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  • in reply to: Macken St Bridge – Santiago Calatrava #744329
    chewy
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    i’ve realised what makes someone really funny is not telling lots of original jokes or quips but telling the same joke to many different people

    the same goes for these bridges…

    i was very confused when my illustrations teacher in college told you find a stlye and stick with it, you don’t come up with a appropriate style for each project…

    there all nice bridges but as you pointed out he said oh yes harp that’ll sell it to the irish…

    but at the same time i don’t like the bridges at all its like we doing some urban regenreation like get catrava in.. now we have the same bridge in many different cities same goes for making oconnell street look european

    in reply to: Connolly Station Canopy #744270
    chewy
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    yeah i noticed that too, im not sure if they are taking it all down, although i fear they might do

    so far only the scummy corrugated plastic and and roof covering, part were gone on yes and the cut wood sidng out perhaps they are only replacing that crummy plastic and the tile roof which was in need of repair?

    in reply to: O’ Connell Street, Dublin #728431
    chewy
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    i thought that talbot street had its period of renewal a couple of years ago?

    but ive noticed on many streets if you look up, which ya rarely do, there many nicely ornate builfings with all their paint peeling off?

    like that shop whats it called the one with the demin and leather nad the blue building above it and then the grey building across the road above the alcove

    in reply to: The Spike #722366
    chewy
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    so is it rusting or not?

    to a layman how was it supposed to clean itself?

    in reply to: Event: Leon Krier on Urbanism #742958
    chewy
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    what yerman have to say for himself interested:)

    in reply to: modern/postmodern #743578
    chewy
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    am right in saying that shitty’s 80 block is what is classed and thougth of as “modern”… yeah its that building, what there’s civil servants in there ain’t there.. and you’ll recognise the other building as the new one near tara street..postmodern.?

    chewy
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    delievering for dublin bout 20 years over due mateinfact when it comes to longer term projects or even single buldings would be not right to say that not one party can soley claim to have delievered them… and by doing so shows politicing

    in reply to: O’ Connell Street, Dublin #728386
    chewy
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    perhaps this is what the council are doing with o’connell street…
    re all one colour paths and road… and if it is i’d be dead impressed….

    “Woonerf” – Anarchy the Key to Safe Streets?
    http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/000765.html

    Why don’t we do it in the road?
    A new school of traffic design says we should get rid of stop signs and red lights and let cars, bikes and people mingle together. It sounds insane, but it works.

    http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/05/20/traffic_design/index_np.html

    the 20mph thing is interesting

    someone was saying theres going to less traffic on o’connell street i guess thats true

    in reply to: Bridges & Boardwalks #734329
    chewy
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    bottom of smithfield market?

    nowhere

    in reply to: Bridges & Boardwalks #734326
    chewy
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    so says the architect in f mcd article a few pages back…

    hmm nice metaphor but anyone seen any other pictures of the things open ?

    the one on lisney ain’t too clear… or promising

    couldnt find Mr Dave Richards, of Gilroy McMahon architects website then have gilroymcmahon.ie

    but it doesn’t exist

    and of course these things will be closed down atleast half the time so it be if he considered that

    in reply to: O’ Connell Street, Dublin #728384
    chewy
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    well im not really going to go never corss the street there but i was enjoying slating the scheme:)

    story is generally true though ain’t it…

    and an inappropriate material was used?

    in reply to: O’ Connell Street, Dublin #728381
    chewy
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    i presume its outside the gpo spire area is it, im not walking anywhere near that area now at all….

    in reply to: hugh lane #743293
    chewy
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    so the hugh lane extension is too the right as you look at it in teh old ballroom…

    what the deal with the buildings on left the school etc they’ve been empty for years are they being incorporated into the museum too

    in reply to: Bridges & Boardwalks #734315
    chewy
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    as i said before those stall are awful, nothing but advertising blocks!

    they should have been far more see through

    in reply to: Shop designers #743093
    chewy
    Participant

    does anyone seen a photo of 34 lennox street from like 50 years ago or something …. its one of the 2 story buildings with old style shops fronts… or is there a “old shopfront book”

    or similar shop front… its like ye olde tobaccanist shop or something like that, got lots of wooden molding on it, has small square windows…. etc

    in reply to: proposed changes to stephen’s green #742881
    chewy
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    i bet if its gets pedestrianised they’ll be a ocarrols irish gift store put on it

    are you suggesting the sunday tribune got the story from hear.. or did they quote the site without credit?

    in reply to: O’ Connell Street, Dublin #728368
    chewy
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    and not cos of what they saw…

    the refurbishment of o’connell street reminds of changing rooms… or those even shorter programmes on in the morning where they simply repaint the room and different colour and then the owner comes in and she says oh you made the place so much _better_ …

    painting it a different colour doens’t nessecarily improve it…

    ie you got square of front of the gpo but it empty and useless

    and have you been reading all those things singing the praises of the spire in the papers i still think its sh**e

    in reply to: Renaissance Style Facade, 40 Kevin St. Lr. #742940
    chewy
    Participant

    i noticed it the other day do they have the whole building (andthe little houe beside it) internal pic woud be nice

    in reply to: O’ Connell Street, Dublin #728313
    chewy
    Participant

    did any of read that piece in the indo, i can’t remember the name but a guy who has a regualr column wrote about how he went to the departmnet of education off eh malborough street it is, in where those nice neo-classical? buildings are and sat down in a seating area to have his lunch and was told by an employee, not a security man of porter he couldn’t eat his lunch their….

    he said they don’t put seats cos your supposed to be shopping not sitting but that’s not entirely true but i often find it hard to find somewhere to sit for ten minutes to read newspaper or have my lunch … in the city centre… i usually go to the central bank or the boardwalk which is a great for that….

    but especially along o connell street theres nowhere really but to sit up on the daniel o connell statue..

    and how about somewhere sheltered to sit if its raining or windy?

    what was that someone was saying about parking motobikes on the median where should one park your motobike?

    in reply to: O’ Connell Street, Dublin #728299
    chewy
    Participant

    thats another thing i noticed, did anyone else? because of the way the plaza is all dark-grey block it is very difficult to know when to stop and pause before crossing the road, the idea is nice but in practice its disarming

    in recent times i tried make a conscious effort not to jay walk but you do find yourself walking across the road not cos the lights has turned green but cos a number of people around have started to cross sheep like

    btw the cobble-like tram line stretches look nice

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