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Why is it that new buildings are never built in the style of places like Brown Thomas or Roches. They are extraordinarily beautiful buildings and instead of building timber cladded buildings with aluminium and plastic features….. wouldn’t it be nice to see more of those works of art built in the city centre where they would fit in more and give a boulevardian feel to the city.
I read in the Echo today that a Water Bus might soon be arriving in the Lee to attract touists to the city centre. It will turn from being a normal bus into a boat when it drives into the river, like ones found in Liverpool and Boston. It sounds like a good idea and it would be another tourist attraction for Cork.
Fingers and toes will be crossed for that date as usual. Would be great to have another landmark building in the line up for the new year. Can’t wait for Academy Street. 2006 looks to be a promising year.
Bosco-your a legend. I love nothing more than seeing photos of work in progress-esp something like the airport. I love the photos. Like Jungle said already about the new terminal beign built to cope with 2.5 million passengers, I think once the new terminal is occupied the current one should be re-developed by Ryanair-I feel they need a proper base in Ireland since Dublin lost out with their recent decision to develop in Germany. Can you imagine Cork airport with two terminals before Dublin even pours the foundation for their 2nd terminal-a slap in the face for Irelands Capital and the Government for being so slow in implementing anything
I couldn’t have said it better my self. Good on ya Bosco. I’ve been dying for those pictures for weeks and weeks. I have a question though…. which will be Terminal 1 and which will be Terminal 2, the new or the old part? I read in the Echo weeks ago that the old terminal will be used for more than just office use, i.e. an extra terminal. I would love to see Ryanair take over the old terminal (we’ll call it T1 for the sake of it) and also charter flights during the summer. With long delays most of the time, they’ll crowd up T2 if the use it. Also heard that with the new open skies agreement thingy between the EU and the US, it will alow more foreign airlines to use Cork. Maybe we might get our scheduled transatlantic flights after all. Shannon will loose out though, with only 1 in 4 flights going to stopover from 2006. Delighted with the pics. thanks again. Oh and while I’m at it…. where is the connection going to be from T1 to T2. It says in the plans that there will be some sort of sheltered link between the two. Any ideas?
I know what you mean….. it is hard to believe. It’s such a shame that the railway bridge that went over the Lee isn’t used anymore. 🙁
Thinking about it recently after seeing that horrible photo of Victoria Cross, would you blame the locals for wanting to cap suburban building heights at three storeys. I think that Victoria Cross scared people sh*tless. It’s a manky building and if I thought that I’d have to look at a group of those out side my sitting room window, I’d die. But obviously, the residents aren’t with it if they think that people will stand for more of those shoeboxes to be built. It was a once off…… I hope, and I can’t see buildings like that getting the go ahead in Cork again. Anyways… what about the Airport? What is this large investment it is to get?
I would, in the long-term, be of the view that both CCC and CorkCoCo, in conjunction with the DoT/RPA etc should look very seriously into providing a competent rail-link to Ringaskiddy from the city (possibly with stops at Carrigaline – the most car dependent town in Ireland), Rochestown and linking up with the old rail corridor via Mahon Point and into the city, via the docklands. It makes good economic, environmental and social sense.
It’s a brilliant idea lex, but knowing our Government, it wont happen. I’d love to force the Minister of Transport to read all of our ideas, maybe then he’ll know what infrastructre really is. I would like to see an independant Cork City bus service set up (like Dublin Bus) and also the Cork Commuter Railway (like Dart). If it was in control of local people they would have a better idea of our public transportation needs.
I would have thought that the governments main priority would be to electrify all railways in Ireland. They had a better rail network in Soviet Russia. Those diesel things should be scrapped. They’re old, dirty and not half as fast as an electrified railway. I’m not saying that we need TGV type trains going at 320mph, but clean and more efficiant trains would be nice.
It looks very similar to areas of Prague or Budapest. That gothic type of architecture is very prominant throughout the building.
Heard that Argos are to open out in MahonPoint. Any date yet? Oh, and about that Transport21 thingy or whatever it’s called, what do they mean when they said that Cork Airport was also mentioned for investment in the future? Maybe the third and fourth airbridges?
Who will operate the Cork-Midleton rail service? I’ve heard that it is to be a private company taking over the operation, with Irish Rail still retaining ownership of the track. Any ideas on who it could be?
I love those sculptures on Custom House aswell, and love getting to see ’em when I go to Dublin. If Sinn Fein had their way, they’d probably be knocked down, crushed, melted and re-made as a 1916 war memorial.
Is there a residents group for the construction of “high-rise” buildings…. if some people have a group against them, why cant we have a group for them? I wanna give a good smack to anyone involved in banning these buildings. Do they relise that what was the suburbs 50 years ago is part of the city centre today. One day the council will have no other option then to chuck this new ban out the window….. even the so called suburbs have suburbs in Cork. This ban wont last at all.
I found some interesting pictures of Heathrow’s new Terminal 5 today when I was looking around on the net. I saw a few pictures that looked familiar when compared to Cork’s new terminal. Have a look at some of these pictures, the second one might be an insight into what the interior of our new terminal will look like when completed.
Who judges what the population of Dublin is… and where do they draw the line. From what I’m learning in school, Dublin has a population of about 450,000. Obviously this is only the greater Dublin area and I’m sure if you were to include all of the satellite towns you could count all day. But unfortunetly this isn’t what cities are judged by. You are comparing Dublin (including suburbs and satellite towns) with Glasgow’s greater population, which is wrong… as you are excluding about another million people from Scotlands largest city. It’s like in London… greater London has 8 million people, everyone says that that is the official population, but include the suburbs and commuter belt, and the population of London as a whole turns into something more along the lines of 18 million. It’s too hard to judge and in the end…. nobody ends up right when judging a population.
Starbucks would be great to have in Cork, just to say that we have one…. but beside the difference in the colour of their cups… what is the main difference between Costa, Starbucks and Gloria Jeans? I am anxious to see someone going into the former Irish Rail office on Patrick Street…. it’s abit cramped, but it could still be put to some sort of use (Starbucks maybe). A Hyatt Hotel in Cork, I’m glad to hear it! It should provide some competition with the Clarion. Although with a golf course, I presume that it will be more for golfing weekends more than anything else. Isn’t there supposed to be a Hilton going out in Mahon Point, I havent heard anything about it in ages, is it still on?
I wonder has it anything to do with Cork being twinned with San Francisco. What will happen the prison in the northside…. it’s a rotten old dump, it’s what you expect from a prison in Soviet Russia. Nobody should be subject to having to piss into a plastic bucket in the middle of a room that the in-mates must spend 20 hours a day in. And PTB, I haven’t been out in County Hall in ages, but I would suspect that the statue was taken away for the time being.
