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60m is a crap height, especially for the dreary area the “tower” is going up in and since there’s planning permission around the corner for a 90 odd metre building the “landmark” tag will be hard to live up to – unless they go for some totally wild design, that is.
Hey – it’s nothing a bit of steel wool won’t fix up. Send Bord Pleanala down there to get scrubbing.
Weirdly enough solar cells actually work better out of direct sunlight – which makes Ireland a much better place to solar power stuff than say – California.
Well in the last two months something’s clearly been going on for 2005. Was down last weekend – from no new development whatsoever to nothing but cranes and wholesale clearance/demolition of nasty derelict sites all over the city. Some slightly nicer than an average IFSC office block type development on quays on both sides of the Lee, and some below average. Still it beats an empty site with car wrecks etc…
Loads of new hotel activity, plus as of yesterday immediate start to the snazzy new airport terminal. So it seems Aer Rianta can do something when they feel like it!Also read that a list of undeveloped buildings/sites has been compiled and all owners that are refusing to redevelop these are being CPO’d by the city council (ala Carlton on O’Connell St). Some sites have been acquired already and are being refurbished. The others have taken the hint – example: Jacob’s Mill – a protected structure left rot for 30 years is FINALLY having something done with it.
That whole messy main drainage thing is still Cork’s biggest problem – the centre is a mess of trenches still – but the moves to improve the streetscape as well as the built environment should all come to fruition as the drainage thing is finished up… I’d say by 2005 they’ll have the place only gorgeous (like).
I always associate the chimneys with being on the DART (the odd time I get to use it that is).
graham – can’t believe I forgot BOI on College Green! But then again – you just walk past something everyday…
Hahaha! Yeah – but Alameda is an abandoned waste land owned by the US government already… probably made things slightly easier when you don’t have to plan a route through any existing areas, or land that gets suspiciously rezoned…
Surely the song is more important!!! I’d say there’s plenty of people who’ll be scared off going to the UK on their hols this year after hearing their “Null Points” effort!
The backdrop is one thing – but having your country represented by two off-key oompah loompahs… scaaary.The Athlone/A City argument is the exact same as Abbotstown/Lansdowne one. Realistically Bertie wouldn’t mind it in Abbottstown as the man has never spent a real day in his life in our fair capital – he knows nothing of what it’s really like trying to get around the place and what it feels like to spend 30 minutes travelling such a small distance. Sitting int he back of a tinted Merc while your driver speedas and the Gardai wave you on is hardly being down with your people.
If any minister actually had to experience transport as we do (instead of the pleasant stroll from Sandymount to Merrion Sq) then there would be a massive increase in spending in that area – and I think the Stadium would be built in Lansdowne.
I don’t think having craic is just what you make of it yourself – the location plays an enormous role. How many people go abroad to other cities for a weekend for a match? Locating it miles away from any airport or rail system would be madness and definitely stop people coming. some hassle just isn’t worth it.As for building in Cork or Limerick… no minister would sanction that, as good an idea as that is (hello – national spatial strategy???) nearly every project ever built in this country has revolved around Dublin – we seem intent onstuffing all four million of us into one little pocket on the east coast.
If the Stadium did go South or West – would that not provide a motivation to actually develop and improve the transport links to these places??? Which would also bring secondary benefits. True one third of the country lives in Dublin – but two thirds do not.The large white cement pump tower was there for so long it’s become engrained into my mind as part of the development! Was probably the most interesting part…
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Does that mean so wetherspoons will advertise as “Capel St” but it’ll actually be an hours bus ride away (that costs extra)…?
Do you mean Adamstown…?
At least they’re being consistent – remember Abbotstown plan – yes – we’ll build this huge sports campus and despite the lack of actual transport links to this site (as opposed to say… Lansdowne) we’ll illustrate the map with no – not one… but TWO Luas stops – inpsite of the fact Luas goes nowhere near Abbotstown!!! (and by the looks of DTO’s plan – probably wont either…)
Somehow I can’t see cheap shots and drink deals going down well with the media or the authorities in this ever more hysterical environment.
I do welcome the chance to not spend more than a fiver on a pint though. I remember ordering two Erdingers in Tom Reads last summer and it was such a watershed moment – I handed over a tenner and got an expectant look for more coins! My how those days seem so much more affordable!!!Lads – the planning system works perfectly. So long as you are a rich developer with lots of brown paper bags, or alternatively you want to join in on the fantastic “ribbon” trend along the peripheries of so many towns (not Wicklow though!).
Smart remarks aside – it really does depend where you are intending to build. Some LA’s are totally anal, and other are – well not quite as anal.
