O’ Connell Street, Dublin
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damnit we need more clouds….
yeah i was impressed with it, its hard to get your head around how you could make an interesting unique design? anyone tried?
lasers shows etc have rarley been that good, beyond a brief novelty but i like this…. lots of ppl stopping to look
i think it be cooler if it was movely all the time. any get some good pictures of it, the one on the front of the times was good get ol jim larken in there, ya know getting the a _good_ picture. i was talking ones of the lights hitting the statues on top of the gpo but i din’t have zoon on me camera…
and yes oconnell streets looks good… whts ya think of the square trees…? the look really nice that they are budding so quickly… still would have prefferred the old ones…
Once they fill out they’ll look really good.
See what you mean about the lights hitting the statues, looks great, as does the way various usually unnoticed chimneys suddenly blaze up with light.
The GPO bollards have yet to be reinstated and the area looks decidedly finished – hmmmmmmmm
28/4/2004
The lamps are being connected now to the aforementioned massive poles. These will be used to blast the plaza with light, as there are no street lamps here for obvious reasons.
There’s similar poles in pics in the IAP I think.It’s a pity they have to stand outside the GPO, but at least they’re centred on it, which unfortunately is not the case for Clerys, where one pokes right up to one side of its facade – there’s little that can be done about it though as it has to be at the corner of the plaza. It’s not going to look any better when all 6 or so lamps are attached.
There is no provision to date for the floodlighting of the GPO either.I’ll try and get pics tomorrow.
What are very impressive, what were pretty much touted from the start, are the French styled lamposts for the carriageways, which have pedestrian lamps at a lower level to the rear to light the pavements. Their glass-domed heads look great, not least because they’re new and shiny, lets hope they stay like that!
Presumably smaller similar heads will be used for the median pedestrian lighting.Passing today, it was interesting to note that the steel grip-studs at all the new pedestrian crossings are laid and drilled by eye, a man was there with a massive drill making the holes, while another guy came along after, squirted cement or similar into the hole and pushed in the studs!
Things are coming on really great overall.
That’s great. Somebody told me that the Burger bars on O’Connell St are to be removed, Burger King, MacDonalds etc. Is this true? And what sort of changes are being made to various shop fronts? I take it that neon lighting is now a no no.
imho there to be bit too much street furniture ie poles, there put a pedestrain corssing right in front of jim larkin
im a big fan of the statue, (not so much the man) and altough the light fittings arn’t as big as the usuall black ones they do sorta stick in front of the statue taking from it’ll be hard to take picture without getting a traffic light in the frame
A good news story from O’Connell St….
I noticed a recent planning application to expand the Centra at 16 O’Connell St. This is the mid-terrace shop just after Clery’s. The proposal involved knocking through into No. 15 and erecting new signage etc. It would have looked awful and completely ruined the fact that these are two seperately designed buildings. The fact that there are already a zillion other convenience stores in the area added to my poor opionion of this development.
I was considering an objection and went to the Planning Office only to find the proposal had been refused by DCC on the ground that it would ruin the exsiting terrace and be contrary to the provisons of the new Architectural Conservation Area for O’C St. It also noted that no more permissions for fastfood outlets or convenience stores would be granted along O’Connell St.
A quiet victory of sorts and a promising development for the street.
Regarding the new lighting. There does seem to be an awful lots of lighting in the cental median. You can now see the fixtures that will be used. I have seem them used a lot in London. I am looking forward to the new lighting scheme being switched on… any idea when?
A good news story from O’Connell St….
I noticed a recent planning application to expand the Centra at 16 O’Connell St. This is the mid-terrace shop just after Clery’s. The proposal involved knocking through into No. 15 and erecting new signage etc. It would have looked awful and completely ruined the fact that these are two seperately designed buildings. The fact that there are already a zillion other convenience stores in the area added to my poor opionion of this development.
I was considering an objection and went to the Planning Office only to find the proposal had been refused by DCC on the ground that it would ruin the exsiting terrace and be contrary to the provisons of the new Architectural Conservation Area for O’C St. It also noted that no more permissions for fastfood outlets or convenience stores would be granted along O’Connell St.
A quiet victory of sorts and a promising development for the street.
Regarding the new lighting. There does seem to be an awful lots of lighting in the cental median. You can now see the fixtures that will be used. I have seem them used a lot in London. I am looking forward to the new lighting scheme being switched on… any idea when?
A good news story from O’Connell St….
I noticed a recent planning application to expand the Centra at 16 O’Connell St. This is the mid-terrace shop just after Clery’s. The proposal involved knocking through into No. 15 and erecting new signage etc. It would have looked awful and completely ruined the fact that these are two seperately designed buildings. The fact that there are already a zillion other convenience stores in the area added to my poor opionion of this development.
I was considering an objection and went to the Planning Office only to find the proposal had been refused by DCC on the ground that it would ruin the exsiting terrace and be contrary to the provisons of the new Architectural Conservation Area for O’C St. It also noted that no more permissions for fastfood outlets or convenience stores would be granted along O’Connell St.
A quiet victory of sorts and a promising development for the street.
Regarding the new lighting. There does seem to be an awful lots of lighting in the cental median. You can now see the fixtures that will be used. I have seem them used a lot in London. I am looking forward to the new lighting scheme being switched on… any idea when?
Pretty soon, the 70s floodlights on the buildings have been covered over with black plastic in anticipation of the big switch on – or switch off.
That’s good to hear about Centra and that terrace – I never noticed that planning notice – was the decision to grant permission for Super Valu made before or after this supposed ban on any other convenience stores?
There are a lot of the median lights alright – they’re the same as the ones in that park off Gardiner St – they’re in the IAP too.
I’ll have pics later.Maybe its just a guess, but those new ‘massive’ lights on the plaza maybe adjustable via remote control??
Also, I noted from the list of protected structures from DCC that ALL of the bollards in front of the GPO were protected – alas only two were re-installed. Who was responsible for this???!!!!
Otherwise the whole project seems o be coming together – in part at least. Then we have mayday to look forward to and it will be all wrecked…. Any bets on all those trees being intact on Tuesday next???!!!
Given that the crusties are supposed to be in favour of protecting the environment, I would’nt put it passed them however if they vandalized the trees and street. Such is their somewhat twisted and anarchic ideology. If that will be the case thay are no better than the gurriers who wantonly snap in half the newly planted tree saplings in housing estates.
Anyone see the plant containers that have been placed around the city….ie O’Connell Bridge, the Boardwalk, High Street. They have these new ‘Hanging Gardens of Babylon’ quirky looking 3 tiered things planted up with ivy and perennials as well as the regular box containers. Placed in proper street locations could look really good however. A great way of greening the city too.
Some of the plants along the Boardwalk are looking decidedly exotic – pretty pricey too. The planters are a bit too over-powering for the boardwalk, as if they’re concealing the fact that there’s not enough seating along the bare walls.
All of the GPO bollards have been listed for well over 10 years now – walking by the other day it is easy to see how the CC may be viewing them as an obstruction in the context of the new paving and plaza.
I’ll give them till the end of June when this phase is offically finished – and if they’re not back by then it’ll be time to follow it up.Anyway here’s the first of many pics from yesterday, Thursday the 29th – the big lights.
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