Shopfront Signage
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Hi !
I don’t know if this has been discussed before but would it be possible to bring in a law so that shop fronts in Dublin are not allowed to have neon or plastic backlit signage ?
I think they’d be much more tasteful with wooden or granite fronts & down lighting – goes for all the fast food joints too. I mean how many McDonalds/Burgerkings do you need on your city’s main thoroughfare ?
Griffin
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Ah come on, again we have the case here of going from one extreme to another. There is a place for everything. Neon signage add life to a dull city at night.(What do you bloody want gas lamps!) There are a few remaining examples of such signs in Dublin ie – the ‘Why go Bald ‘sign off South Great Georges Street or the Bailey’s drink sign on the corner of O’Connell Street.In the sixties Dublin suffered greatly from over modernisation ridding the city of it’s period architectural stock etc….. but now we have the other extreme of where we are all for everything antique and retro. This retro business borders on nothing more but pastiche or kitch….(and to think that neon signage is regarded as kitch…TUT!) We’ll end up living in a disneyland as I always state.
This is now 2000AD and we are no longer under the reign of the three King Georges so please relate the city of Dublin to the context we are living in today.Yes correctly preserve and conserve our architectural past but do not hinder the future progress or of the city of Dublin opting to live in a mythological city of the past. -
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Yeah – I’ve seen a b + w photo of it – excellent animation of a sausage hurtling the length of the Irish Times building (I think).
It amazes me – between economic decline and the predations of the SturmGeorgianPolizei – how little evidence has survived that this country passed throught the twentieth century at all.
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