Andrew Duffy
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Maybe the one just below the big tower. I think it might be this:
http://www.treasuryholdings.ie/development/project_detail.asp?id=123&category=Office&cat=3
A little off topic, but I was on the DART a few days ago and noticed a new office building of about 10 storeys being completed in the Grand Canal Dock area. Although it is a glass box, it looks particularly good – somewhat reminiscent of the much larger glass box that is the HSBC tower in Canary Wharf.
Grade-seperating Newlands Cross is a specific local objective in the South Dublin County Council Development Plan:
http://www.sdcc.ie/index.aspx?pageid=123&deptid=11&dpageid=97Has the application for the tower on Barrow St. been withdrawn? Click on “Decision”:
http://www.dublincity.ie/swiftlg/apas/run/WPHAPPDETAIL.DisplayUrl?theApnID=5752/04
N7 – M50: About the best that could be done given the available land. Three of the four movements involving the N7 outside the M50 are freeflowing; since M50 North – N7 West must yield to trams anyway it uses the existing roundabout.
N4 – M50: Completely freeflowing, with extremely tight loops and righthand merges. This will be interesting.
N3 – M50: Magnificent engineering; all movements involving the N3 outside the M50 are freeflowing; it is again a very large distorted directional-T built over and around the roundabout, and removes the first and only at-grade junction on the N3 outside the M50 (until the dual carriageway ends) to boot. This must cost about €250m.
N2 – M50: Most movements involving the N2 outside the M50 are freeflowing, but the two at-grade crossings are bound to cause problems.
The major interchange proposals, from the top,
M1 – M50: A directional-T built over the existing roundabout. All movements between the M50 and M1 are freeflowing with the roundabout left to cater for movements to and from the N32.
New traffic legislation introduced last year (primarily to introduce km/h speed limits) gives councils the power to place a 120km/h limit on any dual carriageway road, whether motorway or not.
The high quality dual carriageways are generally slightly below current motorway standards – although largely built with a design speed of 120km/h and with entirely grade-seperated junctions there are private accesses to farm land in the form of sharp left turns. While the presence of sharp left turns doesn’t neccessarily preclude a road being a motorway, the requirement to allow agricultural traffic does. Allowing agricultural traffic on the new roads has two advantages – it reduces the amount of it on old single carriageways and thus reduces the temptation to recklessly overtake; and it increases the chance of the road passing planning without objections.Here’s another good document:
http://www.environ.ie/DOEI/doeipub.nsf/0/17407b65c95d10d280256f0f003db979/$FILE/windows.pdf
@Graham Hickey wrote:
I don’t think anyone here was aware of this project until not just after, but quite a long time after the decision was made
Ahem:
My apologies if this has been linked to before:
http://www.westmeathcoco.ie/services/conservation/sashWindows.asp
Did anyone opposed to the demolition of this building contribute at planning or planning appeal stage?
starbucks makes fine coffee
Starbucks sells calorie-laden coffee- and syrup-flavoured milk. The espresso sitting at the bottom of a half litre of warm milk is foul, and made by a trained chimp pressing a button on a super-automatic machine – Starbucks stopped training its baristas to use real espresso machines years ago.
If you want good coffee in Dublin, the best you can hope for is one of the Dunne & Crescenzo owned chains – Bar Italia or La Corte. Even then, it’s pretty mucky.When the new section of
junkie seatingboardwalk was being built there was a gap left in it at about where the bridge would go for a long time. It may have had nothing to do with it, of course.the tourist whiskey shop
… is actually the best-stocked spirits seller in the country, and fairly reasonably priced too. The staff put those in the stuffy Mitchell’s one street over to shame.
Fatima Mansions – although you’d better be quick
St Michaels House, Inchicore…..just a few minutes from the city centre in a charming village location
Ballymun – might be a bit far from a cappuccino though
Darndale……nestling among the soft rolling hills of north county DublinJust for the record, these are all areas you should avoid.
