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Last minute work at Ranelagh this evening on the wide set of stairs up under the arch to the Puce line, – putting in hand rails I think before opening tomorrow.
I’d watch this one in the wet – touch of the Odessa Steps about them.
Free tomorrow evening.
Glad you enjoyed the Lawrence show.
The detail drawn from those big glass photo plates is something else, but I wish they would use non reflective glass frames or no glass at all for this show (after all these prints can be sacrificed if need be).Incidentally, is not the space very poorly used in that Gallery, – especially the upstairs gallery which usually has no more than four or five prints hanging there?
Anywhere else they would use the room height more agressively, with big blow up photos on the upper walls. A huge space with more unused potential.
Only seems like yesterday since I took photos from the top of the flats, when they were just newly built.
How proud the first tenants were of them at that stage, and how apprehensive they were to leave their kids play on the acres of mud / grass that surrounded them. They really do look dire now, with all the balconies painted.
One wonders how they would have fared, had controllable central heating been included, compared to the on or off underfloor system chosen.
Took a look at the Windy Arbour halt
Sad to say the vandals had paid a visit to the “shelter” for Luas at the Arbour and tested some of the glass screens to destruction, since the photo earlier up this site was taken.
Just having one ticket machine on each platform could be interesting, and a lot of fun when one is out of order (of course this will never ever happen) – with passengers darting over and back across the lines to buy their tickets.
They obviously hope to rely on season tickets – but as far as I know there have been no published tariff rates for them, as yet, and very little chance to sell them in advance now of the likely first service date.
But we make it up as we go along in this country.
They are chawing away at the top of Dawson Street also.
– gosh it must be about a year or two since that place was comprehensively “refurbished”, so more and more people could have space, and a new surface, to wait on, to cross the road.
I used to think the Brendan Behan story about the anniversary of the hole was a little fanciful, but no more.No suggestions regarding the 44 and the 48 buses yet.
Anyone any theories how the buses, such as the 44 or 48 outbound, which currently come
– up Merrion St / Hume St / Green / Earsfort Terrace will now be routed?
Kildare Street is not an option.
“including shelter ” at Windy Arbour.
Thanks but it seems as if the shelter here has no protective or sheltering side walls, – dont fancy waiting too long there.
Clue
– the placename may reveal something about the weather / local microclimate.Just as a pure matter of curiousity – who is going to pay for this,- theatre, operate it etc,
if it ever gets built.A bit like the Cardiff Opera House, – I think the rendering is as much as you are likely to ever see.
Can anbody answer this query?
Conventional Trains run on dedicated track, kept away from the public, but it has been considered necessary / prudent even to mark trains prominently, at the front, so persons can see them coming.
The LUAS shares the route with pedestrians, bikes and even cars, but there is no apparent need to put any safety making in prominent colours on the front of the LUAS?
Now is it wrong for the trains or wrong for the LUAS?
Yes
Big changes on the Green. Great to see “planning on the hoof”.
1. The choke point where Hume Street joins the Green, put in , oh all of three / four months ago, is now being dug up and it sems to be being removed. This “improvement” caused traffic jams back to Merrion Street, but perhaps that was what it was supposed to do?
2. The traffic island on the Leeson St / Green junction is now partly removed also.
Deep in darkest Ireland, a large site is perhaps being consolidated , doubtless with enough “planning envelopes” used.
It will soon be ready, ready for the day when the scheme to decentralise, i.e. to bring government closer to the current Minister’s constituents, so they can flog off an auld site, begins to fall apart. That will be when there is a reshuffle of Ministers or change of Government, as the current “scheme” is tailor made for the existing configuration and for absolutely nothing else.
Then, and only then, will Ireland return to its true and ancient capital, Cork, to be ruled free of planning blight, by the cutest for the cutest.
PS – The City of the BVM planned for out here in the west, seems to be on the back (insense) burner now does it not not?
Came home on a bus yesterday that broke down – just about 5 yards past the choke spot on Harcourt Road where the Luas crosses it.
The outbound traffic was passing with great difficulty, some using the Luas lines to get by, as we waited.
Absolutely amazed to see an outbound Luas creep up and barely pass us by, – if it had ben inbound it would have unable to pass. Even more amazed at the reaction of the delayed traffic, hooting and trying to beat the Luas. Most of them probably had no idea what was causing the problem, or how close they came to whacking into the Luas.
Two further thoughts – the Luas colour scheme renders it fairly invisible, on a dull day it seems to blend back into the buildingscape. From a safety point of view this cannot be ideal.
Also the warning signal from the Luas is pretty weak, especially on a turning curve as it was here, you may well not hear it over traffic noise.For the record the bus eventually go going, passed another broken down bus and after a long delay we all got swopped over to another bus. One hour to do two miles. There was a second Luas inbound at the new (and much more ugly) bridge at Ranelagh.
Your work is done for you
Have a look at the Art Deco Ireland website
On the Stillorgan road, have a look at the poor old Esso Building – not ever a masterwork, but always well kept, in nice grounds, until very recently.
Good luck.
There is a relatively recent book called “Cinema Designers” which feature mostly recent american multiplexes. It was / is on sale in Chapters Books in Abbey St Dublin.
However the best books on cinema design are probably from the 1930’s, there is for example a book by P Morton Shand (called Cinema Buildings or similar, the exact name escapes me at present) long out of print but in some Irish University Libraries.
Have a look also at the website of the US Theatre Historical Society, which links to a book section on Amazon .Com
I recently had northern European visitiors visit Cork.
They were much struck by the prevalence of dereliction, next to development, in the main streets. Likewise the 60’s and 70’s tat was much noticed. While I would regard downtown Cork as more interesting than downtown Dublin, if a little rough around the edges, they did not have this view at all.They could not believe the incomprehensible down town traffic system, which is very poorly signed as usual in Ireland, and when I told them how long the Patrick Street road works had been continuing they thought I was telling lies.
They also found prices very very expensive by the way, so will not be back for the City of Culchies in 2005.
There was a long queue of young patrons outside last night, almost spilling out on to the road, so that business seems to be good.
