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dream on – shannon region has been artificially kept alive for years on the back of the taxpayer – why would that change now?
Subconscious… or just plain obvious?!?
Galvin’s report from November and the fact I knew the Mahon Point cinema was linked to the Capitol… join… the… dots…
Must pay more attention
Can you give a few more clues… please??? Location (ball park).
Lexington – you seem to be well up on things at proposal stage – are there any plans for the dreaded Capitol Cinema? It is my fantasy to see that razed. Approaching the city centre from Washington St, that carbuncle is something I’d like to see removed.
“I believe that An Taisce have the respect of the majority in this country”
Sorry Diaspora – I really don’t think that is the case.
Jacobs mill – I think there will be a vertical slice taken out up to the roof where the door is at the moment with glass put in – which will compensate for the tiny windows.
The Water St project is an obvious target for an objection. Based solely on scale. There is nothing NOTHING of heritage value in this area that would be lost as a result of this going ahead – this isn’t historical city core. It’s not situated next to Finbars Cathedral. I am suspicious when I hear An T try to pathetically reason their objections with lofty “classical” descriptions. What drugs are they on? Go down there and actually look around (Fitzwilliam Sq it aint).
The Mannix “building”??? If anyone who’s ever lived in Cork or knows the story behind that – an attempt to rebuild this should be supported. Period.
By objecting to this An T Corcaigh have let the people of Cork know that they are not residents in the real world. Go down to Washington St… seriously…As for shiny and new??? Well which is better – the Cork of today? Derelict and run down?
My favourite observation which speaks volumes about the kind of people in An Taisce Corcaigh was when the hotel was planned for the Coal Quay. Apparently building a hotel on this scale in such an area would ruin the historical markets… again someone please go to the Coal Quay and look for these markets… Eastenders.
The former An Post sorting site is designated specifically to accommodate a “tall building” under some of the various plans to the city/docklands. I presume the idea is to form a southern gateway approaching from Douglas/Bishopstown on the South Link. So O’Flynn’s plans probably suit the city planners.
Mind you – what constitutes “high-rise”… 9 stories???
It is a shame that site is not proceeding as originally planned – i.e. the new busaras. Any moves on the “camoflage canopy” for the existing eyesore?Oh my god – looking at it I could be on Clanbrassil/Patrick St, Arran Qy, or around Blackhall (with an extra few floors thrown in). Was Liam Carroll (sic) involved?!?
Mind you I’m sure it’s way better than what was there beforehand (esp if that brown brick thing next door is anything to go by)
Badaboom!
Lexington, is the Examiner building shown above the pre or post hobbling by An Bord P? It’s looks a story smaller in the 21 lavitts qy picture…
Pictures would be fab if you could get them. If Horgan’s Qy ever gets a move on that is…
It’s exciting alright – compared to what’s there at present. However if two separate submissions are made by An T for that Mannix Culhane building on Washington St – imagine what this will attract.
The ones above are from Murray O’Laoire’s own site.
I can get over the facade of SGShopCentre – as disney as it is… it’s the interior. A cheap grotty aged hole with second rate shops. All this talk about the last nail in the coffin for Grafton St with the rejection of Eircom-South King St plan… SGSC is doing far more damage – and a far greater indicator of how bad things are. Surely the “premier” shopping precint of our supposedly affluent country can do better than this?
Decision? Well when it gets planning permission and An Taisce have a child and the usual appeal wranglings happen and some awful watered down proposal gets through – some disaster of compromise, we’ll all be sorry that we even were aware of what could have been.
Interestingly enough under the development plan 2004-2009, all “major developments” must submit a “design statement” with the application. Hopefully this will spur developers/architects on to think a little harder about the overall design aswell as the finer and more subtle design elements of proposals.
Water st is a definite sign that all the “Cork is on the up” talk is finally coming to something. A bit of ambition killed noone either, and I’m glad the developers are trying to put this forward rather than resigning to the flat and safe densitites (IFSC cough).
That said I wish the design wasn’t so damn homogenous – so much river front (i.e. Corks strong point) wasted on the same block repeated five times. sigh. Other comment bothers me: 66m same as County Hall…. to reflect as a gateway from other side of city. Is 66m going to become Corks version of the Dublin 60m???
That said I was there for first time in ages during the long weekend and couldn’t believe the amount of activity going on down there. Go Cork!
