Frank Taylor
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@stira wrote:
why not just build another bridge beside it and let us choose whether we want to pay a toll or not! dont know how much that little bridge would cost but alot less than buying those crooks out!
because the contract between NTR and the state grants NTR the exclusive right to toll traffic between the N3 and N4 junctions in exchange for maintaining this section of road and paying the state a share of the takings.
Building a new bridge would breach this contract and leave the state open to being sued. There is no way out other than to stay with NTR for the next 15 years or buy them out of the contract.
The question is why this contract seems so generous and whether correct procedures were followed when it was awarded.
What did we learn from this episode or will we find ourselves buying out other toll operators for billions in the future?
How successful will a public information campaign be at reaching those most likely do spit out chewing gum on the street? I’d guess children and antisocial adolescents are the least influenced by do-good government information campaigns.
Sony understood this by advertising their games machine using the format of an anti-drugs ad put out by the Society Against PlayStation (SAPS).
Lets repeal the plastic bag tax and run ads on TV imploring people to do without.
Does anyone know why some pillar boxes have had cuboid rucksacks added? Postboxes are 3D symbols of the postal service and the message they send out is ‘we just don’t care’.
@KerryBog2 wrote:
Lutyens’ grand-daughter and her architect hsuband have a design business in London, walked by it in Knightsbridge last year. They could tell you, I’m sure. Ned’s “star” lanterns are sold everywhere in Marrakesh, great value,
KB2Good stuff. http://www.lutyens-furniture.com/
@Rory W wrote:
It’s a very very poor example of 60’s architecture at it was “designed” prior to the 1963 planning regulations
There were planning laws pre 1963, including planning schemes for Dublin. I was wondering how this building was permitted under these older rules.
Is there a book on the 20th century planning history of Dublin pre-1963?
Why is this building worse than any other cuboid office block of the same height? Not shiny enough? No pyramid on the roof?When it is knocked, will it not be replaced by something that is essentially the same yet shinier?
@dodger wrote:
I honestly cannot comprehend for one second (and i’ve tried) how anybody could see the slightest redeeming factor in hawkins street house. Some people like the loop line, some the screen college green, but how anybody can think this building acceptable is beyond me.
It’s very well located and must have good views. I’d be happy to live or work there.
Is this building brutalist?
Anyone know the story of how it got planning permission? Was permission granted around the same time as O’Connell Bridge House?
I think jimg is referring to “Gallery Quay”
With any composition, there is a balance between uniformity while avoiding tedium and contrast without creating a mess.
At one end of the spectrum is Dublin Airport, with disconnected buildings seemingly scattered at random across the site. The other extreme is somewhere like Darndale whose fundamental repeating unit is a very plain uninspiring house. These untis were then laid out in perpendicular geometric patterns like a circuit board. (image attached below)
This development doesn’t look so bad to me and is much better than the IDA young offenders prison across the road.
@Rusty Cogs wrote:
In fairness the footfall on Grafton St. would make the building & operation of Luas a nightmare. It was pedestrianised 20 years ago for good reason.
Was it pedestrianised because of the high footfall or did the footfall come about after pedestrianisation?
What about pedestrianising Chatham Row, Clarendon Street, South WIlliam Street and WIcklow Street?
All of these streets seem to have been sacrificed to access roads for the Brown Thomas car park. With two new undeground lines delivering customers by the thousand to Stephen’s Green, more luas stops in the area and existing car parks on Drury Sreet, Stephen’s Green and Andrews Lane, is this car park really worth it?
Plot ratios would depend on where your site in Tallaght is located (village centre, housing estate, outer fringe) and are taken from central government guidelines as follows:
http://www.environ.ie/DOEI/DOEIPol.nsf/0/1829f4edf25b12b380256f5d004dd108/$FILE/1489residential.pdfRange is from .25 to 2.5
http://www.dit.ie/DIT/news/grangegorman/
Site is 65 acres+, compared to Trinity’s 40 acres.
DIT is currently spread between a a number of sites totalling 11 acres.I can’t see how the site could be full unless they are laying it out as bungalows.
It’s surprising and gladdening that O’Callaghan cares to answer this criticism. I presumed his sole interest was profit. Then again maybe he just doesn’t like criticism of any kind.
Has Liam Carroll ever bothered to answer criticism of Zoe developments pokey flat blocks?
Statoil garage will be listed in a few years if nobody gets it together to knock it down. Classic 80s toytown architecture.
It’s a funny place to buy petrol at night, queuing up for ages behind the locals buying skins and lucozade sport from the hatch. For a while someone altered the street sign to PUshers Quay
I thought of the Inchydoney Island Hotel when I read this.
A massive kip in a beauty spot. Don’t know how it got planning permission.
The building and apartments beside have a creepy familiarity about them. They look like half the one-off houses built in the last 10 years around the country, only bigger. Even the interiors, the coving , the skirting boards, the carpets, the bathrooms all seem to come from the same builders provider. A lot of pale yellow paint used.
Swimming pool’s nice though.
edit: here’s a photo
http://www.rems.ie/images/Inchydoney.jpg@dodger wrote:
Does anybody know the furture of the loop line bridge after the interconnector is finished? I expect they will retain it even though it seems like a glorious opportunity to consign the scar that it is to the bosca bruscar of history!
Loopline bridge will be used by maynooth line trains that will pass through connolly, tara, pearse and on south along the coastal dart. So you will be able to board at Clonsilla and alight at Dun Laoghaire without changing train.
http://www.platform11.org/campaigns/extendthedart/what_is_the_drp.php@Sue wrote:
Riddle me this – especially any engineers out there!
If they build a hole the size of Grand Central Station under Stephen’s Green, do they (a) take the soil out at the Green and take it away by lorry, presumably up Leeson Street or (b) start tunnelling at the airport and ship all the soil from under the Green all the way up the 18km tunnel and then take it away by lorry? :confused:
Metro stations are dug out and constructed first. Tunnelling machine is then driven through them to connect them. So the spoil must be removed by road.
