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  • November 5, 2002 at 2:54 pm #705786
    Desmund
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    I hear conflicting reports regarding the accepted redevelopment of the above.

    Firstly, it’s been given the go ahead but two floors have had to go, thus making it smaller than liberty hall. Secondly, the proposed plan, it all it’s entirety has been aproved, making it taller than liberty hall. Does anyone know what exactly has been appproved?

    November 5, 2002 at 3:30 pm #722601
    Andrew Duffy
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    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

    November 7, 2002 at 11:15 am #722602
    Desmund
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    Cheers Andrew,

    I looked at the model as shown in the thread and it looks lower than liberty hall. Perhaps it’s just one of those optical illusions everyone’s talking about!

    Thanks again.

    November 12, 2002 at 1:36 pm #722603
    paul_moloney
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    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.

    November 14, 2002 at 12:02 pm #722604
    Rory W
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    no really, tell us what you really think of modernist architecture

    November 18, 2002 at 1:48 pm #722605
    GrahamH
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    What is proposed for Tara St? I only heard about it from here.

    November 18, 2002 at 1:54 pm #722606
    Andrew Duffy
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    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.

    November 20, 2002 at 1:44 pm #722607
    emf
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    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!

    November 20, 2002 at 2:17 pm #722608
    -Donnacha-
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    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.

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