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The O’Connell Street sites (and most of the Luas sites) are devoid of activity at weekends. One Saturday afternoon, I saw a pair of hard hats and an empty mug sitting on a load of paving slabs – like the workers had just downed tools at 5pm on Friday.
This shouldn’t be tolerated on the main street of a capital city; they should be working around the clock to get these things done, particularly when so many people are being put out by the works.:mad:Work seems to be nearly finished on this and the signs for the pub are up – it’s the ‘Porterhouse North’!
Look forward to having a pint in it soon!:DCan I be a voice in the wilderness and stick up for my hometown?
It’s got plenty of problems – a lot of which are slowly but surely being addressed – but it’s not the derelict, backward shithole that this thread makes out.
It’s got ten times more life in it than your average Euro- of British city, with or without cracked pavements!The lights on the tip are pretty second rate, but wouldn’t look so bad if the rest of the Spike was floodlit. If it was in any other country, a couple of spotlights would be trained on it and it would look great.
Wasn’t it originally planned to be floodlit?
On the lights half-way up; I thought they were also aviation warning lights…
They look crap, too…:rolleyes:That whole skyscrapers thing is a long running issue both on this board and in reality and has been done to death here really, however I can rarely resist another “Cardboard box” rant. I used the word “skyscrapers” but really what we’re talking about are only 20-25 storey buildings, and wouldn’t be described as skyscrapers in many other places.
Most people I would think are in favour of taller buildings in Dublin/Ireland in general, the problem is the planning system up until recently seemed to be awash with ultra conservatism, and is generally appallingly slow to support anything different. Then you’ve got your serial objectors who like to object to buildings on the basis of their height alone without even considering anything else (the local tree-hugger representative is usually prominent here),which means developers are more likely to propose the patented “cardboard box” solution so beloved of Dublin city to avoid all the hassle.
Witness the extraordinarily shite IFSC extension for proof of that. I absolutely loathe that IFSC place, especially the recent extension which is more boring than one of Father Stone’s visits to Craggy Island. One of those boxes even looks like a public toilet (the white one at the end that seems to be clad in sanitary tiles), yet it still got permission despite its utter shitness (get it?) because it was in box shape. Do you actually have the use of a bulldozer like your name suggests? If so I can think of a good use for it.
Anyway things seem to be slowly changing, there are several proposals for taller buildings in Dublin particularly. It remains to be seen if they actually come to fruition though.
PS Are you sure TGI Fridays is closed? And if so when did that happen?
progressing quite well i think, moving fairly quickly and seems to be well managed in terms of disruptions etc. overall, i think it is beginning to look good and the quality of workmanship and finishings appears to be of a high standard, however, the rubbish bins are poor.
it will create a few interesting new pedestrian spaces, which are already emerging as focal points along the street. the lamps are interesting and have grown on me over time. the paving, i think, works well too
Try here:
http://www.howardholdingsplc.com/hh/dev/irl/cm6ph.html
When I saw you use the word “bland” FIN for some reason I immediately thought “Scott Tallon Walker” – I have no idea why that was! So I quickly checked their website and lo and behold:
http://www.stw.ie/projects/project.asp?id=170
Bland and STW, who would’ve thunk it, eh?
What about the Kinsale Road roundabout in Cork? – the southern version of the Mad Cow roundabout. Similarly I think they might have plans to replace it with flyovers now.
Building work on the new stadium isn’t expected to begin until 2006, after the WC qualifiers are over. I suppose they’re hoping that the GAA will finally see sense by then and recognise that they can’t keep wasting an asset like Croke Park the way they’ve been doing and let FAI/IRFU rent it until Lansdowne is built.
I beginning to doubt that fast track legislation gets passed at all, which is a great shame. Apparently there’s a lot of opposition to it even from within the cabinet. I’ve read somewhere that Kapitan McDowell is dead set against it because he’s afraid they’ll fast track an incinerator in his constituency (or something like that).
I wonder could the Americans be persuaded to blast the PDs into space as part of their Mars exploration programme? McDowell could argue points of law without actually doing anything all he wants with the rocks up there.
Definitely no retractable roof, nor will there ever be one since the two ends of the stadium are much lower than the two main stands (which are also curved in shape), so I doublt it’d be technically feasible.
The new stadium looks a lot like the City of Manchester stadium where Manchester City now play in my opinion, except the goal ends there are two-tiered whereas Lansdowne will only have a single tier ar each end.
Do Scott Tallon Walker ever design anything that isn’t in box form? Do they employ primary school kids to do all their work for them or something?
I made it into the National Library today and two minutes with Thoms told me the offices were Nos 1 and 2 Cork Hill – the street that links Lord Edward St. and Dame St. It’s the building on the corner, opposite City Hall and on the Parliament St corner nearest Christ Church. Today it’s an italian restaurant called Da Pino. So there.
Thanks for your help.
Thanks Diaspora for that – as you originally suggested. I suppose I thought it would be common knowledge…
No. The original paper was somewhat of an institution. I’ve come across several quotes like this (speaking about the 1916 rising): ‘Captain Connolly’s detachment had been detailed to occupy the City Hall and the “Daily Express” building opposite it.’ So presumably it was near Lord Edward St.
Yes – I’m writing an article about the transmission – as you say the first sports broadcast. I think it was somewhere in Lord Edward Street/Castle St. area.
Is anyone familiar with Lismore Castle in Co. Waterford? It may not be the most architecturally or historically significant building, but its setting makes it one of the most spectacular buildings I’ve seen in this country.
“Thus far not one credible high-rise building has emerged in Dublin”
Very few high-rise buildings of any kind have emerged in Dublin or anywhere else in Ireland recently, mostly because of the whinging and whining that goes on among conservationists anytime any proposal is made no matter what the quality. They see the words “high-rise” and the broken record is set in motion.
Developers have been reluctant to bother proposing even decent well-designed high-rise schemes because they don’t want the hassle from the likes of An Taisce and their ilk with their dictionary of buzz words and terms that they love to trot out (“overshadowing” being the most overused in my opinion) and the almost inevitable rejection of their plans as a result.
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There are three points on this:Second point is that it would destroy the Heritage value of two important buildings namely Dr Steven’s Hospital and The Royal Hospital in Kilmainham. Lads keep the modern art forms within the Museum.
I really hate it when people bring up nonsense like this. This new buildings ruining the views, or the heritage or whatever of old buildings is nearly always a ploy by conservationists to block any new developments and far too often they actually get their way. Do real people honestly believe in this rubbish?
Do the skyscrapers of New York destroy the heritage value of St Patricks Cathedral? Maybe like here they would have been better off banning tall buildings so they wouldn’t overshadow the cathedral – I’m sure the city would be all the better for it.
Isn’t it terrible how the skyscrapers of Sydney ruin the views of their fantastic harbour, if only Irish conservationists could have been around to put a stop to it. Only a fool would think Sydney is a spectacular modern city now.
I really don’t understand conservationists, they seem to be anti almost everything that isn’t run-of-the-mill boring these days. In fact if they were around when Dr Steven’s Hospital and The Royal Hospital in Kilmainham were being built they would probably have been against them too because they ruined the “heritage value” of something or other.
