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Technically no problem. The IAA has an impressive set of plans and there may well be plans in the USA with the building control people there. Legal rights might be a problem to sort out.
The artwork is lost, but there are B&W photos.
And let us not forget the little garden in front in the shape of Ireland, – a nice twee little touch.
RTE showed the demolition of this building on the TV news, so much for my earlier optimism.
Not even a bank holiday
Great news , especially on one of those days when everything else was going badly to hear this is saved.
We must watch the GAS Co very carefully, despite listing it is a vulnerable site.
Without doubt the best book is by Paul Larmour,
“Belfast -an illustrated architectural guide”.The only problem is that it is out of print, and very hard to find second hand
There is a newly published book about Pearse Street by Katriona Byrne for the Civic Trust.
Worth having, shame about the Street. It seemed to be the only copy there, cost £8.I came across it in Hodges Figgis last week and I intended to do a post dealing with it but it went AWOL in the house, – only a clearing up exercise following the Nuzum query turned it up.
It is full of photos, mostly recent ones and draws on the available information. Rather soft on the “unimproving” landlord of much of the street.
Amazingly Nuzum, no 187, is a protected structure. Shopfront from c1905, no date given for ending of trading by Nuzum.
I think I recall them as tarmacadam contractors, but the book suggests coal dealers (a connected business?).
Am I correct in saying that there is no pedestrian underpass running under a (on grade) road anywhere in Dublin?
I certainly do not recall one.
Canon have a new model out which offers the capacity to use existing Canon fit lenses and is somewhat cheaper than earlier attempts to merge conventional lenses and digital backs, I think the model reference is D30.
It scored well in some recent tests.
Myths banished
There is a tunnel between the the two front wings of Government Buildings in Merrion Street. As it is only about four feet down it is not, of course intended for any purpose but communication and of no value in WWIII.
There are indeed passages connecting Govt Buildings and the Dail(into the Dail office area,- not so the Taoiseach can appear in a puff of smoke in the Dail chamber), but these are above ground and again for mundane purposes, especially to avoid rain.
There is no passage under Merrion Street, but the cellars under the hotel seem to run well out into the roadway, which may be the cause of that one.
As for the Belfield myth, there are heating ducts from the Boiler house but only the lab rats are likely to escape the fury of the undergrads that way.
An interesting potential use but with a poor catchement area, given the site and a fair amount of competition nearby.
It is still vacant and with for sale signs up as of a fortnight ago.
I also saw that Archers 2 is progressing well.
Yes time the temporary car park was gone.
Poor Raymond Mc Grath, almost the only thing of his in Ireland is that obelisk.What is really astonishing is how quickly shopfronts are changed and discarded.
Lawrence photos taken before WW I, could show the same shopfronts as retained into the 1960’s or even longer, – sometimes with repainted trader names the only change over time.
Looking recently at some shots I took in Dublin in 1998, it dawned on me that very few of the “new shopfronts” were still there in 2001.
A life cycle of months, not years is now in evidence. If you like it, take a photo it may be gone next time you pass.
There are aerial shots of Cork also and perhaps of some more places, but the loading takes forever on 56k so I have not checked it out.ADSL at work tomorrow.
Yes very interesting. I am glad you found it, the navigation on the site would have led me to assume just maps.
Dont know anything about this change but perhaps Dorset Street offers the finest, most relevant, introduction to Irish architecture.
It has everything, well everything that you could be ashamed of anyhow.
It could be a fantastic street, almost a ceremonial entrance for travellers from the airport to the city. It even has some decent buildings in it.
Some day the man in the anorak is going to notice it, and then we will spend billions on ticky tacky.
Yes the trend to gates in private developments seems to be creeping out.
Having looked at some of the entryphone / electric PIN type lock arrangements on some of the private gates, it seems to me that these may be a serious emergency hazard. In some of the very dense apartment developments one does not need a lot of imagination to see Stardust style scenarios, with minor gas or fire emergencies turning more serious.
It does not seem that, unlike building safety systems that are are designed to “fail to open lock” or “push to open”, in a power or fire crisis these gates apparently stay shut.
Outsiders will not know the PIN, the entryphone may fail, so insiders cannot communicate. Anyone know if the fire service holds these codes? (I doubt it)
The freesheet “Southside People” carries a report on Archers in the current issue. This thread has been dormant for a time.
The report, long on the history of the case, says definitively that work has commenced. Apparently planning permission was given on 7 Feb, for a four story office block, 15 apartments and a change of use for “Archers” to a restaurant. A glazed atrium between the garage and apartment building is part of the “restoration”. I have not seen this elsewhere.
It also quotes a Cllr as saying this was the first Ford garage built outside the USA, -which given that Ford has traded outside the USA since before WWI can hardly be correct.
You might try Colm Lincoln’s UCD MA thesis on working class housing in Dublin.(c1980?) It might have a reference.
