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Driving slower this time i’ve realised it’s not the elegant structure i thought i saw, just the original clock mounted on a monolith type post. still nice though.
@adhoc wrote:
Well it won’t be too long now until the Irish Times clock graces Tara Street
Driving by i couldn’t make it all out but something resembling a plastic covered clock atop a wonderfully ornate arched stand has been erected between the new irish times building and markewicz apartment bloc. looked very interesting, a lovely touch of old world decoration, very parisian i thought,… look at me getting all carried away.
@gunter wrote:
When you see these in the planning office, you’re never quite sure whether the model was damaged in transit , or whether the building is actually crumpled.
This has to be among the saddest trends in architecture. Right so they’ve proven what modern engineering can do, now can they prove they have any design talent.
This must be a piss take, exact same situation as you cross luas lines beside fourcourts beside old motor tax office, completely obscuring sight of pedestrians from traffic and vice versa. unbelievable!
@GrahamH wrote:
Which is more than can be said for the weeping birches on the median – don’t get me started on those yokes again 😉
With all due respect, architects seem obsessed with birch,…. i often think it’s some scandinavian obsession! i fear a future dublin monoculture of birch. There are so many spectacular trees out there yet every development seems to have the ubiquitous birch grove 🙁
@PVC King wrote:
Dunnes on Henry Street is a very pleasant addition to the street
Very interesting yet simple reflective wall beside the elevator inside, reminds of the prague undreground pictures.
@PoxyShamrock wrote:
That picture was taken from City Hall? :confused:
City Hall has been de-centralised.
@deliriousbeat_0 wrote:
Public space makes a city better, period.
It was a public space beforehand, and a hell of a lot more inviting! It baffles me how they could offer that back to the city as a public space… it makes me sicker every time i pass it.
@Paul Clerkin wrote:
design? does that not suggest that theyre selling the site with pp and the tower as designed may not necessarily be built
Hopefully, vile if you ask me.
That bridge will have to be done up at some stage aswell i’d say, it’s gonna look pretty grotty surrounded by all the new buildings.
My current pet hate as i cycle through phoenix park every morning and evening is the seeming complete disregard/lack of understanding/ complete ignorance to the concept of a bicycle path! In the evenings i see more people cycling on the road, it’s just not worth using the perfectly good cyclepath due to the sheer numbers of prams, children, dogs, joggers, rollerbladers, power walkers, groups of pedestrians, fat pedestrians. It’s turning me into a narky f****er i don’t want to be , shouting at everybody i cycle by.:(
The new roadways/laneways connecting the riverside to the canal dock are all super bland to, even down to the trees planted,… birches, i know they’re native and all but they’re just so scandinavian, winter, cold, bleak. There’s no warmth to the place , no joy, no eccentricity, no lushness. Everything seems to be sharp angles and shiny glass, so completely souless.
Doesn’t look like there’s any retail units gonna be opening up down there either apart from the three on the canal dock, just offices and sterile living environments.@Devin wrote:
The STW sketch of the proposal that appeared in the I.T. Prop. Supp. last Thu looked pretty grim I have to say.
A look through a large book of STWs works last week turned out to be a catalogue of all my most unfavourite buildings in Dublin of the last 20 years bar the zoo pavilion!
Ha ha i like these average Dubliners 😉
http://www.tcd.ie/Buildings/images/anpost6.jpg
I like it overall though, i’s great to see some big buildings going up on this street, it all might help link the new Docklands up more with the city. I imagine it’ll inevitably be coming down a few storeys though. 🙁@electrolyte wrote:
Those Poolbeg Towers are mong. Yeah they are like symbols now…but at the end of the day, they’re oversized chimneys…nothing special.
Now that’s something i would like to do, have some kind of shiny onion domes on top of those chimneys or something crazy on top, turn them into giant lolipops, flowers or windmills.
something like this http://www.energy.rochester.edu/at/wien/spittelau.jpg@The Denouncer wrote:
And am I the only one sick of grafitti? Now on the unfinished paint job at Grand Canal Dock there is grafitti that makes no sense whatsoever.
Certainly sick of Irish/Dublin style tagging anyway,it really is so unimaginative, pointless and destructive. If you’ve been to Berlin you can see how it can actually be quite a thing of beauty.
@The Denouncer wrote:
Crazy! But I like it!
Will this have any commercial street level frontage or will it just be a blank curtain glass wall, anyone know?
