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CIÉ intend that Tara Street will not be closed during the construction of the new building. They recently awarded a contract to Faber Maunsell (http://www.fabermaunsell.com/) to advise them on a new application (modifiying the existing permission) which would enable them to keep the station open.
Contract: http://www.etenders.gov.ie/Search/Search_Show.aspx?ID=FEB076414
That application (5941/06) was declared invalid: insufficient information on site notice, invalid newspaper notice, sub-minimum submission of plans, drawings, elevations etc, and insufficient Conservation Method Statement to support an application for change to a protected structure.
Computer Says No.
According to RTÉ, SIPTU’s national executive recently approved recommendations to knock down Liberty Hall and redevelop it. Apparently, they are now in negotiations with DCC with regard to these plans.
@Peter FitzPatrick wrote:
“Though the first phase of construction does not include a dock extension over the water, the landscape architects are hoping and planning for the extension and a continuation of the red carpet. If it comes to pass, it will also have red underlighting to glow on the water.”
This has to go ahead, anyone know why its not included in the first phase, is permission required ?
The extended platform is integral to the overall design, the red pathway looks stunted & out of proportion if it stops at the dock side …
Permission is required from Waterways Ireland who are the body responsible for the Grand Canal, not the DDDA.
Since National Irish was bought by Danske Bank, the Danes have imposed the parent bank’s style/image on NIB. Everything has changed except the names.
Here’s a shot of Danske Bank’s external signage.
The air bridges will not be built for now, but may be built at some later date if the customer base for that pier changes. For now, this pier is meant to allow for an expansion of low-cost short-haul services by Ryanair, Aer Lingus and the like, who are adamantly against the use of air bridges because of the associated service charges.
Also, air bridges slow down the turnaround time as the airline is dependent on airport employees to manoeuvre the bridge to/from the plane. I’ve landed in Dublin a number of times where we’ve taxied to the air bridge and been told that there would be a 5 miniute wait for some DAA person to operate it.
This is a slightly outdated render of Pier D – the airbridges featured will not be built at this stage , although permission has been granted for them.
You can also make out the two pylons of the cable-stayed, curved walkway which will run through the old executive carpark to the front of the Old Central Terminal Building connecting to Terminal One somewhere in the long corridor (with travelators) between the Garda Immigration booths and the duty-free shop for Pier A.
There’s some archive footage of President de Valera unveiling the Davis statue on the RTE site (http://www.rte.ie/laweb/ll/ll_t06_schedule_g.html – third item down) The piece ends with a group of children singing “A Nation Once Again”.
In the next item, a sound recording of Dev’s speech at the unveiling, Dev says that the Davis statue should, in part, serve as a reminder to Trinity students, scions of the nobility, that they too are a part of the Irish nation.
CIE posted a tender yesterday (June 1, 2006) for the usual “Multi-Disciplinary Design Team for Consultancy Services” in relation to the Tara Street Station project. Seems like they want to revise the plan such that they can do the development without closing the station. So progress may be on the cards – although they are seeking 10 year planning permission, yet again. (We’re now almost 4 years into their previous planning permission period)
Looks like phase one of the Point Village development involves construction of a 3-storey underground carpark for the Point Depot. Should clear the way for development on the existing surface carpark land next year.
Take your handbags outside gentlemen/ladies
Posts regarding CIE/RPA/Luas/Metro bashing/supporting have become excruciatingly boring/repetitive/mind-numbing of late. [delete options as appropriate]
(edited so as not to appear gender biased)
There will be no commerical frontage, just a glass wall revealing open exhibition and circulation space. There will be a new pedestrian entrance to the campus on Pearse Street – positioned at that point in the rendered image where the glass skin breaks. This entrance will become the main entrance for this end of the campus. To the left, looking from the Academy, will be the swimming pool, to the right will be the CRANN research centre.
Indeed, all the discussion on this site and in forums such as Platform 11 and Boards.ie won’t matter a jot unless you engage directly with the RPA by submitting comments during their Consultation Process.
Anyway, back to O’Connell street…..
Here’s how its going to look after the Metro arrives in 2012(??). The proposed lines are shown in this parochially-named RPA newsletter.
For the Love Ulster parade of 2012, all of us Northsiders will have much faster access to the action.
Well it won’t be too long now until the Irish Times clock graces Tara Street and their hacks move in to the glass-skinned building on the corner of Tara and Townsend. They’ve started the fit-out of the building in the last few weeks.
It looks like the O’Connell Street kiosks are firmly back on the agenda now that the paving element of the rejuvenation plan nears completion. DCC have just published a request for tenders for the finance, construction and completion of about 10 kiosks and 9 bus/taxi shelters along ‘Dublin’s historically premier street’.
The RFT states that the kiosks will be based on the design completed by LONDON BLOC ARCHITECTS, images of which are found at the reflectingcity website.
One thing to note about the plan, according to Shane O’Toole in the Sunday Times, is that the piece jutting out into the dock does not yet have permission. The ‘inland navigable waterways’ are not within the DDDA’s remit. They are controlled by Waterways Ireland who still have to give permission for that element of the square.
