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just shows how unlived in the city still is. I mean the suburbs can still be quite busy at Christmas
Government Support for S2S Project Announced
A new milestone in the campaign was reached today (12th Nov) when the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern T.D. and the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Mr. Dick Roche T.D. announced their commitment to promote and support the proposal to upgrade and join up various existing sections of promenade and cycleways to form a continuous route around the 22kms seafront of Dublin Bay.
The announcement was made in a press briefing and photocall on the seafront at Clontarf. This is seen as a huge boost to the campaign and follows meetings between members of the group and the Taoiseach and the Minister.
more details on http://www.s2s.ie
@a boyle wrote:
that playground seems like a really nice idea. it is about time that effort was put into making the city a better place to live and raise families, otherwise there will be no way to reverse the suburb mindset of people.
A lot of the suburbs don’t have many playgrounds either. Amazing how there seems to be more golf courses than playgrounds in this country. New to this fatherhood thing so starting to notice things like playgrounds……
stop building all these houses in Ballincollig & CarrAIGALINE that will cut down on all these commuters using the roads! They should all live in high rise apartments in the Docklands.! Yeah, like that’s going to happen!
@GregF wrote:
The O’Conneli Street makeover has come to a standstill. It desperately needs some soft planting like containers of folwers etc… to add some colour to the grey street. it needs some furniture like seating and the kiosks as mentioned. And most of all it need the grubby and tawdry shpfront issue tackled immediately. The tacky cheap look of that travel shop beside the GPO is a daily eyesore,
Containers of Flowers? give us a break please!!!!!!
@Spinal Tap wrote:
Its a pity to lose the indidgenous Cork retailers from our main streets as Dublin could now be Nottingham or Leeds with its “High” street Uk rertailers.We have very little in Cork city to attract tourists and a unique streetscape with local retailers is always something worth having.Roches move must have been on the cards for a long time as their Wilton store is stuck in 1978 !
Personally I think that there are way too many Dunnes Stores around Cork.Asuperquin or a few more M&S would be a nice change.
Very little in Cork, what about the English Market, an absolute gem that Dublin would love to have!!
The local authority should be policing this!
@Devin wrote:
ATHLONE
Some comparison pictures of Athlone from a couple of years ago, and then today. In terms of the older building stock in Irish towns, things are never better when you go back to a place after a few years. There’s always been demolition, deterioration, PVC-ing and bad new buildings.
Macken’s on Dublingate Street (on the Westmeath side of the town) has deteriorated and also has a demolition application pinned to it. This is a pattern: The few remaining ‘untouched’ traditional buildings in our towns or villages often have demolition notices pinned to them.
Across the road from Macken’s, a couple of gentle old buildings have had the nasty PVC and render-stripping makeover, complete with SUV passing by!
Over on the other (Roscommon) side of the town, things are even worse: Sean’s Bar – which claims to be the oldest pub in Ireland – has had historic sash windows replaced with PVC. Well they’re really doing all they can to maintain their sense of antiquity!
Nearby, a curious old building with a four-sided roof has been replaced by …….…… I don’t know what really.
@Micko wrote:
Lex, I was actually hoping that UCC were going to completely renovate the Boole library considering the addition to the side which they are making.
They could at least do something to the outside which to me is just so ugly. New panelling wouldn’t be too expensive and would make the building look so much better, especially considering that its beside Aras Ui Rahilly which looks so much better.
I MUST disagree the Boole is one of the best buildings in UCC and has aged quite well. Maybe the interior could do with a revamp but the exterior is just fine. It’s such a solid building but fits into the quad quite well. I’m sure I’m not alone. The Ui Rahilly building that you refer to is one of the poorer additions to UCC and its cladding that you seem to likw so much is tat. Anyway leave the Boole alone! It’s a Classic!
@kite wrote:
😮 Christ, you would not see the likes of that in the Falls Road, Belfast in the bad days…looks almost as bad as the FF office in Bishopstown, Cork.
Never tried to post a photo before, how is it done?
I will try and post a photo tomorrow if i can figure it out.that old railway line is very peaceful; pity it’s not redeveloped as a rail line though. Might disturb your cycling though!
