Tara street station

Here’s the original discussion. The tallest point of the station will be taller than Liberty Hall; some elevations had to be reduced by at two or more storeys but not the tall glass one.

https://archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1320

Interesting to note on the associated thread that some people lament the fact that Kennedy’s pub couldn’t be bulldozed to make way for the shiny, spiffy, oh-so-comtemporary Tara St station (which 20 years later will probably look as awful as most modern architecture).

It’s a great old pub, and Dublin needs it far more than it needs 20 more square metres of minimalist soulless w*nk-space.

P.

no really, tell us what you really think of modernist architecture

What is proposed for Tara St? I only heard about it from here.

http://www.archeire.com/onsite/tara_street/index.html

The building is approved by DCC and An Bord Pleanála, so budget constraints or lack of demand for office space is presumably why there is no activity on the site.

It will probably suffer the same fate as the Georges Quay development beside it and end up having to wait for the next boom before being built!

With all the cutbacks, I can’t see there being much money in the Iarnrod Eireann kitty. But why can’t they use the overhead space for apartments instead of offices? Surely this would make the whole thing more than viable, given the demand for housing compared to office space at the moment.