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have no doubts about that. i didn’t get my lands rezoned so there is going to be no bypass… class isn’t it.i think i talked too soon. some objectors to loughrea by-pass!!!! when will this country learn.
anyway. has this building gone in for planning?
Originally posted by Devin
Fin, you are harbouring major resent against An Taisca. Every one of your posts contains sarcasm and hatred against it. Why dont you tell us what happened? What plan of yours was sucessfully objected to by by An T?i didn’t think everyone but hey! and i believe i revealed in previous threads regarding this subject and i’m not a parrot. as well as we are preparing another design for the same site it would be inappropriate of me.
Originally posted by Devin
Was it a one-off house? ( & you seem to be one of the few people in your profession who are pro- bungalow blitz –bungalow blitz! i don’t think i every subscribed to that but i am from a small town in galway so know the effects when someone can’t build on their families land when someone who probably has never stepped out of the pale says they can’t build for a completely stupid reason, weither that be a bungalow or 2 storey depends on the person and their financial aspects.
Originally posted by Devin
if you are professionally qualified, that is)oh! honey…you shouldn’t , that sort of insult will only make me cry. let me guess, you belong to the champions of the quality of life…i tell you what…as part of ur fundraising you should come down the country and ask the “locals” for money…i’ll let you into a little secret..ur hated.
i know..makes no sense at all. u would think that our publis reps. would be just slightly smarter if they want to be corrupt. mind u they have been getting away with it for years….
and fair play the planner u gave that house the go ahead. he/she is definately earmarked for the darwin awardtrue but back to architecture. 🙂
galway has some new projects that are being built at the moment that look fantastic. and are a welcome addition to the architectural fabric of the city. it shows the vision of our planners here that we can have such dynamic buildings for a regional city. a lot of people don’t like the gmit(rtc) but i think it’s a beautiful building but there is also one going up in towards town from the gmit which has the potential…well road side anyway.the future is bright for architecture throughout the country:D
i don’t know if the ifa are to blame. but it is our planning system. well i hope the introduction of this fast-track for big infrastructural projects will cut this out. a lot of it is small minded people as well. i know with the loughrea by-pass that it was proposed twenty years ago (as it is a shit of a town to come through ) the business people of the town objected cos they thought they would lose money from the business. as it turns out if u stop there u will be waiting for ages to get out so nobody stop there anymore. now the business people are srying for it. it’s starting soon by the way. but a main part of the motorway is supposed to start soon also. i have no problem with jonny foreigner coming in and doing our roads for us. after all we did it for yanks and brits.
u haven’t seen the latest guinness ad then. he walked across it in a couple of seconds!!! 🙂
point taken but the corrib our my own river the shannon are a lot cleaner than the liffey!!!!
i’m a 1 man galway toursit board….the motorways if we are to believe the policitians will be underway soon and not just these stupid little by-passes. but we can’t build our own raods seemingly. i think we should hire foreigners and they will lash them down.
and the pace of evolution is slow. patience is needed.lol…..disapora u didn’t take to kindly to my joke the first time i decided not to mention it again but i can see she must feel the same!!!! ha,ha…
u could be right. i would like to hear from anyone who has been in this position to see how much interference happened in the design and how they got on with this consultant….
as i believe we are in a transitional period from a 2nd rated country to a top rated i believe that we in this generation just have to live with the disruption caused during our “growing up”. it will prove a sucess in a few years time and everyone will wonder what all the fuss was about and of course everyone is going to say they were behind the ideas all the time.fair point but i have never personally worked with a management company but it may happen.
and would not trying to develop two such hubs not be in the best interests of the city.
oh! right.
in regards to interviewing prespective site managers..that is not up to the architect either. that is the client and therefore the council in this case. architect’s never do that. the site manager is always appointed by the client. the management company’s name is given as part of the planning process, usually part of the conditions. i don’t know if it would help anyway if we did interview them as the manager could change in 6 months so it would be pointless.unfortunately balconies are seen as a necessary evil in regards to defensible space. i agree with u that a building so high nobody is going to use them as it would literally blow ur head off but then again maybe i’m wrong.
i thought this was an intregrated transport hub. or will be soon. around busaras and connolly would also be a location for high rises…not apartments though!!!!
Originally posted by Diaspora
Not a snob, it was an utter disgrace the treatment the people of Ballymun were subjected to. Lifts not working facilities not put in etc etc etcthe lifts not working is not the buildings fault..rather the council as while not knowing much about ballymun i believe they were council owned.
facilities not put in??? which ones?
it is very easy to blame the architecture and architects but upkeep has a lot to do with the sucess of a building. of course if necessary facilities aren’t put in then u look at the architect’s but then again back in that time it might not have been part and parcel of the norm to put these facilities in and could have been up to the council to provide elsewhere. i am not going to defend them as i believe i have only seen them once and that ws from a distance and so know nothing about the problems.Originally posted by Diaspora
An Taisce wouldn’t need to acquire this property, a sale at open market value would provide a buyer prepared to restore it as what it is a residence, or possibly a professional practice might convert it in a sensitive manner as offices or even an architects studio. So no I don’t accept it has value only as a cleared site subject to the costs of site clearance.this is not economicialy viable. to convert a premises such as alan described might cost a fortune with little return and sure an taisce might object saying it was a dwelling and should stay one. and then ur complete screwed.
Originally posted by Diaspora
Your explanation of lesser quality is good, but it does not justify an opinion that where the proscribed planning observer identify flaws in a lower spec development that they are anti-development.i agree but sometimes progress is more important than saving some run down building even if the replacement building is of less architectural merit.
that’s true. but i was once told that there is never anything original in architecture as it’s all been done before. now i don’t particularly believe that but it makes one think.
