Tara Street Station, Redevelopment, Dublin

I have to say that I like the look of this but I find it very annoying that the other buildings and features surrounding it, such as the rest of the Georges Quay development, are still not shown. The geezer pyramids have to be shown in these views in order to illustrate how crowded or otherwise that area will be, although I assume the developers of the pyramids are reluctant to hand over drgs. Is this new building higher than the pyramids? It looks as though it may be in between the highest and lowest towers. But regardless of how it looks, it has to be a train station that is functional and safe and with enough capacity to handle the commuters as well as the commercial traffic.

I think they should definitely build the new Tara Street proposal…..it would act as an anchor at this point and a gateway with Liberty Hall across the Liffey as already stated. The Loopline bridge definitely needs to be remodelled as what was once proposed; a much lighter structure is needed….not because of the views of the Custom House but so as to minimise that obtrusive visual break in the city. (I think the emphasis on the Custom House is too much…. especially when one thinks that all we are looking at is a shell of a once important building as like the Four Courts) It’s a gas to see too, that people have changed their oppinions to in favour regarding the Georges Quay development…..I am not saying it is great but I remember it was once lambasted on these forums….I prefer this to the over scaled awkwardly fitting SOM proposal that was once mooted….The stack scheme seems to fit much better on the quays despite it being ‘a regular building’ in some other countries/cities abroad. Us Irish still have to learn how scale and height operates and works in an urban and city environment…..we are so naive.

Ah the poor Loopline bridge, clean it, paint it and it we’d learn to love it. Any bridge there would create a visual break. It is convenient that there is a break there anyway in the city grain and fine victorian cast iron bridge is as good at celebrating that break as something lighter and more obviously built in the context of the newer buildings to the east.