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oh! it should be redeveloped and it really looks well. don’t get me wrong on that but nvpd as u said it is keeping in line with others but who is to say we can’t start setting standards instead of just fallin in line behind other countries. our litle country is renowned for producing artists and scholars so why don’t we prove it
that looks good. fair play. but i do see a recurring theme of these tree like columns used in most proposed terminals, be it plane,bus or train. maybe i’m wrong but while they look good i don’t want every building being similiar. that’s not architecture….an engineer can do that, as architect’s we should try to push boundaries and come up with equally beautiful yet inherently different buildings. any comments?
the high rise in galway s a pipe dream. The one on the website is a joke. i can’t remember the website address but if you put salthill into google it’ll come up. it’s a heinz beans can turned upside down. anyway there was a design done for it(me) but it hasn’t a hope in hell of becoming a reality. it was supposed to be built on reclaimed land therefore by-passing the need for planning permission. I believe it the only authority that needed to be applied to is the dept. of the marine. but i do agree the some skyscrapers for each mahor city in the country would set them up for the future as “gateways”…ha,ha…whatever happened that brilliant idea? has it gone by the wayside cos since it’s hyped launch there hasn’t been another word and the counmcil’s seem to be ignoring it.
too true but it’s cool that they think so much of your design to copy it!!! still dirty thieving b**tards
it’s the one alright. got an email from here with the story. looks really good alright. but there is something about it being over budget. now there is a suprise. i know it’s on another thread but the way every gov. project goes over budget is a joke. but when is it supposed to be oopen to the public?
that sounds cool….. do they require direct sunlight…only asking cos if it’s a bad day ( lots of cloud like nearly everyday) does it still work the same and is there a back up to the electricity??? i know that would kida defeat the whole purpose of it but it could be interesting
i do agree that they look awful. and yea what is up with the lights???? it’s just making sure we see their ugliness all the time. however i do prefer them to the alternative of never ending housing estates with all houses looking the same. time to get the height restriction in towns abolished to a certain degree.
“Why have 2 large stadia? Because one of them is a closed shop?”
yes but why? we all paid for it. discrimination is against the law now as far as i am aware!“Isn’t it more civilised that we can walk to the game from the centre of our capital city?”
i like this one!!! very good. how could you define that as more civilised? what is civilised? going en-masse to a sport where you want to give the other team a good trouncing.
sorry i couldn’t resist… i get your point about it but it still forces fans into the city centre there clogging it up more and then trying to find parking and not get ripped off( by the way your parking charges up there are crazy ). not able to drink because of the whole driving thing. and then fighting to get home through the traffic again. hmmmmm! sounds appealing.if i lived up there i might have the same opinion as that but open your minds too the possibility that maybe this isn’t a great system. i do agree that the dart is brilliant to get to the matches. but isn’t there supposed to be a luas out to the bertie bowl??? as i said earlier i have no idea where abbotstown is so i don’t know if that is better i do think it’s not worse. it’s not going to be our choice anyway so basically it’s going to be to which politican owns the land.
do we all agree that we need a new stadium at least?
that’s true…and i have been going since about the same age too. has anyone projected what the 65,000 stadium would look like on lansdowne site?
and just cos i think it’s fun, why should we have 2 stadiums of large capacities in the city? seeing that we as tax payer’s are paying for both of them do we not have the right to say( and not the gaa council) what should be played in them…i know it’s totally off the topic but hey…
but speaking of the character of landsdowne… would this character not be lost in regards to the layout of the stadium if it’s taken down and rotated???
and where do we play international’s until the new one is built and in all honesty that could take years..i don’t relish going to england or for that matter scotland for our international games either in rugby or football. we would be the laughing stock of europe…going to a foreign country to play our “home” games…fair point but all the arguments were about this “famous” walk from dublin centre to lansdowne…and the pubs encountered on the way…in the states people park in the car park and take out cans and drink there…fair enough they may have the weather sometimes but as an example it shows no matter what people are going to enjoy themselves as they are there primarily for the game
and d_d_ made a good point as regards the spacial strategy…limerick has shown albeit to a limited degree that it can cope with major matches with munster playing in thomond …
the idea of having down in one of the regional cities is gone but if it did then the investment in that particular city would be profound…. it’s infrastructure would have to be upgraded and then that in itself would bring more investment etc…. if the were serious about their “big idea” then they would think of locating it elsewhere but as i said it’s never going to happen.how and ever, back to it’s position in dublin, on the outskirts would be preferable i would think to the rest of the country let alone the residents of lansdowne(apart from the publican’s) as we wouldn’t need to go into the centre of dublin at all…this would free up traffic- well a bit anyway- in the centre.
sorry i thought you said earlier you were a student. as an architect it’s the developers that have control of the building trade. it’s all money driven. the rest of us are being paid to do what they want.
i don’t know about your statement about aesthetics. at the end of the day that is how most of the public will rate a particular building and letting a geography graduate decide is just plain crazy..50%…… don’t know where you got that stat.
i believe there is 1.5 m in the six counties and as a national stadium would cater for the whole isle then how would define 50% living in leinster… and just as a footnote..last time i checked westmeath was in leinsterwelcome to going to a match from anywhere else other than dublin…however in my case it’s the n4/n7 traffic jam……..
what you all don’t see is that people have been doing this for years while you just get the bus in from whatever suburb you live in…and as soon as it becomes a bother for you to get to a match you complain…. wake up and smeel the roses lads…..everyone of these options are going to be greeted with the same problems…just get it built
