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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
chewyParticipantyeah 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?
chewyParticipanti 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
chewyParticipantso is it rusting or not?
to a layman how was it supposed to clean itself?
chewyParticipantwhat yerman have to say for himself interested:)
chewyParticipantam 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.?
June 10, 2004 at 2:03 pm in reply to: Which Irish political party do you trust most with the built environment? #743547chewyParticipantdelievering 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
chewyParticipantperhaps 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.htmlWhy 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
chewyParticipantbottom of smithfield market?
nowhere
chewyParticipantso 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
chewyParticipantwell 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?
chewyParticipanti presume its outside the gpo spire area is it, im not walking anywhere near that area now at all….
chewyParticipantso 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
chewyParticipantas i said before those stall are awful, nothing but advertising blocks!
they should have been far more see through
chewyParticipantdoes 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
chewyParticipanti 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?
chewyParticipantand 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
chewyParticipanti noticed it the other day do they have the whole building (andthe little houe beside it) internal pic woud be nice
chewyParticipantdid 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?
chewyParticipantthats 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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