Point Village
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STW are always very safe or even bland with their designs. Some of their buildings look very refined, clean and quite striking(Spencer Dock Development)but alot of their architecture is quite soulless and unimaginative i feel
I don’t think Scott Tallon Walker have been since the late 70s. Ever since its been
Grey cladding
all right angles
except for 45 degree roofed atriums
Golden section windows
Stagnation
Funny window canopies
Bland
Cheap college buildings
Grey
Boring
More greyness
Dull corporate architecturewith one or two exceptions..
But wasn’t the watchtower redesigned by some British ‘fenestration’ company? Replacing the even blander uglier stw design.
DCC should have sent them back for a fourth redesign I reckon.
Already posted this but its been overlooked obviously. As soon as a big lift shaft starts going up toward the left hand side and at the back of the current construction – that will be the tower. No sign yet.
A real tower, compare this to anything proposed for Dublin? Perhaps the DDDA should take a trip to Dubai to see twisting and height.
@CC105 wrote:
Perhaps the DDDA should take a trip to Dubai to see twisting and height.
…and unsustainable vanity projects built on virtual slave labour.
Walked past the whole development today on my way down Castleforbes road. This is a damn big project, about 8 piles in the site, some underground parking is starting to take shape and there is still a huge hole where there tower should be, lots and lots of work going on. The point is half stripped, only the front facade left, and some huge steel beams going up behind it already. I took a pic with my phone, Apologies for the dodgy angle! 😛
I’d say its the shopping centre Paul …
Anyone who can really should go down to have a look at this site in the flesh. I passed it today and it is a development of mammoth proportions. It’s a like a warzone down there! Massive levels of excavation over vast tracts of land, huge lift shafts sternly cropping up across the landscape, sprawling steel section frames rising like Meccano sets, the site teeming with life, and all against the backdrop of a gutted shell of a Point Theatre.
Truly incredible scenes – well worth a look.Any thing on the tower yet? foundation works? will be interesting to see developement of the tower through 2008, this is the only of the proposed high rise developements that’s defo going ahead as far as I know. Heuston Gate and U2 Tower seem to be suspended in planning oblivion. The National conference centre will be quite tall though. Nearly as tall as Liberty Hall.
Heauston Gate has planing permission and will go ahead,apparently its waiting on a fire cert.AFAIK this tower should be under construction by now so have no idea whats going on.
is anyone else worried that the tower element of the point development may become a casualty of the propety slump or even delayed until the market recovers? i presume that apartments in such a landmark building would quite be expensive, thereofre im thinking that given the current market conditions would they sell??
Rent them out. After the shopping centre is fully let I’d be surprised if its investment value didn’t cover land cost plus construction cost (provided of course that market holds up in some way). After that it’s profit.
I agree the shopping centre will deliver significant investment value as the area literally from Clontarf to Merrion is seriously under shopped.
I don’t subscribe to a major residential housing slump in the medium term as supply has virtually dried up if recent housing starts are anything to go by; if this is built it will take at least 2 years to completion allowing plenty of time for the market to recover like it did in late 1993 after the 1991 slump.
@Overworked wrote:
I think this is interesting !!
Not sure about that very square looking point depot, tower looks lost all on its own
@Overworked wrote:
I think this is interesting !!
Point looks like a petrol station. Some kind of dome surely would be the natural thing.
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