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Prague are there ahead of us…even if its not the same use of post office courtyards.
The courtyards aren’t vast.
I don’t see why the post office can’t be maintained as is and the rest of the building given over to other uses. Just because An Post are comfortably esconced within…
I think the main post office in Prague has a cafe etc within its glazed courtyard, but I can’t find a pic online. It would be nice to have somewhere relaxing like that in the manic centre of the city.I went looking on Google Maps and, while I can’t be certain whether or not this is the building, there seems to be a little complex of whitish looking houses just north of Farmleigh Hse on White’s Rd. There seems to be some sort of courtyardy business there, suggesting that the bit adjacent to the road is actually an out-house of some sort with the main building removed from the wall..
The protrusion of Agriculture House over the corner of Govt Bldgs is an annoyance alright. Whenever it’s knocked and sold perhaps it could be part of the deal to ensure this doesn’t happen again.
There’s two for your money on Marlborough St..
That thing, the multi-storey car park which was clearly designed from the inside out and only had a wall put on as a last minute thing.
And the Eircom building, which actually has nice proportions if nothing else.How can the ugliest building not be Hawkins House, though?
@hutton wrote:
Needless to say the matter has since gone on and on and on in the Law Courts…
When will it end?! I was under the impression that there were only so many appeals possible before you run out of courts!
The two topics raised immediately above are incredible. This bloody mall was meant to be started seven years ago. And the spike has been standing there forlornly in the dark for five! Will either of these things ever be finished? PD proposals for elected mayors eith executive powers strike me as a very good idea. It’s about time somebody was directly accountable for the messing going on in City Hall and Wood Quay.
Well I’m only delighted to post this from today’s Irish Times.
The wily Fr Pat Noise looks set to remain a permanent fixture on O’Connell Bridge after plans to remove him were suddenly aborted by Dublin City Council on Tuesday morning. There were red faces in the council after it emerged that councillors on the southeast committee had passed a motion to retain the unofficial plaque to the fictitious priest in December. Cllr Dermot Lacey tabled that motion and said he couldn’t believe his eyes when he read in the The Irish Times on Tuesday the plaque was to be removed by council workers that day. “It would have been a direct act of defiance to local government if it had been removed,” he said. Mr Lacey said it appeared the relevant city council officials were not aware of the councillors’ decision. Ten minutes after he raised a query with the council, he was told that the priest had been spared once more. The plaque commemorates the mysterious cleric who “died in suspicious circumstances when his carriage plunged into the Liffey on August 10th, 1919”.
“pranksters replaced the original, which was removed a couple of months ago.”
I hope another one is put in its place!
@Frank Taylor wrote:
I wish I were a senator. It’s one of the few jobs you could do drunk.
senate 16 may, 2001
That is SOMETHING ELSE.
The Carlton and the Arnott’s mini-city are the two things that will save the west side of the street. If the GPO remains as a post office then the entrance will remain busy. I’d imagine the entrance to any museum would be on the Arnotts side, possibly on one of their planned fancy internal squares.
I think I heard something about that. Some sort of murmuring between govt and Arnotts.Oh, agreed!
It would be nice if an air of decorum and perhaps even grandeur could be returned to the Four Courts. It’s some hectic mess at the moment. Magnolia paint in the rotunda, criminally uncomfortable jury seats and public galleries and shabby jury rooms.
And then out the back….yeah it would be nice if the complex was overhauled. Hopefully the learned gentlemen in the Law Library won’t kick up too many fusses.
