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@manifesta wrote:
I’d prefer this piece of dereliction instead of sticking in some glossy, inevitable high rise in its place. But then maybe I just like creepy, run-down inexplicable buildings.
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Really? Are you by any chance a member of the Irish Georgian Society?Corporate boxes bring in the cash, as do restaurant facilities. And rugby, especially in the capital doesn’t attract the most…. “down to earth” crowd. Boxes and eating facilities there will rake in the dosh and are v necessay, I’d imagine.
I had a good chuckle recently when reading in the Irish Times that the residents’ associations (that dreaded title) are invoking the European Convention on Human Rights. These people…. The ladies who lunch should stay in the restaurant..Unless they do a “Golden Gate” job and make the structure stand out in its on right, then I fear it will continue to act as a wall between the city centre proper and its large extension down the quays.
Real consideration needs to taken regarding scrapping it and either re-routing the DART or putting in a low-viz bridge in the current location, as was planned years and years back.But I won’t hold my breath.
It’s pitch black at night..it’s like something from 1980s Eastern Europe; as if we can’t afford to light it.
For all Britain’s problems, they seem a bit more clued in about completing cultural projects and I wish we had the same reserve of ability in that regard here.@Hugh wrote:
The floodlit Spike will be a wonder. I’m assuming they are lighting it, now?
You would’ve thought that at some point in the last 4 years they would indeed have done so. Come back Britain, all is forgive.
When it comes to politics and a will to see public issues dealt with efficienctly and competently, we are shockingly poor. I am sometimes so ashamed at the amateur nature of this country.
I have always been a big fan of the spike (did you see the runners up’s ideas??) and I cannot believe that the floodlighting that was planned SO many years ago has still not been put up.Dublin is meant to be the capital city of a Western nation….how can we not even do this?
Seems to me that ‘yoof’ are the only ones to use public spaces. Oh, and junkies. The former are the only ones to give Central Bank plaza some life and the latter have colonised the eastern stretches of the boardwalk.
The benches could maybe have been done better with wooden seats. It’s all talk anyway..the odds of people sitting on them in any great numbers between now and April/May are limited!
Dire building as it is, but I thought the original (small) design had a bit of class.I think it might be time to abandon notions of people actually stopping on O’Connell St. It’s an almighty thoroughfare linking north and south Dublin and must be the busiest road and pedestrian route in the city.
Perhaps a better comparison with it is the Place de la Concorde in Paris. Big and pretty* but used mainly to get from a to b and to cross the river.*This assumes that one day O’Connell St will be pretty!!
Em..I especially like the two-storey greenhouse that appears to be housed in the top two storeys of the tower… 😀
Oh it’s going to be dire. More mediocre architecture and soulless corners of the campus..
Glad I graduate next year.Come to UCD, the bland soulless rubbish that’s being knoecked up everywhere is quite depressing. Identikit faculty buildings with little to distinguish them…
Whoever UCC are employing, if only they could send them here.Obviously a great deal of Parnell St must be included in this list too. So much crap.
lol, the Liffey Voyage is a river taxi, is it?
Sounds like a good development, and they’re right about the ‘gateway’ thing between their tower and U2’s.
With luck, this will pull up the ‘crew cut’ look of the docklands.That would be my worry too.
A private company would go higher and better.
A union?? Eh I don’t think we’ll see the height we have now. againAh for all the talk of poor Nelson..it looked like a dumpy oul’ thing and, I’ll be honest, I prefer the Spike.
The quite interesting issue mentioned earlier about whether or not the indigenous Irish could have surpassed the architecture of the British, seems to me to have been answered in stone.
The Bank of Ireland building, the Custom House, the Four Courts, the Kings Inns, our magnificent City Hall and formerly the Royal Exchange, domestic Georgian Dublin, the foresight of the Wide Street Commissioners..all this was the work of an Irish parliament, Irish people and Irish associations.
Anglo-Irish perhaps and Protestant by definition..but does that detract from the Irish nature of the work or the Irish nature of those hwo commissioned much of it? Does anyone here consider these buildings-these wonderous buildings-as anything other than ours?I don’t know if I’m the first to post this, but Ann Summers have stuck up a plannign permission notice, setting out their intention to re-do their shopfront.
Maybe it won’t be turquoise with lingerie adverts and mannequins directly opposite the GPO..
Myself and the other half disagree on this, I think it looks pretty bad where it is. A classy facade could make all the difference in the world.
