Spencer Dock plan wins centre race

sorry to drift off topic, but i always wondered if it was worth carry on to the east point business park, there are huge numbers working there and there’ll be huge numbers living along east wall road soon. carrying on the port is of course crazy, maybe a shuttle bus at the very most and a pretty small one at that.

thanks god they chose spencer dock for the ncc, first its a nice building relative to the certainty that any conference centre would have a lot of blank wall, a, and b, the other site would have surely ended up in courts.

agreed. anything other than just a taxi would be handy.

Wasn’t a proposed NCC several years ago way taller? I can sort of remember a proposal that included some highrise buildings as an NCC. It was knocked on the head though from what I can remember.

It might take a while to walk from the station to the port. It just seems to be a good bit out of the way. I haven’t used the port in a good few years mind. To be honest it is easier to fly by plane these days.

the glass on the ncc proposal looks nice. it makes the front look well. i am not sure about the wall facing the city though. i guess we will just have to wait and see what the end result looks like.

I can’t find the Kevin Roche plans, would be interested in seeing them too.

just though id ask which is the final spencer dock plan? the one on the website or the one on treasurys website?

Are you refering to the SpencerDock.ie site?

This is the photomontage from TH:

And from Spencerdock.ie

Look the same to me. The former includes the NCC.

@ihateawake wrote:

Could anyone tell me please where i can get some images , or post them if you like, of the kevin roche spencer dock plan?? I’d be really interested in seeing this predecessor to the idustrial crap that goin up now:(

There are photomontages and details about this building in Frank McDonald’s The Construction of Dublin (oops, put wrong name of book in originally, but edited)

You can just about see it in the top one of the two images above, but it is hard to make out.

You might also want to have a look at the Kevin Roche John Dinkaloo web-page:

http://www.krjda.com/flash.html

It should pop up, but if not, go to the ‘Theatre and Exhibition’ section of ‘projects’, and it is listed there. It just shows a computer generated image of the inside and outside.

if you select current work from the projects menu & then select dublin national conference centre there’s a better image showing side elevation etc….

@ihateawake wrote:

is mayor street intended to become a major population thoroughfare, retail, etc. or is it to remain in the clutches of the banking elite?

The entry to Mayor Street from Busaras is strangely forbidding the first time you see it. you get the feeling you are entering private property. The street is very busy during the day and well worth checking out. It is intended to run the Luas along Mayor Street but the local banks would prefer a bus along the quays. The apartment dwellers along Mayor Street and the future residents of Spencer Dock will probably choose Mayor Streat as a route into town as it is more direct, pedestrian-friendly, commerical and less windswept than the quays.