Pearse St / Sandwith St proposal
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http://www.tcd.ie/Buildings/images/anpost2.jpg
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Ha ha i like these average Dubliners 😉
http://www.tcd.ie/Buildings/images/anpost6.jpg
I like it overall though, i’s great to see some big buildings going up on this street, it all might help link the new Docklands up more with the city. I imagine it’ll inevitably be coming down a few storeys though. 🙁@Thomond Park wrote:
http://www.tcd.ie/Buildings/images/anpost2.jpg
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Is Trinity full of vampires? What’s with the small windows. It’s the same on the Nassau Street side. I don’t get it.
labs and libraries need small windows, its always a problem when designing university science buildings, make them too big and they end up covered in sellotaped pieces of a4, yuck.
It’s a little shocking cos I walk past it everyday and am used to the vacant gap! An improvement over Goldsmith Hall next door.
I agree – though I can’t decide whether I like it or hate it.
Anyone know who the architect and developer are?
The architects are Robinson Keefe Devine RKD
The developers are Trinity College Dublin
It’s a good rendering , but the building looks very bulky and cumbersome as it dwarfs the little Georgian two storey houses beside it, (although it is the same height as the newer building on its other side.) While I’m all for height and substantial buildings …..this might be a bit too massive….maybe its the view here too that don’t do it justice. They should build it if its needed i suppose.
Has a decision yet been made in respect of http://www.tcd.ie/Buildings/projectspearcestreet.php ?
I quite like the lower sections…I think it might be okay without the copper “sails” on top. Otherwise it is indeed a quite bulky building, although this may well be the angle its seen at. I’d like to see another perspective.
Has a decision yet been made in respect of http://www.tcd.ie/Buildings/projectspearcestreet.php ?
I think its still in planning…. last I saw there were a large number of requests for further info.
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I agree – though I can’t decide whether I like it or hate it.
Anyone know who the architect and developer are?
I can’t decide whether I like it or hate it either.
@notjim wrote:
labs and libraries need small windows, its always a problem when designing university science buildings, make them too big and they end up covered in sellotaped pieces of a4, yuck.
Thanks, didn’t realise that.
Trace I have always respected your incisive wit but in this case I feel you are being a little harsh on this design.
It is certainly large but I think it is fairly representative of the scale of expansion required by TCD and being located at a transport interchange such as Pearse Station the bigger picture would dictate that the maximum floorspace be provided once such provision does not injure the amenities of the area.
I will be watching the letters page of the Irish Times to see the reaction of vocal resident John Devlin to see his reaction.
Decision due on this any day now. This site should heave been CPO’ed decades ago by CIE-but seein’ as they’re up to their oxters in property development too it’s no surprise we get TCD ravaging Pease St. as usual.
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