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Fair enough,
Same selection of rubbish, and I have yet to connect M&S with a market town or new city quarter atmosphere.
Apparently the thinking is trying to create a mix between the new style of the West end of Temple Bar and the commercial success of Ranelagh.
An M&S would be a disaster in this development or Spencer Dock, why not have an Aldi cat least you could get nostalgic about all those 88-D cars
i meant don’t forget to add m&s to the centra, spar and mace list. i wasn’t saying it was good thing.
ps, i am hoping for an aldi at the point depot end. we need somewhere in the area to buy cheap packets of pasta and cartons of juice.
As an ex iFSC resident – I am now jelous that there is an M&S Simply food shop down there now – All that walking to Henry street to buy stuff, grr.
Correct that it shouldn’t be in Stack A but it’s in the right location on excise walk, and it’s a million miles away from Spar and their range of crap. Nowt wrong with Aldi/lidl though
i think this is getting a bit detailed, but the m&s simply food is too small and too expensive, the samwiches are better than spar etc, but it isn’t really so different. of course i live in the east wall so i amn’t the sort of people they are hoping for anyway.
now the milanos on excise walk is super, the staff are so friendly.
It looks like the 1986 original vision drawings of Georges Dock or the custom house docks as it was then. It must be the longest conservatory in the State if not Europe. I am not enirely sure on the standard of glazing and I think the angled bit at the top looks gimmacky and won’t look at all well in autumn.
That said the end elevation (jpeg5) looks great and the ‘conservatory’ frames the arch that has been quite forlorn in recent years. I was however under the impression that the entire scheme would have been of the same spec as the end.
A very mixed impression from the photos I am going to wait for completion before I know what my overall impression is.
it looks like a greenhouse from one of those garden centres. well pics 1/2/3. pic 5 is kinda confusing but i like the way the old stone(i presume) mixes well with the glazing. always knew they went well together. they seem to bring something out in each other.and that looks out to the river.
I was passing Stack A and all the hoardings have come down, it is starting to look fantastic I can’t wait until it opens. It really is a great bit of conservation architectural design and the Doclands Authority should have taken it on years before now. But to be fair the Docklands have delivered results and not derelict sites.
but what is going on, it has been finished for at least three months now and it looks fantastic but there is no sign of a final fit out.
Hopefully this will breath some life into the Docklands in terms of People actually using the spaces provided. Any time I’ve ventured up in that direction and especially around Clarion Quay, it seems to be a pristine, clean, architectural wasteland, these places seem devoid of life. Perhaps it is simply a coicidence, but outside office hours do these spaces ever look used :confused: ?
Yeah, you’re right, it was about 18 months ago! Good to hear things have changed, and hopefully the “New” Spencer Dock will continue that success
Yeah, I was down at the NCI yesterday and there is definitely a much better feel about the place.
Last year I’m sure I spotted a tumble weed blow by as I walked down Mayor St.A bit off the topic, I wonder will the move of the DITs out to Grangegorman affect life in the city.
The Kevin St, Aungier St area definitely won’t feel the same without the students. :confused:
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