Consistency

I am amazed at the consistency, and lack of it, on this topic. Not one dissenting voice among the lot of you.
When Sir John Rogersons Quay was being redeveloped DCC slapped a preservation order on the ugly chimney and insisted the development be designed around it. Why did they not adopt the same approach when setting out to redevelop O.C.St. and start with the trees and design around them. A formal OTT design is not really fitting for OCSt. Is it beyond the capability of Irish Architects to come up with a design that incorporated the existing trees? By the way Birdwatch Ireland did protest against the cutting down of the trees but what’s the opinion of bird enthusiast v our esteemed architects! Ever ask yourselves why you are always right and the public wrong. Remember ESB’s head office, DCC’s record on Wood Quay. OK they get things right a lot of the time, boardwalk, millennium bridge and others, but this time they are wrong and the trees should have been kept.