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Almost no large conference & convention facilities manage to cover their operating costs, let alone their capital costs.
That is why many US cities impose taxes on airport users, most of whom never use the facility, to fund them and with many of the taxed having no votes locally. Remind me, was it not the US that revolted against taxation without representation!
There are also big questions about convention business in terms of its impact on sustainable development, traffic congestion in city centres. Other benefits are invariably over hyped ( the Jobs, Bednights etc).
Perhaps the National Spatial Strategy will find a home for it.
” the temptation to trespass up the poddle is now quite intense… “
Dont worry, another few days of rain and you will be able to paddle in the Poddle very easily.
Enjoyed the show too.
I was forced to visit this!
Some good ideas, especially the contrast between the west of Ireland grass field and the city but basically a failure.
Almost impossible to read the texts as the lettering is small and there is little contrast between the text and the background.
However, some of the visitors there that day found it moving. Not all had Irish connections or were Aran gansai NYC Irish.
” QBC’s everywhere, frequent busses all the time.”
And 24 hour bus lanes served with buses only in daytime, such as the airport road.
Oh, we have that already.Been in Prgue recently, World War II, 40 years of Communism, a Hundred Year flood and still better public transport now than Dublin has. Still a 9% increase in fares will take the commuter out of the car.
Former Iona Garage
Even more scary than the growth of the capital is the growth of minor Irish towns into urban sprawl, totally dependent on the car for access, shopping etc.
They will never be large enough to justify any local public transport other than taxis, and when the population inevitably ages will present the same problems as can already be seen in some parts of the USA – the old having to move. When they cannot any longer drive they lose their ability to function.
Just as Dublin 2000 could be predicted in 1960 this can be predicted.
Interesting show, but how quickly people forget. Tower blocks were also to free up surrounding land for recreational space, as well as city space. However Corbu had sun and sea to offer, while Hull & Ballymun seemed to offer treeless mud as a preferred landscape architecture.
Same condensation problem in Ballymun, intensified by use of portable Gas Heaters, remember them?
Stranger still was the decision was to knock the Nurses Home at St Vincents Hospital, rather than use it as student accomodation for nearby UCD. I guess this was still in good shape as Matron would have ensured standards maintained.
Useful reminder of lots of money down the drain.
“Why the hell do the national gallery let it be such a target?”
The National Gallery do not own Russborough, which is owned, I understand, by a foundation.
And if you have time, money or willingness to ramble, dont forget
London Open House Weekend; Saturday 21st September, Sunday 22nd September.
From deep in the memory comes a figure of 18 feet (remember them) actually reduced, – compared to the 30 requested, emerging as a compromise deal
how others do it – France from NY Times
More than 10,000 privately and publicly owned landmarks in France will be open to the public during the annual Journees Europeenes du Patrimoine weekend festival on Sept. 21 and 22. Most of these sites — government offices, factories, convents and chateaus — are off limits for tourists the rest of the year. Nearly all will be free of charge.
In Paris, the late-19th-century orchid collections in the Luxembourg Gardens greenhouses will be open to the public, as will the Art Deco amphitheater at the Institute of Political Science, on the Rue St.-Guillaume. Visitors can also admire the Ministry of Justice, 13, place Vendome, near the Place de la Concorde, and, in the Seventh Arrondissement, the prime minister’s council chamber in the 18th-century Hotel de Matignon and the Assemblee Nationale in the Palais Bourbon and the Hotel de Lassey, as well as the Ministries of Youth and Education, and Agriculture. In the scenic Pays d’Auge countryside of Normandy, the 16th-century half-timbered Manoir de Cauvigny, ancestral home of Charlotte Corday, will open its doors for the weekend. On Sunday, Strasbourg celebrates the 250th anniversary of its School for Equitation, Fencing and Dance with riding, saber demonstrations, Baroque dance and a two-hour parade through town. Children at the 11th-century Loches Dungeon near Tours can try their hand at copying the graffiti cut into the stone by medieval prisoners.
Detailed schedules will be posted at regional tourist offices throughout the festival. In Paris, a Journees du Patrimoine information kiosk at the Jardins du Palais-Royal is open from 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 16 to 22. Information: (33-1) 40.15.37.37 (from Sept. 16) or online at http://www.culture.fr (French only). CORINNE LaBALME
Mostly the same old places already open are open. Nowhere as good as in other countries, where special efforts are made by the private sector.
Free event in the National Library tomorrow afternoon, – if you have never ventured in here into this nice space do so.
Ever notice there are no signs to the second largest city, Cork , going out of Dublin?
Cork is a diversion off the Limerick road for traffic planners.
And if you want an architectral experience you can pay 35 euros for it at the National Gallery Book Shop.
This may be an urban myth. The Arts Block opened, if my memory serves me right, in either very late 1969, or more likely 1970.
As the student events of 1968 were a total suprise to UCD chiefs, as well as to others, they could not have anticipated this at the design stage.
“Who designed the final church?”
The present church is by Jones & Kelly(1958), a strange mixture, exterior not at all bad but with an especially dull interior – Bertrand Grovenor Goodhue’s Nebraska Capitol tower belfry, goes to Byzantium inside.
