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@fergalr wrote:
Oooooooh! It’s so tacky!
Was an actual sculpture not considered instead? Incidentally, when the Floozie is brought back to, we should start a brutal statue of Dublin tour. There’s a statue of the Virgin Mary by Broadstone as well.
I reckon if you could look under the base of the statue, you’d read “Made in Taiwanâ€!!
Could be used as a decoration on the big Christmas tree in December…
Much prefer the outstretched arms of Larkin down the road than this cheap muck!Jesus……….that objest looks like something you’d purchase in that high quality store (Hector Grey):eek:
@ctesiphon wrote:
Mmmm. Lovely. And the sensitivity with which the square holes for the trees were created is deserving of the highest praise too.
I’m thinking of mounting an assault on the DCC toolshed to steal all the circular saws- who’s with me?
And what about the Lilliputian trees themselves !
DCC couldn’t have found any smaller if they tried; the trees will probably be fully grown in say…150 years :confused:Is there anyone who feels like I do, that the red flooring there lacks any attractive finishing?
The floor of my local Garage looks similar!
Would a glazed surface not have given a little more class?
:rolleyes:@ake wrote:
un be fucking lievable. The sheer ignorance of it!
The architects of ancient Rome would surely turn in their tombs if they saw the progress made in over two millenium by contemporary DCC craftsmen!! 😮
What about global warming and rising sea levels? (I think someone may already have posed this question).
Aren’t these low lying areas precisely the sort of places that should be avoided?@fergalr wrote:
According to the Sunday Times, the M50 is the most congested motorway in the world…
And I think I can remember someone from the AA saying it was the only tolled ring-road in Europe.We don’t do things terribly longsighted in Ireland, do we?
Here in Paris, the ring road “Boulevard Périphérique†is not tolled, it gets gridlocked at rush hours but otherwise moves reasonably okay which is not a bad achievement seeing its proximity to the city centre.
There is however a suburban motorway: â€the A86†that runs in a north-south axis of Paris, again this isn’t a tolled road but it gets really very congested at peak hours, we’re talking about ¾ hour to drive 6km (when there are no accidents or broken down lorries), don’t know how that fairs with the M50.@GrahamH wrote:
Ok – here’s the first of 3. They don’t show very much as the canopy has obviously been taken away:
Graham,
I’m no architect, but maybe you or someone out there in architecture-land can tell me who gives permission for building façades to be painted?
The picture of the beheaded Olympia scaffold’s my perspective on this; the building adjacent to the Olympia with its bare brick looks great whereas the flaking beige paint of the Olympia looks really shoddy, and its not only here, its all over Dublin; bright blue façades, yellow façades along the quays…..@DJM wrote:
Since the cellar collapses of No 7 the pavement & road above had been tarmacked over. As far as I can tell, the kerb was just cast insitu concrete.
Nice Pic DJM?
Unfortunately they’ve made the road look like the sole of that boot Charlie Chaplin eats in “The Gold Rushâ€. Surely there is another way to prevent parking than messing up the street with bollards!
Does anybody know what kind of depths the tunnels will be bored?
I think I read somewhere that the depth at which one can bore depends on the nature of the soil.
In Paris, you only have to take an escalator down one floor at lots of stations to find yourself on the platform whereas in London or Washington DC, stations are usually pretty deep.Most of those bland high rise blocks of flats from the 60’s that one invariably sees being dynamited on evening news bulletins have more class than that heap to go up on the Boland’s site! 🙁
@Bren88 wrote:
Maybe a joint european champ with scotland.
Maybe even a small part in the world cup, together with mayve two countries of the UK.
But what other sporting event could we even think od outside of football???
We had the Ryder cup, as we deserved it too as the K club is a top course. But what other international events could we cater for. Golf, a shared football championship.
Can you think of anything else we could hope to hold, outside of Darts or Poker.Blow Football perhaps!
I don’t think the Scots will be in any rush to get into bed with the Irish for any future sporting bids after the last debacle!😮 That building would be better suited along side the VLT telescopes on the mountains of Chile or with the giant Keck telescope in Hawai!@weehamster wrote:
I think it is time to update this thread with a new entry for the title of Dublin Ugliest Building.
And my nomination is the new Palace Street ‘HQ Office Building’, beside city hall.
The reason why I’m nominating this building, apart from it being very ugly, is the fact that it is brand new. Now Hawkins House is really ugly, but it’s been around a few years now. How is this build going to look in 20 to 30 years time? :rolleyes:
Due to the thread ‘New building beside City Hall’ which has now turned into the discussion how ugly it is, I feel its more fitting to move the subject here.
Surely the Central Bank has to be Dublin’s most visible eye-sore: when I left Ireland in the early 80’s there were girders sticking out from beneath its roof that would have made your average DIY man blush. A Hodge-Podge effort was then made to cover this up in later years with a kind of metal sarcophagus similar to the one that currently covers the reactor in Chernobyl!
That Bunker “for want of a better word†beside Christ Church also figures up there among the most ugliest; in 1984 it already looked the worse for wear and it was then only a couple of years built!
