GrahamH
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Just get rid of those flippin trees, and poor old Moore on College St, I think the city has forgotten him – hidden away under his leafy canopy.
Although to give credit to the CC, the trees on College Green have been purposly pruned so they have very tall trunks and small canopies to allow as much of a view of Trinity & the BOI as possible.There’s only a totally over-grown platform left at Castlebelligham, not even any buildings, very spooky to see it now – hardly noticable.
Dunleer is very much intact – I too heard of its proposed re-opening – esp with that disgusting rezoning decision made recently for the area.
There’s also a new station to be built just before Howth Junction I think, just on the outskirts of the city – there’s a massive housing dev planned for around it. There’s signs up along the track for commuters to see.
Leave the chromakey alone!
It was fun for its time – all broadcasters meddled with this new-fangled technology then – still, its pretty laughable now alright!
Had to laugh at this, there’s been tarmac on the Henry St area for months if not years, and they dig it up in the weeks running to Christmas – you’d wonder, really.
Saw the poles – very snazzy.
Also impressed at how undamaged the base of the Spike is – people are literally to afraid to touch it for fear of attack from the public (or more likely the Guards outside the GPO)
The Clery’s christmas trees are fantastic as always – the best christmas sight in Dublin for many years.
Passed down the st last night and another big hole being dug outside the Sony Centre (beside Clerys) has revealed what would appear to be the original Wide Streets Commision paving from around 1800.
There’s a line of wide kerbstones at the bottom of the pit about a metre from the surface – interestingly though no paving slabs.
Admittedly for all I know these could have been laid here by the contractors, but they appear to be very old, and the slabs are quite small, smaller than many of the later Victorian ‘antique paving’ kerbstones seen elsewhere in the city.
It looks like they’ve just been excavated, the workers were all standing around looking at them and on phones etc – then again they’re always doing that…Boring! (design)
And their wide, stoutness further diminishes their ‘landmarkness’. staggering downwards creating a crude Irish version of the Sears Tower.
Tall, elegant and slender please!I think its true to say it will be either the worst or best thing to happen in this country.
One of the extraoridinary facts about it will be that if built, it will stretch from the new Swords interchange of the M1 – just finished, on both sides of the motorway – to Balbriggan!Apparently one of the major backers in the project are to make themselves known today (19th)
And what apartments have to do with a theme park…
Very odd indeed – I don’t know if they’re going ahead, heard no mention of them at all.
Suppose it must be remembered that althought the tree plans etc are still correct, these images to date from 1998.Oops – forgot about the other corridors, incl the one running into the old canteen.
I think most people would prefer the new building simply by being bedazzled by its newness, rather than its external design quality.I agree about the lack of openable windows, but this was a common feature of buildings of the 60s when air conditioning cost nothing.
The corridors that run along the windows are downstairs & are recent infill & shouldn’t be there anyway.I much prefer the older building it is perfectly scaled in terms of the height of the windows to columns. I love the sweeping of the columns into the distance also.
The interior is apallingly dated & is in need of a massive overhaul, some corridors upstairs still have the original floor tiles, all uneven with miles of cabling running beneath. It is largely this reason that employees hate the building.In contrast I hate the new building, a bog-standard mid-nineties pile of blah architecture.
(atrium’s nice though!)Lots of detailed info in the first few pages of
http://www.dublincity.ie/profile/publications/iap/oconnellfullacapdf
(Area Conservation Plan)They’re alright now – since the licence fee increase.
It was proposed to sell off some lands to the rear, and perhaps move admin to a more low cost base but the RTE Authority were not at all in favour of such a move (and rightly so).
It was never really going to happen though – just the papers revelling in the broadcaster’s misfortune – most knew the increase was on its way – consolation for Sile de Valera’s stranglehold on the organisation.They’re alright now – since the licence fee increase.
It was proposed to sell off some lands to the rear, and perhaps move admin to a more low cost base but the RTE Authority were not at all in favour of such a move (and rightly so).
It was never really going to happen though – just the papers revelling in the broadcaster’s misfortune – most knew the increase was on its way – consolation for Sile de Valera’s stranglehold on the organisation.The 3000w you refer to what? is presumably that everything is so bright.
Its cause the newsroom is so small, its ceiling is only 14-15 feet high, hence the lighting is a bit intense to say the least, being so close to the subjects.
Its upstairs in the Television Centre, hence the ceiling height is the same as the office space around it – which is silly. Should use one of the studios downstairs.
To relate this all to architecture, the TV Centre is fantastic, a Miesian pile of aggregate columns and glass – as is the Admin Building and the Radio Centre – award winning at that.Yes!
I still can’t belive this is staying – I thought it was an undercoat for about two weeks!
Its truly, truly unbeliveable – not least considering the station is otherwise painted with an elegant deep green.
