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Neither does CHQ. They obviously want a catchy name for the yuppies: “Eau-kay (D4 accent), oi’ll see yeau at CHQ”. But I don’t know if it works.
Yes, the ground floor is “the Georgian Room” of the Hotel. You can tell by the tart’s knickers curtains in the window.
Interesting comments about traffic in the city centre.
This is why the decision to terminate Luas line A at Stephen’s Gn was so disastrous, rather than the original plan to bring it down Dawson St, through College Gn and on to link with Line B at O’C St. The government just caved in to the vested interests of the AA, IBEC etc. back in ’98, who couldn’t contemplate losing an inch of roadspace in the city centre. And Garret Fitzgerald and his newspaper articles didn’t help either.
The original plan would have given the much reduced traffic priority on College Gn that notjim talks about, and given the city centre a civilised and continental feel. Instead we’ve just got the noise, fumes and brutality of heavy traffic domination. Really annoys me!
Shadow:
”un-named (!) organisation” was a just reference to feelings expressed towards an taisce on another recent thread. I wasn’t really trying to conceal an t.
Here’s an excerpt from a project I’m working on for a certain un-named (!) organisation, recommending improvments for Dame Street.
Is that wall (in the image) built of salvaged stone from the Amiens Street wall of the ramp, or is it new stone, or is it fake stone or what?
What I meant was that I doubt that the old pavements at college green would have been removed and replaced with something else (yet it is! happening to old pavements behind the four courts).
Overall I think the quality of surfacing on the luas corridor is fairly good. But, having a conservation background, I’d like to have seen more historic material maintained or re-integrated.
No relation to the Dublin Daily that folded last year I suppose? Their offices were in a wonderful 1930s cinema in Fairview (and not listed) with original steel windows .
(Sorry, I know that’s no help)Back to luas surfaces for a minute:
I see that a fine area of historic granite paving outside Wynn’s Hotel on Abbey Street is being maintained in situ at the moment while everything else around is being repaved and resurfaced.
This wouldn’t be an issue except that complete and intact historic pavements were removed from outside the Court House and Bridewell on Chancery Street a few years ago when luas work was beginning, and have not been reinstated.
I was annoyed about this and complained and got a long and slightly pompous letter back from the RPA explaining why this couldn’t be done because of “extensive platform construction below ground” – but it is being done now at Wynn’s!
And I doubt historic pavements on College Green would have been replaced had luas gone through there as originally planned (more nth./sth. bias).
Bottoms up to An Taisces healthy future. It has never been needed more. Nowhere is the environment being thrashed like Ireland and an taisce do a thankless job. Bullyboy Cullen doesnt like us cos we get in the way of vested interests, so he cut our funding, but its just a matter of highlighting the situation to the media, the Taoiseach, the other political parties and the environment DG.
(still nursing wounds from earlier exchanges, I see Fin……….and you’re a prominent member of the gang of four or five James was talking about)
Well said James!!!!!!!!
Diaspora has filled up this thread with pages and pages of boring crap about the organisation, which I’m sure people stopped reading ages ago. You’ve said all that needs to be said abouit an taisce in one single post.
You post-ers think An Taisce are bad. ‘Historic Scotland’ (‘Hysteric Scotland’ to their critics) make Edinburgh “a tough place to be an architect”, where practitioners “are hogtied by a powerful conservation lobby” who have reduced planning to a “box-ticking exercise”. (see Irish Times achitecture page of January 24, 2002)
At least here some daring stuff does get through. And so it should.
Alan, have you had any experience of this group?
Ms. Non Taiscist:
With reference to your comments, An Taisce is not a popularity club. The proposal for a complete ban on one-off housing is a fighting fire with fire excercise: in an ideal world no-one would propose a complete ban on one-off housing, but the magnitude of the problem in Ireland is so overwhelming that it is a necessary measure. And look, now it is a contentious debate, whereas before it was just happening undocumented.
Some of your perceptions of An Taisce are very anachronistic. I suggest you take a surf around its website to update yourself (http://www.antaisce.org).
Lastly, as one who is peripherally involved in the organisation, I concede that there are too many “martello tower preservation society” types still involved for its own good.
Diaspora, you’re sounding more and more like your average Irish politician: saying a lot but saying nothing.
sw101 said “what exactly is an taisces position on one off housing? are they just against it in general or insistent on higher standards?”
Its one-off housing policy is on the an taisce website, “www.antaisce.org”. Go to ‘campaigns’ then ‘policy statements’ then ‘rural built environment’. Its about 15 pages long and the first 2 lines of it are:
“Our countryside is a valuable and fragile feature of our heritage. Our current failure to protect it breaches minimum international norms.”
