New building on Amien St.

http://www.pleanala.ie/REP/204/R204647.DOC

Development will make a positive contribution to the decaying and rundown area of the city. The height/bulk and plot ratio of the development is appropriate in the context of the surrounding buildings and area. The building is 5 storey with part set back at third and fourth floor;

About time something half decent is being built in sight of Connolly, blocking the view of the rundown buildings.

@The Denouncer wrote:

Does anyone know what that building is going up beside Connolly Station? See it every day in progress and thought “The archiseek dudes will know, as they know all”.

My mistake, the ABP ref above refers to the new development under construction at the Five Lamps. I would guess the address of the dev you are talking about is around 120 Amiens St. Go google it…

Location: 110-115 Amiens St and 1, 2 and 3 Halpins Row, D1. Proposed development: Demolish buildings and construct office/retail development on six floors over basement car-park with access. Applicant: Merchant Properties.

Hmm…. strange. Can only find a ABP refusal from Apr. 04 on the ABP website. Whatever they’re building now must have gotten through more recently with no appeal of the corpo decision.

Planning Application Reference: 5236/04
Registration Date: 02-Nov-2004
Decision Date: 22-Dec-2004
Permission granted : 08-Feb-2005
110-115 Amiens Street &, 1,2 & 3, Halpins Row
new office/retail development on 5 floors over basement car park
conditions here:

You are correct that there was no appeal of the city council decision.

aparently Gay Byrne was talking on radio about a ‘lovely, lovely’ new triangular building on amiens street, the nicest modern building he has seen in years … does anyone have any pics, graham ! ?, i haven’t been down there in ages.

There’s some sort of style of architecture emerging, seemingly unique to the Five Lamps Quarter (to pip the council to the post with that up-and-coming name..)

Small black bricks over a concrete building with that now ubiquitous double height glassy penthous bit atop. These buildings are everywhere from Amiens St towards the Royal Canal. Have architects just given up having ideas of their own? It began with the AIB building on Talbot St and is spreading northeast like some sort of crappy rash.

@fergalr wrote:

….some sort of crappy rash.

i’ll have to quote you on this, it could apply to all sorts of developments in ireland

When I first saw the building going up on Amiens Street I thought finally someone had seen the folly of the ridiculously long walk to and from the suburban platforms in Connolly and re-instated the old entrance – but no…that would have required a bit of cop on.

I bet we get a new ‘convenience’ store – oh goody.

When I first saw the building going up on Amiens Street I thought finally someone had seen the folly of the ridiculously long walk to and from the suburban platforms in Connolly and re-instated the old entrance – but no…that would have required a bit of cop on

You’re talking about another new addition to the street beside the old DART entrance. Thats not completed yet but it looks okay although it jars with the terrace of Georgian buildings next door. Since these house an innercity drugs clinic its probably too much to suggest that they should look any better than they do. However they are protected structures and its clear to see that that still means very little. All the wooden sashed are gone replaced with a variety of different window types…all uPVC. The building needs cleaning and upgrading. The new addition looks okay so far though. Its quite a narrow building in relation to its height if you look at it coming from Connolly.

The building Gay is refering to is on the corner of Amiens Street and Killarney Street at the Five Lamps – Five Lamps Place this one is called Its certainly a vast improvement on the incoherent mess that was contructed about 2 years ago opposite. The glazed barrel in the centre looks quite good as you approach from North Strand and the overall finish is very good. Its unremarkable otherwise but a good addition to the changing streetscape down here.

Also along Amiens Street the observant of you may have noticed that Connolly Station recieved a bit of a spruce up ovwer Christmas including some new lighting. Its nice bright white fllodlighting but unfortunately its a bit invasive and they could have learned alot from the floodlighting used on the GPO. Unlike the GPO there are plenty of nooks and crannys and stringcoursing on this building to hide flooflights and it would have given a much better effect.

Amiens Street has a long way to go however particularly in the public domain. A smart new paving and tree planting scheme for here would be great…perhaps along the lines of Dorset Street’s new scheme. Some order and structure to the street would really give the positive impression one should get that you are entering the city centre. The area in front of Connolly Station in particular is awful and you really feel that you need to cross a river of traffic before you can get onto Talbot Street and into the city centre. It doenst help for connecting to Busaras either. CIE recently announce they would be building a new Bus Station to compliment Busaras at the rear of Connolly, I presume off Sherrif Street.

Kinda had a look at it this afternoon as i was going past. It looks ok but the “incoherent mess” you refer to opposite is brutal. Two of the balconies have filthy satellite dishes pointing out into the street. AFAIK this requires Planning Permission as they’re to the front of the house. The area has had an awful lot of bigger problems than public domain and architecture over the past 20 years, and I guess until they’re addressed, investment and renewal have to take a back seat

I see the strand cinema/bowling allwey is finally gettting redeveloped, a huge site, its gettting a medical centre shops and apartments,

developer link and renderings anyone?

Wow, it’s definitely about time. Not the nicest location..the height and width of teh road really seperate the two pavements completely.
I hope the front of the building will be kept, as it’s one of the better ones in a fairly crap lot.

The flats on the far side of the road and across the far side of the canal are quite nice, as Dublin’s flats go. And given some of the stuff nearby in Summerhill too.

@fergalr wrote:

Wow, it’s definitely about time. Not the nicest location..the height and width of teh road really seperate the two pavements completely.
I hope the front of the building will be kept, as it’s one of the better ones in a fairly crap lot.

My brother is a friend of the architect and tells me he chose to keep the 30s facade. It’s a huge site – the only possible blip I can see is if the car park empties via the North Strand Road rather than out the back of the site – all those cars forcing their way onto an already congested road would be fun.