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O’ Connell Bridge House only recently got a make over …….and although an anchor point here on the bridge it is a great pity that it is’nt a bit more stylish. There is too much clutter on the top and the new glass is rather dull. I thought the make over would have been a lot better. Would the wanting Liberty Hll please get a make over too….how about some sexy reflective shiney glass for all, (people realize now how good the spire looks in the sunshine with it’s reflective surface….. the penny has dropped).
A restaurent on the top of O’Connnell Bridge is a brilliant idea …(any entrepenuers out there with lots of money to splash about in their hometown rather than abroad)….I bet the restaurent concept with a good marketing edge would be a tremendous success. Give that loopline bridge a makeover too. This area could really look great from the Ha’penny or Millennium bridge …especially at night if it were all lit up too.The problem wirth Liberty Hall is that it has reflective glass…. originally it had non-reflective glass and seemed transparent.
Just to add …..but jesus are’nt appartment sizes here absolutely laughable….really. Even the most expensive and latest ‘La-De-Da’ ones on the market. Why are people so willing to spend their money on such mediocre dross.
Ever see abroad in Europe or the USA appartments with double doors, high ceilings, spacious rooms, etc… aka room to breathe and live. You see the like in the movies.
They are only convienences that they build here…….somewhere for someone to stay whilst they go to work.
(The height factor is a cause here too).I agree but the problem I have always found with property in Ireland is that there is absolutely no variety or choice. All houses look the same. All apartments look the same (at least internally). It basically a case of developers providing the lowest common denominator (and calling it ‘stunning’, ‘majestic’, ‘its not an apartment its a lifestyle’) and everyone laps dem up for de kids so dat dey can afford to get on de property ladder.
Its so thoroughly depressing. We all aspire to have a little Georgian pad in Ranelagh because they have high ceilings and large windows and actually resemble somewhere you would want to live. Unfortunately there is limited stock available and it costs a fortune.
I have friends living in the Old Distillery off Smithfield. Lokks okay from the outside although it is being let go a little…poor estate management (have we been there before!). Inside there are ‘delightful’ shoe boxes with their cardboard walls and their windowless bathrooms with noisy automatic extractor fan and obligatory yellow water stain on the ceiling. Utterly predicatable…and best of all €1,200 a month!
The thing that amazes me are friends who buy (they’re all at it thses days) and ask with joyous expectation on their eyes..’what do you think’! They are generally visibly hurt when I say’It the SAME as everyone elses!’
Sad thing about the height discussion is that we now have the spire at 120 metres but a relatively small city such as Winnipeh has two buildings higher:
TD Centre 140.0 m
Richardson Building 124.1 mOh dear. Liberty Hall originally had proper, transparent glass, but a bomb exploded outside the building in the 70’s, and shattered most of it’s windows. Hence they were replaced with the present ghastly mirror glass. Some of the original glass can still be seen in a column of windows stretching down the entire centre of the building to it’s rear, which was’nt affected by the blast. It can be seen from Abbey Street.
Ah…. that’s what is wrong with the Liberty Hall…I bet they replaced only the windows that were broken with reflective glass….. hence it’s lack of uniformity. I bet those warped window frames need replacing too.
Liberty Hall could look excellent if the original clear glass was restored and the facade given a general sprucing up. The floor that they did fix up as part of the theatre venue in the ajoining Connolly Hall looks very nice, please finish the job.
And reopen the viewing platform too, could be a nice little earner for the comrades and bretheren in SIPTU – there ain’t no bombs round these parts no more.
interestingly there are two planning applications in the north dock area for relatively tall buildings, a nine story residential building on the corner of west road and sheriff street and a twelve story residential, office and resteraunt on the corner of castleforbes st and sheriff street. these seem to lie outside the ddda remit in that they seem to require planning permission from dcc.
Hmmmm.
Interestingly, in the Destruction of Dublin, Frank Mc Donald describes how the mosaic tiles on the solid elements of Liberty Hall (under the windows) are peeling off, are dirty and overall how the building looks shoddy.
This was written in 1984!!!
If snazzy transparent, green tinted glass was used, and attractive sandstone effect panels were used to clad the building (like Iveagh Court on Adelaide Road) it would look extremely well, and become a decent landmark building, instead of the withering pile it currently is.
12 and 9 storeys Notjim….I’m having a nosebleed at the thoughts …but no one will never survive such high attitudes……heh heh ….only kidding! ………and yep indeed Graham Liberty Hall definitely needs restoration or a make over/upgrade especially if they are to build that new Tara Street train station across the Liffey
What happened to the lighting on Liberty Hall. A couple of years ago the lighting of the crown of the building was fixed up and it looked wonderful at night with the zig-zaggy crown floating over dublin. Recently (this winter) the lights seem to be left turned off of else only a few bits turned on. What’s happening?
greg f, not big i know, but relatively big. the applications are interesting for two reasons, the nine story block is actually in the east wall and adjoins cottages and the 12 story is in the ddda area but is still going through the dcc, is this because it exceeds the heights given in the masterplan. 9 stories at the edge of the east wall, it would make obvious how stupid 6-7 along the liffey is.
“corner of west road and sheriff street”?
Should that be corner of east road and sheriff st, or west road and ossary?
Funny you ask about the lighting ew, as I thought the same. So when I was up on the viewing gallery I checked it out.
There’s about 10 floodlights on the floor of the gallery, which are supposed to be directed up onto the ‘frilly roof’, but quite a few of them are just lieing on their sides, others are’nt plugged into the outdoor sockets provided, and its likely that half of the bulbs are blown as well. Indeed they are so shoddly installed that I could lift and move them around to fit my tripod in the most convinient place! But for the betterment of the city, and being the civic minded kind of person that I am, I walked around, turning the lights into their correct positions. Unfortunatly, I forgot to bring a couple of 800w bulbs along!
That’s so shoddy. I see what you mean though, at:
http://www.fantasyjackpalance.com/fjp/photos/city/0codec/liberty-hall-016.html
It is very effective when it works though isn’t it. A box of bulbs and 20 minutes would get it back to rights.
And Dr. J actually just smashed that section of railing away to get a better fit for the tripod….
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