Andrew Duffy
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Sorry I can’t help, but there is a similarly evocative Tudor ruin near Durrow in Laois, which might be the “Knocknatrina” mentioned here:
@Sue wrote:
Give the man’s family a chance to bury him before you start deconstructing his character. What the hell happened to the noble Irish tradition of not speaking ill of the dead while their body was above ground?:mad:
Shame
What’s noble about revisionism?
The Alexander Hotel on Fenian Street (by Henry J Lyons, I think) is another fairly pure postmodern building, and very recent too – it opened in 1997.
@phil wrote:
I thought it was finished in 1980. What year was it started in?
1972 or ’73, I think. This has some dates:
http://www.centralbank.ie/data/site/abt_hist.pdf
– Proposed 1967
– No work between summer 1973 and spring 1975
– Completed June 1978
– Officially opened December 1979 (perhaps where the 1980 on this site comes from)@phil wrote:
I have noticed that they are working on it at the moment. Do you know what is being done to it?
I think a new air-conditioning system is being installed.
Central Bank
It is already more than thirty years since the bank was started, and since it was completed in 1978, will soon be more than thirty years since it was completed. It is undergoing a major renovation at the moment.
The Spire!!!
The spire was designed to have a lifespan of over one hundred years.
Gardiner and Abbey streets both have Lower, Middle and Upper sections. Mountjoy Street used to have all three, but I think Upper and Lower are now just called Mountjoy Street.
edited to remove wierdness
Gotcha! No 7 annoyed me enough to look through the Buildings of Ireland section on Dame Street. I was close:
@Graham Hickey wrote:
A monumental pile of an office building (influences of Webb’s Govt Buildings in there!) on Herbert Street, just opposite the Pepper Cannister
I walked into the city along Upper Mount Street today, and was surpised to find a building from 1980s London had been airlifted onto Herbert Street. That kind of postmodern pile is so rare here I had to look it up. It’s a Treasury building (unsurprisingly) and it’s by Arthur Gibney (surprisingly). It was built in 1997, but approved in 1991, which explains the style I suppose.
http://www.treasuryholdings.ie/investment/project_detail.asp?id=76&category=Office&cat=3
http://www.agparchitects.ie/commercial_info.htm
http://www.dublincity.ie/swiftlg/apas/run/WPHAPPDETAIL.DisplayUrl?theApnID=0630/91Yes, the N9/N10 scheme will be motorway standard, despite its not being included in the National Road Needs Survey that predated the National Development Plan. Predicted traffic levels on the road won’t reach even the levels required for an at-grade dual carriageway duting its lifetime.
While the roads that will be built to Cork, Limerick and Galway will be motorway standard and will have 120km/h speed limits if the _local_ coucils decide, the Fermoy bypass in Cork will be classified as a motorway. Also, how far away from the city that’s paying for it does a road have to be for it to be visible through the blinkers? How about Laois and Tipperary, where the M7/M8 scheme will be built? Or is it the fact that the motorway classification are on roads between Dublin and other cities, where the traffic levels warrant them, that irks you?
The Gasworks is already open, although the building within the gasholder frame is still under construction. I guess the road will stay in poor condition for a few years until everything is built; Macken Street is in similar condition.
There is a single armed concrete lamp surviving on Baggot St. Bridge; all the others on Baggot St. seem to have had the arms replaced with metal ones. There are a few simpler single armed ones along South Richmond St, as well.
Please ignore the above advice and have the windows restored. Contrary to the misinformation above, restoration is considerable cheaper than replacement, and will add value to the building. I also strogly advise NOT converting the windows to double-glazed as this will restrict airflow into the building’s structure and will eventually damage it.
@Maskhadov wrote:
Does that look good in real life ??
It’s still shrouded in scaffolding. It certainly is very dominant in the area, visible from a large swathe of the South Circular and Cork Street.
