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I’m really wishing that the tower goes ahead, Is it still above ground level? Surely this stall in construction costs the developer money? With all the money that’s been spent on it already on planning, publicity and enabaling works, It’d probably be more expensive to get rid of the foundation than to build it, get it over and done with and start making some money back with the sale of apartments and office rent etc. They could even hold on to the apartments and sell them when market conditions improve.
The Watch Tower, the few new buildings in Grand Canal Dock and the Tara Street thing are pretty much our last chances to not be made a show of by our neighbours to the north. I hope the Dublin projects will not dissapear into obscurity like the U2 tower did.
cool. i thought I saw someone post a comment on another thread saying they saw te foundations being taken apart. Shortly after the construction was temporarily stalled. Is construction resumed? glad to hear that it’s going ahead.:)
wow great pics. I especially like the last one. Really interesting. But why put up new pictures of the tower if they’ve cancelled it’s construction?
This is great news especially for the Building industry. The bravery of going ahead with this development will no doubt encourage the Carlton Site to go ahead.
There is a cheaper solution for line BX, If the line went underground at Stephen’s green and share the tunnel with the Metro upto a point under O’Connell ST., where it would veer east and emerge at the start of Dominick st. Continue up Dominick st and cross over Constitution Hill via a bridge and onto the Broadstone railway alinement and out to Finglas. Everyone’s happy, Dublin Bus, DIT and suburban residents associations
@aj wrote:
its anglo irish banks new HQ, not AIBs Both BOI and AIB are planning on conslidating there back offices on one site. Given the number of permises both are currently in this will require 2 big buildings probably high rise
Super. Lets hope they actually get to build something
@johnny21 wrote:
Good photos. ihateawake the building is liam carrolls development. AIB HQ. More renders on architects website. http://www.totarch.ie
Do you mean the building in the picture is AIB? if so, why does it say Anglo Irish Bank on the front? Is the building behind it Block G?
I’m happy somethings being built to the left of the point but really only 7 storeys. 🙁 is it not time to break the monotony of the 7-10 story blocks along the North Quays? maybe something a little bit taller. And it’s so far from the Historic core of the city, there’s no way An Taisce could reasonably object
spoil_sport really lives up to his name. And say what you will about the building but a few posts up, you said you can’t take me seriously for liking this building. I find that very rude and snobish, and I believe I’m owed an apology.
Ikea also has to provide a bus service to Ballymun. So you think there should be no city center shopping centers? why? So Dublin should just be for work, no recreational facilities, that’s a very car dependant americanised point of view
is the new theatre starting to take shape? does anyone have construction pics? pictures from google earth and microsoft earth appear to be months if not years old.
@Devin wrote:
This early ‘80s map shows the network of streets & lanes that was eliminated for the Ilac Centre, in red.
We’re all talk these days in planning of ‘breaking down large impermeable city blocks and integrating them into the urban fabric’, but the impermeability of the Ilac block (after shopping hours) was further increased just last year with elimination the L-shaped route between Henry Street and Moore Street by Dunnes building over the west end of Sampson’s Lane, in blue above.
I don’t think anyone would’ve walked down Sampsons lane after shopping hours. It was a narrow dark alleyway full of dumpsters.
@alonso wrote:
only 11 bus routes on O connell Street!
when was henry street pedestrianised? I don’t think i recall traffic on it in my lifetimeanyway city centre malls really are a silly silly concept. I wonder if you could accommodate the same retail floorspace and retain that urban grain?
I don’t recall traffic either but i do recall a time when there was tarmac on the street and a sidewalk which was quiet dangerous as you can’t see where the sidewalk begins on busy shoppig days when there are hundreds of people there. They are not a silly concept they help fight global warming and help prevent urban sprawl. If there were no shopping centers in town, there would be no people there at weekends they’d all be stuck in traffic jams in their cars on the fifth ring road going to suburban shopping center number 937
One Canada Square, the tallest building in the UK and the sixth Tallest building in Europe is 50 storeys tall.
Then surely a 40 story tower can be considerd a skyscraper by international standards. It’s no Burj Dubai (I’m aware that Dublin and Dubai have a simillar population) but for our first skyscraper it’s not badI believe when the story first appeared on headlines, the construction was aimed to begin in September. Also the store was supposed to move in September but that has probably been delayed now. But Arnotts are hopeful that construction will begin “before the end of 2008”
a map of the proposed new shopping centers scroll down a little:
http://dublinstreams.blogspot.com/2008/04/new-oconnell-street-development.html
