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@Devin wrote:
Hopefully if the Metro is being axed (music to my ears) the Luas BX link can go ahead straight away.
nah – all the disruption with fuck all of the benefits?
It terminates right at the watchtower
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http://www.rpa.ie/upload/documents/Line%20C1.jpg@Shane M wrote:
I think that the new lansdowne road stadium looks fantastic……but…….It just doesnt seem to fit or look right where its going to be…….If it was thought out properly you would think that the national stadium of Ireland would be located in the centre of ireland
rather than within walking distance of the focus of the national transport network and the heart of the only large population centre on the island?
love that second image. Sure aren’t tourists always goin on about them cool lights that whizz along the street like some luminous eels at that junction. That’s exactly what the street would look like with the proposal in place.
@gunter wrote:
You think this is in the Phoenix Park, but you have no idea what building!
Is that what you’re saying?
I wouldn’t like you to go to too much trouble . . . so I’ll tell you it’s not in the Phoenix Park.
:cool:Yeh I’m not good at this thread really:( is it near a bus stop:)
pah. Back to an evening in mixing Euro 2008 and the Lisbon post mortem
Given the day that’s in it (another Irish free tournament begins while the eggchasers are beaten down under) I did the unprecedented thing and took the bike out at the weekend and headed round the corner to get a few pics of the work in progress down Dodder Way. They coulda been better but it’s tough enough to get an angle – perhaps a more climbing taller type local archiseeker might have another go as it develops:
From the Dodder Walk
looming over the now famous O’Connell Gardens
The West Stand from Havelock Square
Down Lansdowne Lane
The podium and public area over the DART with the tiers of the West Stand behind
Just HOW close is that to the road? The South Stand onto Lansdowne Road
The East Stand rising up
hold me, build me, diss me, kill me?
Stuck in a moment that you can’t get out of
Bad
Sometimes you can’t build it on your own
Who’s gonna build your big tower
I Will Fosterbah
Why couldn’t it have been a Metallica tower
the only place i can think of is to the south/just inisde the Royal Canal near Brrombridge station in the Cabra area. otherwise no idea
I wonder if they’ll resurrect their classic old advertising slogan:
“Pick your ring in comfort”
Probably not.
@notjim wrote:
i haven’t really made up my mind on this; but it is always worrying when the best arguement in favour of a proposal is that it was very delayed.
🙂 it is worrying, especially if that’s how DCC planners feel. tbh I’d be inclined to be in favour of most of the development bar the silly 12 storey folly. Hopefullyu though the planning authority by which I mean ABP will sort these elements out
@johnfp wrote:
It is noticeable you couldn’t make reference to one single development of note on the street since this thread began and it is probable that nothing worthwhile will occur for donkeys years because DCC, ABP and Taisce will see to that.
ah yes the hackneyed cry of the emigrant railing against the mother island. :rolleyes: Here just for a laugh, compare O’Connell street of 2008 to O Connell Street of 1988 even 98. You may have sort of agreed with me but you then (with all the weight and wisdom your 26 posts have given you) slagged off this thread which comprises the most thought ever put into our nation’s main thoroughfare in the virtual and real world. Play the ball not the man.
@johnfp wrote:
I dont blame Alonso for his frustration. It just seems that ANYTHING involving an element of creativity gets automatically shot down on this forum. I mean, look at this particular thread on O Connell Steet, 120 odd pages of pure bullshit. I mean , what development of any worthwhile significance has occurred on the street over the last few years? SFA in my opinion. Living in the UK, I’m sick to the back teeth of people coming back from a Dublin weekend trip asking me whats all the fuss about ? Let me tell you, Dublin, and O Connell Street in particular is perceived as a kip. Ok this proposal might have certain elements to it that wont appeal to everyone, but its refreshing in my view. Bring it on, and so the Arnotts development, and so the GPO, Ambassador , and the rest. It cant be any worse than it is now, it will give the city/ country a focal point and maybe, just maybe ,move us in to the 21st century. Not everybody views the world through Architects eyes.
Fair play to Alonso !This thread is not “bullshit” and if the Brits hate O C St and Dublin they can stay where they are. Which they don’t. Because that statement is a lie.
I’d like to respectfully refuse your support for anything I say.
Didn’t realise discussing urban development was a course in expletives. It is allowed to have a different opinion, y’know. Why not just knock all the ‘old’ buildings in the way and go for a bright new 21st century vision? Grand Canal Square, anyone? O’CSt upper has not been developd because of the overweening greed of the capitalists who, apparently, run the show.
johnglas, apologies for offending. I was pointing out the hypocrisy of screaming for public space and then tearing apart the first proposal for some in decades.
