GrahamH
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El architino’s detailed elevation plan is all you’ll ever need
https://archiseek.com/content/attachment.php?s=&postid=16709
Anyone notice recently that it’s mast has been chopped down to a more palatable size?
Still not sure if it looks better or worse now.You have a point about the restoration.
I was surprised to see them broken – esp on the southside, in a business area, and in a park that closes before dark!
Saw these as well – passed a few minutes ago and the entire interior of that side of the building is completely gutted, its all being overhauled inside, with plasterboard etc going up.
Don’t know what’s going on though.
I don’t know if they are supports or just some sort of scaffolding outside – didn’t look that hard. Just assumed it was ‘building stuff’.Virtually every one of these lamps in Merrion Square was smashed a couple of years ago – don’t think they’ve been repaired since.
And they all have big plasticey CFL bulbs in them – which look awful. The Mansion House’s lanterns have had the same treatment.I agree about the traffic island posts – they’re a joke.
Admittedly I criticised them before for not being painted, with the steel left exposed, but they wern’t finished, so I take that back – but not like the current situation is any improvement! And since when did Victorian streetlamps have frosted glass panels?!
The railings etc on this island generate such clutter right outside Newman House – the place is a mess when seen from the Green side.These same silly lanterns have just been installed on the recently beheaded posts on North Earl St – a particular favourite feature being the gold finials adorning their undersides. These lanterns are about as historically accurate or original as Bachelors Walk – only worse.
Whatever about indulging in the reproduction of styles from the past in places where they never existed in the first place – to then churn out the most shoddy and cumbersome piles of rubbish off the production line is just insulting – not least for the Ha’penny Bridge where they’ve also been slapped – where the lanterns are an integral feature of the structure.They’re cropping up all over the city – its getting scary.
Saying that – a most charming lamp has popped up recently just outside the end of Pearse St Garda Station – it has one of the small Hammond Lane posts (Grafton St type) with a big Victorian-styled lantern on it that’s just slightly lop-sided, for added quaintness – it fits in perfectly with the stone station behind.
If ever you’ve seen Dana’s music video for her Eurovision entry (don’t worry, I saw it on ‘Reeling in the Years’) where she’s walking around the city centre in the 70s, you can see all of the concretes lining Westmoreland St etc, just before they were replaced by those infamous floodlights.
(the BOI is manky as well)The ones on D’Olier St match perfectly the sombre stock bricks of the Irish Times terrace.
I’m such an weirdo in that these lamposts are arguably my first memory of Dublin, esp the ones infront of Trinity’s accomodation block facing onto Pearse/D’Olier St, they create such a gritty urban scene contrasting with the blacked facade of Trinity.
Moving swiftly on – the ones on Baggot St have been replaced by double headed silver Victorian repros – although they’re not accurate as the Victorians never made this type in a double-headed form – still, very nice.
I see on Stephens Green no attempt is being made to reinstate the original silver columns, or even to put in nice modern specimens.
Right now the CC are installing EXACTLY the same crappy 70s posts that they’re replacing!
Whatever about the asthetics – talk about a waste of public funds – the only difference with the new posts is that they’re a bit cleaner than the old!
Take a look if anyone’s passing on the east side – the old and new are standing side by side.Part of the restoration of the museum is the reopening of the ‘back entrance’ permanently.
I say ‘back’ like that as ironically this was originally planned to be the main entrance for the musuem.
It was planned that Kildare Place be a major civic space for the Victorians – with potentially another institution to be built to surround the square.
There was a big Victorian pile of a building eventually built on the site of the Dept of Agriculture – now that I think of it, wasn’t there two Georgian houses on the site of the Govt Bldgs wall, that were demolished in the late 50s – largely considered to mark the beginning of the destruction of the Georgian city.
Interesting that the NCH is mentioned – the Italinate tower of the former Exhibition Building/Winter Palace – now the NCH – was moved to Kildare Place to act as a boiler chimney for Govt Bldgs – it was later removed as it poised a security risk to the complex.Very true – and of course Greenore was a major port in the 19th century, and a holiday destination for the Edwardians, and was also served by the station.
Its fantastic today then that the largest town in the country has such a befitting station – contrasting markedly with Drogheda’s situation.The tree lights went on this afternoon – the usual silly looking vertical strings stretched from top to bottom like they’re trying to strangle the tree. Grafton St has the same treatment.
I see Gladstone’s been unwrapped from his binliner wrappings – looking decidedly refreshed after his long break encased in sheets of chipboard whilst the excavations were underway. He needs a good clean now.
Poor old Fr Matthew has had the tops of all his fingers chopped off – prob been like this for some time.
The towers of darkness mentioned – the steel strips atop the joins of their pyramids turn dazzlingly bright when seen in the setting sun from College St, unbelievably bright.
How bizarre – I passed the place barely an hour ago thinking exactly the same thing!
Surely the wall can be moved back – it would appear there’s only a yard or something behind it.
The museum is looking stunning now, a new building has emerged from the shadows.Three years after its first publication ‘Building for Government’ by the OPW is still costing a whopping €56.80 in Hodges Figgis!
Beautiful & informative though.
Like this bridge, very architectural.
Which is more than can be said for the housing around it – I think red and brick are the only words necessary to evoke the standard shudders.
The LEDs are to be mended today (Monday)
Has to be done before dark because an unlit Spike constitutes an aviation hazard apparently.
So to save time they’re not taking the original lighting down (which would take 3 hours) but instead, putting up ‘spare’ lighting to be used instead of the originals which are to be left in situ.What an unholy mess.
At least they workers showed up on time – saw them working on it this morning at 9.15.
They’re dealing with the problem exclusively from the base – going up wasn’t an option.Someone I know said it used to be great in the 70s and 80s – but now ‘they’re all Kathleen Watkins types’
Really?
Obviously I need glasses – then again I do pass only one side of it – not that it has sides of course.
Think its fair to say though that it hasn’t sufferered the horror stories predicted like spray graffiti etc – although the sneaky damage as you mention is arguably more offensive.Saw the new front today – I agree about the black painted MDF effect – but the windows are fantastic – massive!
There’s nothing like them in the city – only critisim is there’s no relief between window and wall, hence the ground floor looks very flat in comparison with the upper floors.
