west gate development kilmainham
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What is the update on the 32 storey tower in Heuston? This was granted full permission in 2005 and it is now the latter half of 2007. Does anyone know if construction has started on this? Will it be behind the Westgate development or will it also front onto the main Galway road?
Anyone see what they’re building around the corner beside Kilmainham Gaol. Ok, the Hilton hotel doesn’t look bad, but the apppartments under construction beside it are squat little blocks with vertical strips on the windows. Kinda look horrible at the mo.
Yeah, that’s a very poor development, especially given that it’s one of the most-visited tourist spots outside the city centre. The apartments manage to be too low, yet visually overbearing. I can’t recall the strips on the windows, but they have horrible, massive, chunky balconies. The Hilton’s not great either. There’s a weird vertical mesh-type feature running up the front that I can imagine will weather well.
Obviously that should have read “can’t imagine”!
[quoteI hate this sort of thing. If a design is too high then it should go back to the drawing board instead of having what’s usually the most interesting element chopped off. In this case if that taller part goes then what’s left is just a plain, boring, more of the same type building.
This is why I hate height reductions, either build the thing properly or don’t build it at all.
.[/QUOTE]A tall building should be like a pair of trousers:made to fit, proportionate not arbitrary, not like a length of sausage meat that you can chop any length you want and slap it up.
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