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Cork has always been treated as a poor second cousin in the city stakes in Ireland. There needs to be mentality change in government with it’s attitude. Limerick has always rode the coat tails of Shannon Region – which for years has had money taxbreaks etc thrown at it. Galway is in the deprived Weshhhht. The tall ships are coming to Ireland in 2005 – are they coming to historically harbour bound Cork this a most suitable year…? No Waterford! The amount of Government support for this event is pathetic. I can only imagine how much Taxpayers money was spent to bring those http://www.dublinelevation.net floodlights to O’Connell St for a week. Read of some figures recently that basically most of tourism in Ireland outside the Pale is from Irish people travelling. Whould an event such as Capital of Culture not be a good opportunity to correct this imbalance…?
In any case – Cork is a city in Ireland, which is the Capital of Culture for 2005. This is something all of Ireland should be behind and PROUD of. We’re not getting a shot at this for a l-o-n-g time again.
The ESB around the corner has those slabs up too – everytime I walk past now on a Saturday I see the skateboarders just using that vast flat Fitzwilliam footpath parallel instead!
Well if Citibank (yuck) in IFSC is considered a “skyscraper” in some quarters… then what height guidelines are meaningless.
Oh great… Merchants Qy MK2.
So having inflicted a red brick carbuncle along an ENTIRE quay side – he’s now moving to infiltrate both Emmet Place and Patrick St.
On the plus side – Cork City is in need of investment and this activity HAS to be a benefit.
Agreed.
Is the Kevin Roche designed Treasury NCC much smaller (capacity wise) than the one just turned down. Surely if we’re going to build a NCC it should be of suitable size from day one.
I can see a few years down the line all same arguments again.
From todays Indo:
“THE dramatic seachange in how and where we live is graphically outlined in a major new report today.
It shows how the great economic changes – and soaring prices – of the past decade have impacted dramatically on hundreds of thousands.
An official Central Statistics Office (CSO) census report shows how Dublin’s commuter tentacles have spread relentlessly into neighbouring counties under enormous pressure from soaring house and commodity prices.
Little clusters of houses that were close-knit villages ten years ago are now swarming commuter belts.
The report says the urban sprawl in these commuter counties around Dublin – most notably Kildare and Meath – is spreading out of control.
That is directly as a result of a booming population . . . and the need for more affordable housing further away from the capital.
High house prices have also doubled the number of people forced to rent homes.
The report shows that one-in-nine houses and apartments is now rented out privately.
The statistical snapshot highlights:
* Apartment living has shot up from 6.5pc of dwellings nationwide to almost 9pc in the past ten years.
* A quarter of the entire housing stock in the commuter counties of Kildare and Meath was built since 1996.
* More than 70pc of all the houses in the villages of Sallins in Kildare and Ratoath in Meath were built during the six years between 1996-2002. Their populations quadrupled as a result.
* The amount of private rented accommodation almost doubled between 1996 and 2002, fuelled by rocketing house prices. One-in-nine dwellings is now rented privately.
* The Dun Laoghaire Rathdown area in south Dublin is the most expensive in the country in which to rent – the average for a furnished property is €250 a week.
* Donegal is the cheapest county to rent, averaging just €96-a-week.
* Almost half the families in the country has a personal computer or internet access.
More than a quarter of houses in Galway city, Carrick-on-Shannon and Skibbereen lives in privated rented houses – only 2.6pc of people in Portmarnock are renting.
The number of private rented dwellings increased from 71,000 in 1991 to 141,000 in 2002, reversing declines observed in the previous 30 years.
The one-off housing explosion now accounts for one-third of all houses being built, creating 400,000 septic tanks, many of them polluting water supplies.
Of the 1,280,000 dwellings in the state, 400,000 are in rural areas.
This often means they have to rely on septic tanks which are frequently linked to water contamination.
And 15pc of the current 1.28m houses and apartments nationwide were built in the seven-year housing boom period 1996-2002.
The report shows the number of new households being created is outstripping population growth.
This means that we have far more houses, many with just one occupant.
The report also shows that urban population is growing by 1.5pc a year.
Treacy Hogan
Environment Correspondent”If ever the need for a Spatial Strategy was to be demonstrated – this article does just that!
Capel St (plus westerly environs) is already Dublin’s Chinatown!
Isn’t it a bit too edgy to officially designate what is essentially a “ghetto” by errecting a gate in Cows Lane – OK Asian people please concentrate yerselves here!
In any case why should Dublin copy what other cities have, I’ve seen enough bloody Chinatown gates. Why not something bold and original?
Is it the Malthouse opposite Esat’s offices?
Think a new bar/bistro just went in the ground floor there.
Anyway that building is at the ooposite corner (same side) as the proposed triple aspect apartment building.
Well Shay Cleary designed this and is also responsible for the County Hall refurb. so the similarities are probably no coincidence.
Hey – forget the outside… TRIPLE ASPECT APARTMENTS!!! I like the sound of that… can I have one please?
Grand Canal Basin is shaping up to be a THE place in Dublin. BKD’s Treasury development is shaping up nicely – Gallery Qy etc starting to resemble their final designs. The building above will no doubt add greatly.
As for Eden Qy – I’d say digging underground so close to the river presents some engineering problems – there’s probably had to be alot of work on the basement before the upper floors can commence. Either that or the money has gone!
It’s all crap – the georgian society would object anyway no matter the location. How could the docklands hold a tall building (it being the nominated “suitable place”) when knickers were distinctly in a twist over the possiblilty of a roof (shock) being visible from Fitzwilliam St (from Spencer Dock) and thus destroying the illusion that it’s still 1800?!? And as for mentioning the docklands as the suitable location… this is also crap as the docklands was planned to be rigidly low rise from day one and has pretty much been built that way. Where exactly would these buildings go other than if some 5+1 box from 1997 got demolished. The millenium tower does not count.
Congrats to the city manager – forced an attitude change in landlords and massive amounts of retails space has been (will be) released coming on stream in the next few years. Too many of Cork’s inner city “prime” retails units are too small for suitable modern shops (think smaller units of grafton st). My only problem is that Owen O’Callaghan seems to have his fingers in almost all of the developments. The J+P building, the formers Guys site opposite the Bodega, (possibly) the Examiner site – AND Mahon Point… while he has proved his retail pedigree and ability to draw big names (check out lineup in Liffey Valley and Mahon Point) will he be happy to cannibalise one developments draw to suit another. Me thinks not.
Is a catherdral the “head church” of the diocese? The size merely to denote it’s importance/status?!?
older public lights can be connected above ground with a common switch wire. To underground might mean replacing the pole… Also – Dublin has alot more overground electricity than you’d think – this isn’t the UK.
40 years on and it’s still being discussed… O’Conn Bridge house is as much part of the view, appropriate or not. What would be inappropriate would be to remove it purely to restore a vision that dates from, well… we all know this boring argument. Personally I like to see every generation leave their mark (should that be scar…?!?) – It’s part of the nasty corrupt 60’s layer deposited on the city.
