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Dont worry.
One more turn of the economic merry-go-round and the suits in Meridian, will divest or deaquisition and it can revert to the Shelbourne name again.How many names have been associated with the Belfast Europa?
My understanding is that the Nurses Home (tower)is gutted, but still standing and is to be demolished sometime soon. Why an admittedly ugly, but apparently serviceable building which would do well for student accomodation is to be demolished is beyond me.
Where do student nurses live in Dublin now?
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I saw it on a recent visit. It looks fairly dull, with almost no colour illustrations as far as I could see, and is seriously overpriced.
Pity.
Curious,
I was only rereading it last night myself and it is just amazing how quickly you forget the scandals and that the same names keep turning up.
I think the next edition will probably need another new LUAS map or two!
I do have some little information about the operation of the Phoenix Cinema, as part of a long term project I am slowly working on concerning cinemas but I have no information about the building, or the architect, and do not know where a photo of it might be available.
Ok since nobody has replied here is the little I know. Others must know much more.
Bayside was mainly developed by, if I recall correctly, Mc Inerney Construction and was aimed at private owners. Was some of it built for/sold to the National Building Agency?
I dont know the building you mention but…
The former Phoenix Cinema, with 850 seats, was on Ellis Quay.
Yes missed one episode being away but very good, especially the last episode.
A useful contrast with some other TV series on architecture, including that recently on RTE.
The Art Deco Ireland Website is at
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Salon/6941/deco1.htmAmen to that.
In Brussels too the vast majority of sites open are usually closed to the public or heavily restricted otherwise, – historic houses, public buildings such as the town halls of the various communes etc.
Anyone check to see if anything not normally is included anywhere in Ireland in the printed book for Heritage Week, I gave up at Dublin?
A brief look from a passing car did indeed suggest that piling was going on at the back of the site.
Do better than most / many Irish architects?
Not too hard a test that. The real secret is get something half decent built here, qualifed or not.
Do you remember all the pilgrimage traffic that Knock Airport was supposed to generate when it was built, mainly at the expense of the plain people of Ireland? Well they never came because there was nowhere for them to live. Now we have to build a city for them all to retire to within easy reach of the devotions.
I guess to build a station you have to know where it is to go. This metro changes route more often than a motorcycle courier, overground, underground via the Airport, maybe even Athlone, – to serve Mary O’Rourke’s constituency (soon to be a close in Dublin suburb).So to take on the job you would have to take on that risk of being messed about.
Given the quality of public commissions, and this may be PFI developed, I would also doubt it but then CIE do have a better record than others.
