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Yep, thats the one….It makes me ill to look at it!
I know they recently did it up….ha!….and while I hate it, I do believe its salvagable, it could be turned into something quite cool…im thinking along these lines, bearing in mind, there aint much to work with…
http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=9407&papass=&sort=1
God, where to begin…..
The Irish Life building.
The original Ilac.
The Q Building in Blanch, gross and very cheap looking.
Forget the name, but that 10 (or so) storey building on the Grand Canal, by Lad Lane….hideous
Bus Aras (obviously)
Hawkins House. Nuff said
Fingal County Offices on O’Connell Street. pleh.But my all time favourite ugly building is, well are…
The whole stretch of them from that stupid Statoil on the quays all the way up to the brewery…all of them…especially that horrible prefab looking yoke. Knock em down and start again please. Shameful.Im morto about being from Dublin when I walk or drive people by that stretch. I usually intrigue them into a fictional story about anything that reqires fixation on my face for however long it takes to clear them from vision…shockin.
I was just wondering if anyone knows whether the O’Connell Street redevelopment plan includes incentives to encourage the refurb and clean up of privately owned premises on the street?
It looks like its gonna be quite cool when complete, and lets face it, whatever problems it may have(or you may choose to have with it!) – anything is better than how it was before….(although I shall miss the Floozie and the lovely lights on the trees that made every night feel Christmas-y and nice and happy) but I just feel it would be such a shame to complete the project, then have all these mucky, dirty and unkempt building casting perpetual gloom over it all….
