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It looks like it may be wooden clad, its certainly not going to be brick clad.
Its very unusual in it has hardly any windows.
Here is a camera phone photo from the south side pavement. Not great quality but you can see the wooden purlins for the cladding and the lack of windows.
Maybe they are going to grow mushrooms in it 😉
I don’t follow – is there a building actually going up in St Stephens Green Park ( the green square area in the centre)? Surely not ?
If you look carefully at the image Paul linked to you’ll see (C) Arup Sport on the side of the stadium where the stadium name might be. Very cute.
There is still no official mention as to where Ireland will play their games if this goes ahead. I presume they are hoping Croke Park doors will eventually open up! That will be historic day, the first foreign sport played in Croke Park. It will be a sell out no matter who we are playing?
It’s a definite improvement. How long will translucent roof last I wonder.
Don’t think there’s any room for expansion at the ends.
I know it wouldn’t be easy but maybe sometime in the future when our public transport system is the envy of the rest of the world and cars are banished from the city centre it might happen.
… I really should get that coffee!! 😉
I’m just thinking of the long game. But I agree with Diaspora and others Dame St Westmoreland St should be first on the list. Just imagine College Green if it was traffic free it would be fantastic. Imagine sitting there having a coffee surrounded by Bank of Ireland, Trinity, etc it would be cool.
At the moment it’s so difficult to get from Grafton St to O’Connell St/Henry St by foot. The pavements are just too small for the footfall and it’s off-putting battling with others on this route. Pedestrianise this route and we’d have an amazing city centre area that is actually enjoyable to walk around in.
I wonder could the Port Tunnel remove some much traffic that the south facing north quay could be reclaimed and pedestrianised, making the south quay two way.
Think I should get a coffee and stop day dreaming.
JJ,
I thought it may be a retaining wall of some sort but the difference in levels could have been sorted out or use steps instead.
Any idea why the Harbour Master insisted on the wall? What’s it function?
Going back to JJ’s photo, below, its a shame they built the concrete wall on the left. Surely keeping this area open would have been better. Dublin has little open spaces as it is.
Rory W – Real cobbles behind the Four Courts so its not a south side bias. Mind you about 85% of the Luas is on the south side so you could call that south side bias 😉
Well FAS used to run a student summer scheme that was basically dole for community work. Companies could also apply for these students too. I remember spending a summer clearing out an over grown river in my local town!
I’m not sure if its still running as the economy got better there were better paid things to do with your summer.
