O’Connell Bridge House
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I’m not being sarcastic. That’s been the skyline for thirty years, longer than I’ve been around.
The exception is the rooftop peeking over Hawkins House, and hopefully if we get Southbank, Tara St Station, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, the U2 building, the Point tower and the National Conference Centre the skyline from the East Link will be what the next generation remembers of modern Dublin, rather than a few derelict 1960s lumps with dubious planning permission.Dublin doesn’t really have any “views” as such with the river included. Other than O’CBH, Lib Hall, Ha’penny and the liffey… nicely framed, well balanced view from Essex bridge. It’s what you see coming from the Heuston direction. Four Courts are about all you see going west.
Andrew Duffy’s pic shows that the Loopline doesn’t obliterate all views of the Custom House from the quays…
Well d_d_dallas, I’m from well inside the pale, and I’m not going to start with the true blue dub stuff, but I think O’Connell Bridge house is fine, its just a matter of taste, either you like it or hate it. I just happen to like it
I said it was an integral part of Dublin!
I don’t think it’s the most attractive building in the city – I do like the recladding though. But I think Dublin would be at a loss if it was gone – so I guess I kinda like it in a perverse way!I’m in the ‘hate it’ clique, indeed seething, blood-boiling, murderously inclined hatred would be more appropriate.
The last word I’ll say on it is that it’s so bad because it is on the city’s main throughfare, it can be seen from head to toe, brazenly dominating the city centre in a manner that Hawkins House and friends can only dream about. It isn’t just an ugly head of a building peering above the city’s 5 storeys, but rather a structure built to be seen, to dominate the surrounding buildings and hence is utterly destructive of the character of the city centre.
The remark about not having to live in a museum is dangerously reminesent of arguements put forward by developers (and notably Sam Stephenson) during the battle for Hume Street and Fitzwilliam Street.
well now if you compare details it’s actually fairly different, but the building above certainly has the same “feeling” as our own little fella.
except the manchester version looks more impressive because it’s taller.
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It only looks a bit similar from that angle aswell, since it’s actually quite long and thin. But I did notice it when I was there; it has the same Portland stone cladding and dark windows, and the same tendancy to show its roof above the tops of buildings for a few streets around it.
It also doesn’t have a 30m tall advertisement for lager on it.I quite like O’Connell Bridge House – buth the window renovation? How can you possibly carry out so much expensive work on a building and end up with it looking cheaper and nastier than it did before? I mean – puleeeze, dark tinted windows with shiny aluminium frames? Quelle fashion mistake.
For the full (and sordid) story of the construction of O’Connell Bridge House read Frank McDonald’s “The Destruction of Dublin” pages 34-39.
Some interesting names crop up such as Charlie Haughey, Des Traynor and the Guinness and Mahon Caymon Trust. This is where it all began!
I thought there were parking spaces associated with this building. Check out the description on the site of the agents looking to let it.
Where do the 55 spaces fit? Are they under the extension, with the entrance around the back?
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