Yuck!!!
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People talk of ugly buildings….
Has anyone seen “Chatham House” on Chatham Street?
Were the “Great Outdoors” shop is? Absolutely Dire.
Come on! Tell us of more ugly buildings other than the predictables (aka I know Hawkins house is ugly….yawn…)
How about the ILAC for starters?
J. 😎
How about the stunningly ugly Rhode power station?
(Picture is a bit small, sorry.)
The tall white bunker in Guinness is very bad indeed, and is one of the tallest buildings in the city to boot.
A few ugly buildings I wouldn’t mind driving a ball and chain into are….(in no particular order) fingal offices and Dublin bus building on o’ Connell street oh yeah and the eircom building and the hotel across the road. The new lime green Suhew(spelling??) building near the bottom of the said street. The airport hotel in santry or is it the skylon?? The EBS building on Westmoreland Street, the matter hospital looks pretty dire as well, most of the buildings in and around the airport….
Oh, I forgot, what about the hideously sick and vile Regency Airport Hotel – an absolute heap of junk thrown together…..
Speaking of Yuck – has anyone seen the replacement for Pelican House on Mespil Road – Bland Bland Bland. Looks like anything you’d find in Sandyford Ind. Est. or Citywest
EBS wouldn’t be so bad if it were symmetrical. The next owners will probably remove the nasty flashing E-B-S.
The 70s block of buildings on South Great George’s Street. The big orange first floor of that discount shop on Talbot Street that looks like the top deck of a bus! (if it’s still there)
I spotted a planning application from Clerys in the paper one day for changes to the North Earl St side of their shop!!!
Prizes must go to that block on South Great Georges Street. It’s not that bad really, but it totally massacres O’Connell Bridge House when it comes to being in completely the wrong bloody place.
I quite like the Clery’s side facade, it works quite well with the contrast between the brown brick and the new white cut stone sign with silver lettering, although yes, it does gauge a massive hole into an essentially uniform and attractive Edwardian street.
All of those ghastly blocks around Tara St, Pearse St etc are all strong contenders, Oisin House and the like…
I’ve renamed my desktop trash bin “an taisce” and have put all your profiles in it.
South Gt. Georges st. is an amazingly butch building – I love it.It hulks itself down the street in an unashamedly horizontal manner, just about twists direction and lumbers on to the George … hmm … well when you look behind you see that even on the vulnerable “underbelly” of a street building … it’s hard. No compromising. A building with a thousand hangovers and the Alka Seltzer is out of date…. ahh
The Sth Great Georges Street Buildings (Castle House and Wicklow House I assume) are literally the wrong buildings in the wrong location – they were designed for a site in Leeds and ended up being used over here by the developer – they will be getting a makeover soon I believe to turn the emphasis to verticle rather than horizontal and some other tricks, brick rather than concrete facades etc so watch this space…
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