O’ Connell Street, Dublin
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The EBS was once an Art Deco building?
GregF, you make it sound like the rest of the site containing building of equal interest to the central piece. AFAIK that wasn’t the case.
I’ve always wondered what the building looked like with its original wings – any pictures around?
Yikes that EBS is woeful, image that next to the straight-laced brickwork of ajoining buildings.
What a nasty, tacky distraction.Give me the black glass anyday, it is starkly modern but discreet in its simplicity.
The RDH is um, interesting – the devil’s in the detail so we’ll have to wait.
I really hope that extra floor that’s set back is invisible from down the street.
The Gresham terrace opposite have mansard roofs, the RDH terrace doesn’t.And the outdoor cafe terrace will be a major bonus to this area of the street, really major.
Thanks Peter for scanning.
Its either a joke at this stage or has long since passed that but are they ever going to pave O’Connell St?!
Progress is slow to say the least – it certainly comes in peaks and troughs and although the peaks provide for identifiable progress, the troughs are too frequent and too long.
I cant understand why they haven’t copncentrated their efforts firstly on the Henry St. junction. I’ve spent months in crowds funnelled into a narrow pedestrial crossing by large concrete barriers. Surely the contractors know that this is by far the busiest stretch of the street and would make an effort to finish it first and with the greatest of haste?
Am I being too logical?
A lot of the paving has been put down very quicky, esp outside Clerys, Easons and the GPO, but certainly the Henry St juntion is taking an eternity, coupled with the farce that was the completion of that street’s paving in the middle of the Christmas rush, after lying idle for two years.
But from a contractors, or indeed the CCs point of view, why bother going to the extra effort to finish here first (not sure if I’m being critical here or not) No one’s going to complain,people just put up with being diverted and funneled. To awkwardly plan the laying of services, paving and other works, just to accomodate pedestrians may seem pointless to them.
But the central median is definitely taking way too long to open.
Oh and the work on the RDH is due to start at the end of the month, probably says it in that Indo article.
And ok, I didn’t quite tell the RDH to ‘shove it’, indeed the e-mail I sent was the very picture of politeness (and pedantry).
Alas – no reply.I think to correct the problems with Dublin’s city centre, the cc need to take one project at a time and complete them first before subjecting the city to twenty at once and not completeing any on time or to a majorities opinions it would appear effectively. May be Im niave in my opinion
Originally posted by Graham Hickey
But the central median is definitely taking way too long to open.The question is will DCC O’connell St committee member Royston be old enough to run for president by the time its finished? It is scheduled for completion prior to the Euro elections in June, will this muppet be able to point to a job done on time as promised?
I’m hating him more by the day, I’ve gone through 3 television sets already from putting my foot through him. He’ll be expecting a bronze statue of his smug self on the median next.
So to the street of which he speaks – it’s loads of pics time.
They were taken last Friday, so if you were wondering about that weirdo walking around O’ Cll St with a camera padlocked, chained and bolted to their arm, taking pictures of the ground, you know who it was.Firstly the major roadworks outside Princes Street.
Followed by the new paving outside the GPO.
One of the new pedestrian crossings, with steel grip studs – proof that those crude red tiles at crossings all over the city are and never were required in that colour.
Also some detail at the GPO
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