Thw swing out windows above Carrols are also a delight!
When it comes to signage, the plywood heritage signs are nearly as bad as the plastic signs.
@a boyle wrote:
I saw that yesterday and was furios also ,i tried to find the planning permission on the internet but i ……………… I really like the way this street has developped over the last few years with the combination of sex shops and places to socialise.I feel it’s has a nice bit of atmosphe……………………..
??? Yeah the sex shops add a real touch of class to the street!:confused:
@jdivision wrote:
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looks ridiculous! Pays no respect to the context of the square. Why are these developers so greedy; maximising floor space to the max. I think all those curved roofes are unnecessarily fussy. Would prefer something with cleaner lines. I sense another Frank McDonald versus Owen O Callaghan clash in the Irish Times.
@Graham Hickey wrote:
But really, all smart-arsing aside, it is astonishing how the developers were allowed get away with such monstrous rubbish which one sees the centre in its entirely – it is a series of malls in a giant shed that have been pasted over with signature ‘buildings’ of traditional fluff, all linked together with ‘bridge blocks’ – quite literally brightly painted dolls house architecture with Tegral slates, which fill in the gaps between the pastiche ‘historic buildings’:
I mean what self-respecting architect would have the audacity to install Barbie gates in all of these blocks? They must have put themselves in theme park mode, and treated the whole scheme as a big joke – how else could you hold yourself together?
In all seriousness, is there any difference in the architecture above, and that of this house?
They’re remarkably similar!
To take a breather for a moment and pop inside, the building is made up of two/three double-height malls linked together by rotundas – all smothered in acres of polished stone tiles:
Nothing overly innovative save some LEDs set into the floor at the base of every pier:
The vast orangery building is occupied on the ground floor by little more than a few stands, hence you have to walk a substantial distance to get to the centre proper:
To correct an earlier statement, there is some new public seating in this area in the form of a lavish leather suite of furniture, but this is very limited, with nothing in the main malls or rotundas where people will need to sit.
Overall, the centre is architecturally such a disappointment to the exterior, whilst the interior, beautifully finished, looks nonetheless rather vulgar with the vast acres of stone, and feels wasteful with fans blasting away to heat huge double-height malls – you feel like you’re in some sort of mini ecosphere as garethace has referenced to before.
As a commerical building, it hits all the right spots – the people love the exterior, with the local paper saying ‘…crowds of shoppers all amazed at both the range of shops and the stunning architecture.’ And the project manager saying the style was chosen to reflect the ‘historic buildings of Dundalk’.
Think this sums it up:
People love this kind of stuff. I mean look at the disaster that is the Four Seasons in Balls Bridge; Don’t think it’s affecting its business too much!
@GregF wrote:
Regarding Paddys Day and things Irish, but anyone read the book by Bob Quinn called ”the Atlantean Irish ” which suggest that Christainity come to Ireland with the Coptic Christian monks of Egypt. via the Mediterannean sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The findings and similiarities are uncanny, from humble hermit dwellings, Sean Nos singing, currachs, carvings, aspects of language etc…Even the auld shamrock is known as shamrahk in the arab world. There was a TV programme made about it years ago too. Another facet to an Irish identity. Great stuff!
Anybody esle find references to “Paddy’s Day” annoying or is it just me?
@justnotbothered wrote:
Are you stone crazy? how do you protect wetlands while simultaneously building on them? What about access roads , pipes etc. The article clearly states half the land would have to be reclaimed, leaving it clear they intend the other 50% to come from the Wetlands themselves. Meanwhile, Limerick city proper is literally full of undeveloped sites. I’m all for development, but this would be a disaster for the city, imagine the shame of having a special EU conservation area concreted over? What does this city have against parkland, between trying to sell of Arthur’s Quay, the People’s Park and now this?
I honestly wonder how you could even begin to to consider this project anything other than a disaster for the area.
Here, Here!! This thread is obviously turning into a pro development at all costs thread. Like that other Cork thread here. This is probably the last place that building should happen. A flood plain! Global warming anybody?
