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@Rory W wrote:
I see they have a section for the ‘Integrated Ticketing System’ and are referring to it as ITS – Pity they didn’t include ‘The’ into the acronym as it would sum up those responsible for implementation to a tee
Also, ITS is an acronym already in use in traffic management- Intelligent Transport Systems.
Roll on the confusion…
This one, I suspect: https://archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?t=2408
You forgot the giant floating hamburger over the pediment- this is Foster, remember.
Of all the rubbish quoted in that article, perhaps the worst bit is the contention that because the interior isn’t ‘original’ it isn’t worth saving. There are dozens of people in the OPW and DEHLG (wasn’t that Noel Ahern’s last post, for Housing?) with sufficient knowledge to inform the junior minister that such an approach went out with red braces and side-lace shoes. I mean, facadism? It’s been thouroughly discredited as a conservation philosophy by now, right?
What do you mean ‘The Clarence Hotel’?
@GrahamH wrote:
Hmmm – all these development lifestyle blurbs just blur into one. Not Altro Vetro is is? Or the RHK?
Neither, I’m afraid, but you’re geographically close with one of your guesses. 🙂
I know what you mean about the lifestyle blurbs – sure isn’t ‘The spirit of gracious living’ available just around the corner from me! – but I’ve never seen a billboard as brutally honest as the one above. 😉
Yours isn’t near Trinity Street / St Andrew Street is it, Graham? I keep meaning to check. It definitely rings a bell with me too.
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This one should be pretty easy, I’d imagine. There has been a little creative framing, but it is otherwise undoctored:
(I thought I should start my next 1000 posts on a high note. :))
I was at the Konono No.1 show on Saturday night and the Glenn Branca one on Sunday afternoon.
I agree with notjim- the square wasn’t meant for this sort of event. I’ve expressed reservations before about the usability of the square. It’s been one of my main concerns with the Schwartz design since the beginning. There’s just too much clutter, yet at the same time it’s too exposed as a performance space. No doubt this will change when the Libeskind theatre is finished, but sufficiently? I have my doubts, but we’ll see.
The really disappointing/annoying thing about the weekend was the excessive use of crash barriers everywhere, which added to the clutter without having any discernible benefits. It just wasn’t the sort of crowd that needed herding. I can only presume they were required by some insurance policy clause or other. Whatever about the need to restrict access to the ticket-holder area, there was no need to seal off access to the edge of the water and the seats. The quay is open year round, with no apparent problems, so why the need to do it for a concert? Apart from anything else, for many people attending it was their first time seeing the new works, and they wanted to walk out to the end of the red carpet and have a closer look at the magic wands, but couldn’t. Though given the damage that was done to the red poles inside the ticket-holder area, as noted by notjim, maybe the crash barriers were there to protect the poles from other crash barriers?
While there I did a highly scientific survey among my friends (mostly non-specialists, just regular citizens), asking what they thought of the place, and all but one said they didn’t like it. Opinions ranged from ‘Like a playground in a 1980s housing scheme in Barcelona’ (from someone who used to live in Barcelona) to the simple ‘cheap and tacky- I wonder how it will age?’ Some people did like the red poles, but the green lights fared less well. The planting was generally much liked.
One last thing- apparently they had to use an inflatable stage, as seen in the Flickr pics posted above, because the square has a limited load capacity due to the car park below. A bigger crowd, which would have created a better atmosphere, might also have been too much weight.
@PTB wrote:
Did you get paid for saying that?
Nope, but I presume somebody got paid to make me think it. 😉
@PTB wrote:
there was school records going back to the 1900s, loads of old classics books, an ancient, broken typewriter, a funny hat, pigeon shit, the philosopher’s stone, CIA records proving that the CIA killed J.F.Kennedy, Queen Victoria’s head in a jar, a partially buried chest brimming with jewels and gold, guarded by a cobweb-matted pirate skeleton.
But no Holy Grail? The hunt goes on…
@Sloan wrote:
An overview below of the decisions issued by Dublin City on Decaux applications. There has been no instance of refusal of permission. The grants of permission were issued within a window spanning a couple of days.
If you look at the detail of some of the applications (I’ve seen the documentation for some but not all) you’ll see that the case officer recommended refusal but was overruled by his superior (is ‘superior’ the right word? :rolleyes:), which might indicate that word came down from on high that this entire scheme was to be facilitated. But the fact that all decisions to grant issued within a couple of days of each other is simply because they were all submitted at the same time and were decided by the statutory decision deadline.
Thanks manifesta. Very informative.
#110 came from the documentation submitted to DCC, so it’s exactly what is proposed. I’m re-posting hutton’s pic from that post for convenience:
It’s possibly a bit misleading in that there is actually sufficient clearance below the sign for pedestrians to pass (as long as you’re less than 6′ 6″, that is). So that’s okay then. :rolleyes:
The smaller signs in Dublin will be like the ‘art nouveau’ sign in your post.
Now I think I’m going to go and get a delicious glass of cool, refreshing Tropicana essentials blackcurrant and forest fruits juice. A sudden urge has inexplicably just come over me…
^^^
When someone from Middle Earth speaks on the topic of underground tunnels, you can be sure it’s the truth! 😉@PTB wrote:
we found a box full of recordings of the school choir from the 30s
Far more interesting than any stubby tunnel, I’d wager.
So it appears that this has been granted by DCC. I haven’t yet seen the details. What are the chaces they amended that stupid ramp off O’Connell Street?
(5170/06 if you’re searching the DCC website.)
Boo hoo.
Oh, wait…
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I noticed on Dame Street today that there must have been one of those cascading planters left over from their insertion in the ‘plaza’ as one has landed at the top of Cow’s Lane. Or maybe it was making a break for freedom…?
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?
@Starch wrote:
what is the libeskind-esque wire mesh structure???
Car park entrance, afaik.
I do like the selection of plants.
@KerryBog2 wrote:
…and at Sneem one called Atlantic Gateway, not within an ass’ roar of the sea, let alone the Atlantic, and built facing a mountain.
@The Urban Forum wrote:
Urban Forum Calls For Review of the National Spatial Strategy
Greater Dublin will soon occupy the same surface area as Los Angeles, but with less than a quarter of its population, the Urban Forum warned today (Tuesday, 13 February 2007). In this context, the Forum is calling on whoever forms the next Government to develop a review of the National Spatial Strategy with the central objective of developing the Atlantic Gateway to counter-balance Dublin.
Looks like the canny folk of the Kingdom are one step ahead of The Planners Up In Dublin yet again. 🙂
(From here: http://www.riai.ie/index.html?id=7219)
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Strange that the ‘surname’ of my road doesn’t feature on the list posted by jackwade – the oh-so-suburban Close – though the first half is present and correct.
