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Lovely old atmospheric pic from Polo’s website (http://www.photopol.com)
Haven’t gotten around to writing something about its proposed replacement, or maybe its that it saps any will to respond right out of me.
Jack of all trades, master of none.
Any word of the outcome of this meeting?
I visited a few of the Fado bars in the US and they were very well done a la the Porterhouse fit out. what killed this off was not the lack of design but the equity stake that Diageo wanted for funding the fit outs in a market where getting the buildings themselves was the hard part. There will always be a market for Irish pubs and refitting existing ones but I very much doubt the scale of the mid 1990’s in Europe/US or the early 2000’s in Asia will ever be repeated again.
If in a far flung place and you wanted to catch the rugby they were a godsend; hopefully a rump will survive 🙁
You have my sympathy this sounds like it may have been a right stitch up.
I agree with a lot of the posters that the solution may be more physical intervention i.e. getting fire regulation compliance sorted rather than worrying about retrospective planning consent which if the envelope of the building is unaltered the planners could be in a position to take a view in the context of all the circumstances; particularly in respect of your role prior to handover.
The only issue I wish to add is to be very careful before taking action; get an experian credit report on the parties involved; the final straw would be to have to pay to resolve fire regs issues and a corrective planning application and then win a court case only to find that the entity you enforce against has protection of the insolvency acts to avoid paying your costs.
On the positive getting a chippie to do a nixer to install fire doors etc at the right price may prove a lot easier. 😮
yeah must be, pretty similar to early renders on libeskind’s site. Turning out to be a pretty decent scheme overall !
It is a question of priorities in a time of scarce resources; the opportunity cost is simply too high when it is benchmarked against other transport investments.
@KerryBog2 wrote:
The SPV is no big deal, it is just another shell layer in the structure. What scares me is that we are again delaying the launch of NAMA and the unclarity remains as murky as months ago.
“urban and land planning”, and “social housing and community development” are just two of the fourteen sectors from which NAMA board applicants should have experience.
I ‘ll use Gunter’s phrase – ‘this is more smoke and mirrors’ – minds already are decided and “the right people” already chosen. It is just a way for the politicos being able to say “I was fair and open on the manner in which the NAMA appointments were made.”
K
KB as you may have observed I’ve always taken a sunnier view than that but if you are right it will be a missed opportunity that will not present itself again on this scale. A strong NAMA will require a multi-disciplinary approach that represents all areas of the built environment and investment community. Clearly the buyers and lessee’s will have all of the power for the foreseable future; to think that Zoe type apartments or Georges Dock type commercial architecture will hack it going forward would be a huge miscalculation.
If the product is better then the land price will form a much smaller percentage of the price enabling NAMA to acheive better returns if prices rise. The future will be much smaller projects which will only acheive profitability if they are of a sufficient quality; if the main property player is run by exclusively by bond fund managers and bankers then NAMA will come to a very bad end.
interior pretty far along … (from the Irish Times)
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1105/1224258088629.html
@IT, Frank McDonald wrote:
It is flanked by an office block with the most beautiful façade in Dublin (by Duffy Mitchell O’Donoghue) and an unfinished hotel developed by Terry Devey. Its cheap-looking chequerboard pattern is a travesty of Portuguese architect Manuel Aires Mateus’ original idea that it would look as if hewn from a single block of stone.
Spot on, Frank !
@gunter wrote:
Devin might take note of the existence of twin gabled houses in the mix.
Touché ! ( not that its any of my business 😀 )
@Bago & ihateawake wrote:
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Originally Posted by ihateawake
… this area should be more interesting than smithfield.designed by STW….
ah don’t worry, STW have excelled themselves this time.
@What wrote:
i swear its irelands only choice,
throw up your hands and raise your voice,MONORAIL!!
MONORAIL!!
MMMOOONNNOOORRRAAAIIIL!Casinos are a great money spinner no question but you have to say there are two types of Casino the first is City destination such as Las Vegas or Maccau which attract large numbers of high spending tourists who want to play the part of high flyer for the weekend or few days longer taking in caberet shows etc. These locations need time and more critically thrive on agglomerative economics which would be absent from this suggestion.
The second type of Casino is the one that locates in a City Centre and serves local demand or that of people visiting the City for other reasons. They do not attract people who otherwise would not have been in the City. They are ideally suited to development of a high end leisure district and attract investments in aspirational restaurants, night clubs and designer fashion stores.
If a Casino industry is to work it either needs to be of a local scale i.e beside a major racecourse with a number of existing Group 1 races such as the Curragh or Leopardstown or it needs to be part of a Tourism Ireland plan to over time deliver aggolomeration economies that cross pollenate.
With the involvement of local politician Michael Lowrey it really does take on a very surreal twist; I don’t think you could have made this one up; a few million square feet of high end leisure at Two Mile Boris in Tipperary.
I think everyone heading West had their chosen Jacquesess depending on where they went be it Moate or Longford. One of the more recent public conveniences to go was Oxford Circus which is being relocated a few streets away to New Cavendish Street; what makes it interesting is that unlike robojax this is major project with a committee of stakeholders overseeing design, mix of facilities it will also be a visitor centre for the local business improvement district and a cafe to get a rental stream to ensure the funds are there to maintain it going forward. Further details will be released early 2010 but the days of single function Jaquesess appear gone apart from portaloos at concerts!!
@GrahamH wrote:
The main body of the house in darkness, the column uplighters extinguished, random and ineffective floods directed either side of the front door, grubby sodium bulbs in the elegant Edwardian lamp standards – one of them blown – and nasty flooded hotspots to the wings. What a shambles! Indeed, the whole scene would look better if the floods were just turned off, with glimmers of light from the windows and behind the colonnades. This infuriating mess has been allowed continue for years now – does anybody in control open their eyes anymore?
Dreadful alright, though the column uplighters installed to the Leinster House facade itself a few years back are suitably modest, and do quite a nice job (whenever they turn the feckin things on). What is the point in paying for these things, for it then to be left idle, they finally commission a long overdue lighting scheme and then leave the damn thing off, ah but sure its only the national parliament 😡
If I recall, i think the flag pole is also nicely uplit which is a nice touch, though shame about the postage stamp sized tri-color that seems to be the state standard. Superquinn have the right idea 😉
@Pot Noodle wrote:
I think there are Vestive Interest on here
Like this?
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article2043330.ece
So the original court layout seems to radiate around a circular lawn, with typical outlying pebble perimeter broken by wedge shaped, path forming, lawn segments.
Whatever about the missing built accoutrements, there is no excuse for the state of the courtyard & no reason why it cannot be reinstated. What is the justification for smearing the entire space with tar macadam, for the sake of 20+ parking spaces ?
Railing off the library & museum seriously compromises the courtyard further, not to mention the buildings themselves. The railings to the Kildare street are probably inevitable but is there no alternative to such a crude subdivision internally?
Its a shame Leinster House itself never got its portico, it is something of a poor relation given the detail of its flanking arms… thanks for pics Graham.
You would think in the current climate that there would be an absolute prohibition on public funds being wasted on non-university training. Taking seminar (i)
run by DIT there is no charge and the event had the benefit of 15 presentations from respected academics.
http://update.dit.ie/02-03-09/docs/RPL%20Seminar%20Invitation%2012%20March%20DIT.doc
I wonder what Colm McCarthy would think of bombarded local authorities having the ability to dole out courses in holiday zones where it takes half a day in each direction to just get there?
