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ah sure stick the Frank McDonald LUAS down the thing and sort the whole shaggin place out once and for all. Can I suggest a crazy compromise – Remove the railings and keep the lawn? It worked at the Bank in Deansgrange which was once a popular hang out for foreign students on summer evenings (we were on Killiney beach drinkin Bulmers), now succumbed to LIDL.
Jeez does that pic down College Green/Dame St not just make you wanna build walls on all the traffic approaches and screw every vehicle out of the place. Look at it!
ah yes but the spike is not a “building” is it? And Liberty Hall is far more appropriate for the particular brand of scaremongering these comparisons normally form part of coz it’s just so bloody awful looking these days
eh since it’s been the tallest building in the city for 40 years. What should they say – 19 times the height of a Georgian Terrace, 24 times the height of a suburban Dublin bungalow. It;s the benchmark for the city.
Also why are people conflating this issue with transport. This is a tourist attraction not a transportation mode.
A few recent pics (good ol bank holidays ;)) It’s really beginning to take shape and I wasn’t the only tourist in the area
Wide shot from Ringsend Road Bridge
Ringsend Dodder
O’Connell Gardens
Irony Havelock Square Style
More Havelock Square
When you walk the area you really get a sense of the scale, especially at O’Connell Gardens where it looms over the back gardens. The Dodder Walk to the rear of the East stand is now closed for construction so no photos were possible from here. Coming home to look at the above is a bit of a let down, First hand experience is essential
While the merits of this development are open to debate and many still regard the IGB as a better site, as the inspector did, this is still one of the biggest construction projects in the State and one of the few to have the Wow factor – it really is a grand project and one which despite the arguments has managed to take an historic site and reuse it as it has been done for longer than any other stadium on the planet – ie rugby. And as a soccer fan i’ll be greatly greatly relieved to go here again instead of Croker.
Stay tuned for the Christmas update!
So would i be ridiculously naive to ask how the removal of the existing illegal ads is going?
Have any gone?
Will any go?
Are we pissing into the wind, sheltered only by advertising panels?saw one on Amiens street yesterday and the most disturbing aspect was that as I drove up to it, the sheer size of it fooled me into thinking I was looking at the side of a building (kinda how Smithfield Resi’s first pic might give that impression). It wasn’t til I got closer that I realised that the monstrosity was a stand alone metropole on a footpath. Unbelievable!
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Oh come on ctesiphon! Its a ridiculous choice for such a low order use. And what does it say for all the other grand plans on OC Street if such a promient site cant attract a major retailer.
Oh I dunno. All I’d be concerned with if LIDL set up here would be the treatment of the building fabric, interior and exterior. I reckon their CEO would slightly disagree on what comprises a “major retailer”
There’s also not a whole lot of residential here…where’s the customers. Surely somewhere on Camden Street would be better, or Talbot Street.
how about the 15,000 penny pinchers across the road? It would also facilitate a lot of office workers in the area like any city centre Tesco Express or supermarket does
Pure daft if you ask me but I dont really give the store much credence.
do you mean LIDL in general or this site?
One things is for sure though Westmoreland Street – lower Grafton Street is heading rapidly down hill. Westmoreland Street in particular is now looking like pre-IAP O’Connell Street – fast food, newsagents, amusement arcade and vacant shops (three large ones at that). The public domain is a mess and it is dominated by traffic. Its a crying shame.
very very true. However I wouldn’t despair. Nothing major can realistically happen pre Luas and Metro. It does have the air of uncertainty, almost condemned to a decade of disruption and total flux, about it. Give it time. The rearrangment of traffic at this location will have a massive impact.
yeh and it’s always the lift shafts that have the major impact. When Dubliners see 32 storeys of them rise up there’ll be a lot of “jaysuses” audible around there
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cgcsb, nothing would surprise me. The developer of Beacon South in Sandyford has jacked it in and stuck a tarpolin over the front of it
and they;re all advertising water conservation. How about conserving our fucking public space you shower of ballbags!
There’s actually 2 of these outside the Bleedin Horse, the one shown above plus another outside the Bookies opposite.
That Dorset st one should fall victim to Toothy McSawsign as I showed earlier. It’s totally and utterly fucking dangerous. Great work smithfieldresi
the fucking traffic lights are blocked – how dumb does one have to be to allow this?
eh Bertie is his local Councillor? TD Harry, he’s a TD. Anyway if his face is on it it will have to be supported by a very very brass neck
bikes won’t arrive til the Spring. In a seemingly sensible move, kinda, they are holding off launching them in the autumn or winter. The question of why not Spring 08 before the bloody ads came in, although a valid question, is presumably answerable with a barrage of guff from officialdom
is there a case for “enforcement by the people” here? Is it our civic duty to take a hatchet, petrol and one of these guys to these pieces of urban vandalism?
Frank McDonald hasn’t generally got a clue on these issues., He decided in 2001 he didn’t like Metro and nothing will change that view – the view which said we must demolish west Dublin in order to make it viable. His scaremongering of a Metro/Iinterconnector either/or scenario is unhelpful as well . One needs the other in order to be fully effective. And SSG or “Martin Cullens Grand Central” will be part of the I/C line in any case. He needs to get out of Temple Bar more and quit dreaming of cappucinos in the sunshine while near silent trams flit by in all directions.
