signage will be located on the east and west elevations of block c over entrance doors to unit 15 externally. Proposed pin mounted individual lettering non illuminated “Paddy Power” over entrance doors to retail unit 17 proposed signage will be located on the east and west elevations of block c over entrance doors to unit 17 externally. Proposed pin mounted individual lettering back illuminated (halo effect) “Eves Food to tempt you” over existing fascia/spandrel panel to east elevation and south elevation over main entrance doors to unit 20a of Block C.@GrahamH wrote:
[/IMG]I like the look of the pub on the corner. The buildings that replaced these are of such poor quality – I wonder when this block went………..
What happened to the old Wax museum building reminds me very much of what happened to the old Royal Hippodrome Theatre in Belfast (site now occupied by the Grand Opera House extension). It was perhaps a finer theatre than the Opera House, yet in the 60/70s it was clad in a really nasty steel skin, which made it look perhaps worse than the wax museum did! I’ll try and find a pic…
I hope they update the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. When it closed. they still had a figure of Boy George.
Ah, O Donohoes, I remember having a more than a few pints in there, right after school. A lot of us from Colaiste Mhuire knew that age wasn’t a big factor in that bar, but it was a real kip inside!
Thinking about this quite impressive church I wonder – how could this have been lost in such a relatively recent past. It really does look quite impressive. Would not the Georgian Society have been active in the late 1960s or was that time just a free for all? Could this have happened if the same people got their hands on St George’s Church on Temple St and decided also to encase it?
Did Sam ever talk about this project? Justify it as an improvement? I think its a far worse crime than the Bunkers – at least he didn’t have to deface actual impressive buildings to construct them.
So which is better? 😮
Now, I know ‘budget’ hotel refers to modest accommodation, but this appears to have mixed this up with the standard of the structure itself. For a 3-star hotel, this is simply appalling elevational treatment. I can’t believe this was allowed through in an area of future regeneration.
Given it’s a flagship public building for the area, is this the high water mark of design DCC are setting for the environs of Dorset Street for the next ten years?
It’s Arran Quay 2007.
Given it’s a flagship public building for the area, is this the high water mark of design DCC are setting for the environs of Dorset Street for the next ten years?
Thats truly depressing looking, especially for an ‘up and coming” area.
There seems to be a production-line churning out this garbage.Particularly depressing considering there’s been a lot of effort put in on Dorset St/Drumcondra Road these past five years. How can DCC let this stuff through. It seems like the only way something like this would be blocked is if they had wanted to build it double that height. Like Frank McD says – these are the future slums of Dublin.
kefu wrote:Particularly depressing considering there’s been a lot of effort put in on Dorset St/Drumcondra Road these past five years. How can DCC let this stuff through. It seems like the only way something like this would be blocked is if they had wanted to build it double that height. Like Frank McD says – these are the future slums of Dublin.[/Quote:I would think that the outer suburb type areas will be the future slums……..(oil based global economy)This looks like a detention centre of some sort
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