GrahamH
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Where does the tunnel emerge at Connolly at the moment?
Another ludicrous feature of Connolly is how you have to get off the Enterprise service at the far end of the station, walk the whole way down its massive platform, then all the way back up the other side to get the DART, also resulting in terrible congestion in the mornings.
I’m surprised the Victorians never built a footbridge or underpass, God knows all the work THEY undertook is the only saving grace of our network 160 years later.
Its unbelivable, reading about the development of Luas from its inception, how each government meddled in its plans delaying the project, changing the purpose of the project etc etc – for short term political gain.
The same can be said for our railways, there is never any long term vision.
Ever.I must admit to liking the corner office building also, however not the steel grids that have been attached to catch the falling masonry to which I was referring.
The building has a wonderful transparent quality to it, with the glass continuing around the street corner, and the red cladding is distinctively muted and appropriate.Still, it merely adds to the elimination of a distinctive historic character to the street.
About Setanta, you really must see the view from the grounds of Trinity, it is unbelivable how this building got the go ahead when viewed from here, its massive! Its double the height of the streetscape when the part thats stepped back from the main facade is taken into account.
I thought the proposed conference centre design was awful.
It was grossly out of scale with the city, and I don’t mean the ‘here we go again height debate’, it was massively overscaled in every manner with no human scale to it at all, nothing but a statement of arrogance.Thank God this mammoth of a project, not to mention Spencer Dock as a whole wasn’t inflicted on this city.
High density does not equal vulgarity.
No idea!
North Earl St is looking very fine with all of its overflowing hanging-baskets.
Top marks CC!I passed Charlie getting into his Merc outside Goverment Bldgs on Monday, and cringe shock horror – its only a 1991!
Its been proven that if you close roads, for works etc, traffic can actually reduce by around 20%, ie, diverted traffic takes other routes but 1 in 5 cars just disappear altogether!
The epitome of the breeze-block brigade, that concrete box in Firhouse is now much loved by its parishners, not least because its so different from everywhere else.
I saw the bronze base of it on Monday, it was manky with all of the ridges full of dirt & cigarette butts.
The symmetry of the facade – what little there is of it, would suggest it to be a house, as would the size of the window spaces, which are quite substantial.
The corrugated roof could be concealing where the chimney was positioned.
Similar cafes etc on the new proposed boardwalk at Eden Quay would help a lot in drawing tourists (& citizens) over to the east for once, down to the Custom House area – and help improve this neglected quay as well.
Very true.
St Patricks in Dundalk is a wonderful Gothic revival, late Georgian cathedral, modelled on Kings College in Cambridge, and its magnificent bell-tower acts as a wonderful beacon for the town from a distance.
I thought rather than just slapping up an image of Sackville Mall, I’d make up a little picture compilation of how the buildings have ‘developed through the centuries’ – as an estate agent would say.
So there are 5 pictures (don’t worry, they’re small)
1. The corner buildings in 1750, note how the first building is 5 windows wide before a jump in parapet level with the next building.2. Same buildings in 1818, this time a more accurate image, where we can see the pitched roof.
3. In the 1950s, note the Victorian oriel window added.
4 & 5. 2003 and oh dear, Joe Walsh tours, pink window dressings & ‘Come in & Visit’ alive & well.
Still – note the same parapet levels as evident 250 years ago, and the same amount of windows.Note how fantastic a decent carved wood shopfront would look here wrapping around the corner, & the building repainted etc.
Theres another classic Victorian pub, on the outside at least on Pearse St that’s really fantastic, its 3 storeys, with deep eaves and all round-topped sashes intact.
(just though I’d throw that in)I agree that Frank is rather muted in his piece, maybe thats just in comparison with the outbursts on this thread!
Just about the paving at its base, there is little point in complaining about it being concrete, and that it will only be ripped up again in a few months, -ifthere was nothing but poured tarmac there as a temporary measure, we’d all be going nuts! I retract my earlier critisims of this aspect of the project.
(Thats not to say the whole project could’nt have been coordinated better so as to avoid such half hearted measures)Tee hee, very topical.
I saw the premiere as well, all I could see was Fingal looming in the background, a wonderful open space – no hang on – the derilict site beside it, 200,000 tacky CFL bulbs adorning the flat 60s canopy of the Savoy, and a manky upper facade that badly needs a scrubbing.
(And I hope whoever rolled up the red carpet at the end was wearing rubber gloves, one can only imagine the joys of its underside after an evening sprawled across an O’ Cll St pavement)
Ah yes, sarcasm the lowest form of wit, take the easy option & be cynical etc
I know, I know, I just can’t resist it.I’ll try get the picture of Sackville Zap, (courtesy of the Sunday Times last week)
It is, to say the least, an highly idealised picture of the St, all of the parapets are as straight as an arrow, not a pitched roof in sight, and even though every house had 60 million fieplaces, each property in the picture has a single tiny Leinster House chimney perched atop.
Still, all of the buildings appear to be accurate, including the one on the Henry St corner.
