Nuzum Bros and the bike factory
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the student union newpaper _the university record_, and confirmed here
http://www.tcd.ie/Buildings/Presentation/SFC041203/index.html
Yes I heard about that plan too. It is disgraceful that, after neglecting the fine urban vernacular architecture of Pearse Street (in its possession) for so long, TCD should come along and seek to demolish it. As well as the lovely teracotta Nuzum shopfront, I believe those unusual faience columned shofronts (the bricked-up ones) at nos. 183-187 will be up for the chop as well.
so 200 (N&B) and 201 (the bike factory) demolished, 206 demolished, 184-187 (edwarding shopfronts) demolished, 188-193 refurbished, the two white student accomadation blocks by the rugby pitched demolished, the civil engineering building including the nice low victorian building and the awful simon perry building, demolished.
i understand only too well the need to provide modern lab space etc and the desire on the part of the dcc to rejunvinate pearse street, but this is crazy, surely a good architect could find a way to reconcil these needs with retention of these unusual and well loved buildings.
THis is strange considering that DCC are in a process of consultation on proposed environmental changes to Pearse St as part of a QBC development. It would be unthinkable to demolish these buildings (or at least destroy the facades and building line) to create open space! It smacks of the worst excessess of the 1960s
THe DCC plans are available to view in Pearse Library if interested.
This cannot be allowed happen. What a disaster it would be. God knows TCD have done nothing to accentuate these clever and attractive old shop fronts but now to want to destroy them is obscene.
The worst thing is the idea of replacing it with public space – as if public space is this great thing that can never be criticised. Well, I’d opt for clever architecture over a ‘clean, chrome lined white limestone’ public space (or whatever else it will be) any day.
Are these buildings listed? Is there anywhere were I can complain to TCD? I’m a graduate and recently received a letter asking for donations – well, I wouldn’t want to donate to an organisation which shows such callous disregard for those few remaining gems of Dublin City.
I echo everything said; to lose the shopfronts would be awful. To lose the character of this part of the street – essentially buildings that make it a street – would be even worse.
Surely the demolition of structures such as these that shape and define an area into a street, in favour of an open space, would not be permitted under the City Development Plan and hence would not be upheld on appeal by An Bord Pleanala?There’ll be a hell of a lot of objections if this goes ahead.
I cannot believe Trinity have the cheek to do this esp as they’re listed; after years of bashing from everyone they’re still as blind as ever – they just tart up the theatrics to the front and leave the rest to rot.There is something about the design on the odonnell+toumey website, hard to see from this
the scale of demolishion on pease street, the
side facing the rugby pitch is very nice, again, i am sure the positive aspects of this plan could be reconcilled with retention of 200/201 and 184-188.
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