will sligo clip the wings of Dunlop and Murray

It is a pity, as it looks like a good design.

But it begs the question why they didn’t design it for somewhere else in Sligo.

Rightly or wrongly An Taisce and other conservationists will attempt to protect built heritage. That should always be remembered prior to design. There are many locations in all our towns and cities that could do with a building of that design standard, that everyone would be happy to see going in.

Good luck finding clients with less controversial sites, I can think of more than a few places that could do with something very similar

i’m not sure supportive is what i’d aim for here alan. my opinion and others is what i’d like to exchange and consider. i simply expressed a passing resemblance between your facade and that of a building i admire. problem?

if you’re looking for support you should probably go to your client or hire some yes men. i’m just going to give you my biased architectural opinion.

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Sorry James, you seem like a decent enough cove but I’ve lost interest

your dismissive comments dont exactly invite one to engage with you. why is your guard so high?

but it’s not excellent Diasopra, that’s the point. It is a building that apart from being built in 1820 has no outstanding architectural features. It is not recorded in any records as being of historical or architectural merit what so ever. I support the retention of historic buildings but they have to have real merit surely? Otherwise we stagnate and tell everyone in Ireland and Scotland we are more interested in the past than the future.

And I’ll say again, our client does not own a site by the river as An Taisce suggested we should stick this design or in the town centre. This is his site and we are responding to his needs and we think to people in sligo who wish to see their town encourage sensitive and contemporary architecture. By not allowing the replacement of this structure the whole project does not stack up financially so goes down the drain.

It is my understanding that the heritage group involved sent a student of architecture from Dublin to Sligo and on that basis a list of 200 protected structures was determined. What way is that to run a regeneration plan, it’s fucking bizarre

I think this may be the only building in Sligo Yeats did not have tea in Fin, although it has been a police station, a jail and a knocking shop. The last one is, I admit heresay

Well Alan your developer should have thought of all the site implications when Scoping his residual Development analysis.

That is what makes successful developers, they know when to keep their chequebooks in their pockets

An Architect is a professional who works to client request, you did everything asked of you and probably a bit more in this case.

It is in my opinion the developers own fault, one quick phonecall to a savy town planning consultant with local knowledge and a clearer picture emerges.

As for the town house not being excellent, I disagree there is more to architectural heritage than Georgian set pieces, good vernacular architecture is equally important given the history of this nation. It may surprise you but Yale university has published many works on Irish Vernacular culture including buildings and other effects.

given what history? and from ur comments i gather u think we should save all this georgian crap. what i said was without variety then it would look terrible. which would eventually mean that dublin stretches down to my part of the country. i can’t think of anything worse. because of all this semi-d shit that all developers seem determined to put up as nearly everybody seems determined to want to live in..
i was generally critising an taisce beacuse i think they are idiots with nothing better to do than object to everything that might modernise our tiny little island. they are clones of the evil devalera.

Not being a member of An Taisce I can’t speak for them. But I feel that there is a certain lack of objectivity here on peoples interpretation of them.

An Taisce from what I understand are a proscibed body under the the 1963 planning act. They must be consulted before any works can be commenced on any protected structure.

Where structures are not protected An Taisce rarely has any interest, unless the scale of that development would have an impact upon other protected structures.

The number of objections An Taisce makes in any given year is miniscule in relation to the objections locals make.

If you want to see real obstructionism, remember Treasury holdings purchasing a bar on Moore St and holding up the Carlton Cinema development for years.