GrahamH
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Now that I have the chance, (sorry this is’nt in relation to your query) but the way on About the House that you always abrubtly cut off each item is really bad.
I’m sitting watching a section of the prog and suddenly you cut it off with Duncan saying “We’ll return to the O’ Reilly’s next week”. You need to give more of a lead up to the closing of each section, which is really a basic rule of television.Otherwise, the progs impressive, and I like the way Duncan utilises it to promote his own causes & architectural causes under the guise of home improvments etc, which otherwise RTE wouldn’t touch with a bargepole.
About the GPO Arcade, does it strike anyone as utterly bizarre the location of the arcade, or rather how/why it opens onto Princes St, which is little more than a back alley.
Did the Metropole or Capital cinemas use to have an entrance onto the st, as this would probably explain it. Even then, there seems little point to to locating its entrance there, unless Princes St led somewhere when the arcade was built in the late 20s/30s.
It’s a wonderful place though, I love all that sophisticated Edwardianish styling, the roof lights, cornicing etc.
Now now, Matt Talbot is’nt all that bad, it was the 70s after all. I think it is very sleek, slender and unobtrusive, although the road & paving leaves much to be desired.
The James Joyce is beautiful.
Thanks RTE for showing your usual contempt for architectural issues and dumping the documentary into the graveyard hours, always reliable. Indeed a REPEAT of the ‘State We’re In’ is being shown before it, such is the ignorance. If it was a minority interest religious production it would be on at 10.00 or earlier.
Was on the new Boyne Bridge & motorway today, what impressed me most was in fact the buildings made out of rubble stone at the main toll plaza – which are very impressive, obviously influenced by nearby Newgrange, very contemporary yet inspired by ‘the old’.
All of the motorway furniture, lamposts, railings, etc are all also impressive, very French and European, very streamlined etc.
About the ‘official illumination’, is this just the tip being lit or the entire sculpture, as there are still no floodlights on any of the surrounding buildings, on any, including the rooftops.
And under 3 weeks to go…
Anyone know whats going on infront of the GPO?
Plaza work, by any freak of nature?
Very informative, thanks.
Presumably the street facade was built in 1890 as the Loop Line was going in.And as far as I can make out, the mess of the front & back of the platforms being at different levels was caused by the increasing of height of all platforms in the country to a standard level. Usually the tracks were excavated to allow for this, but was’nt possible in Pearse because of the Loop Line bridge coming in.
At the back of the Station in the usual railway wastelands there are some wonderful Victorian lampposts just rusting away on the ground that could be put to use.
And in the roof of the station inside, I see IR are already replacing the original wooden ceiling slats with low maintainance plasticy sheets which are slid in under the ironwork.
Its a slippery slope.Ah, yes those dizzying years cruising along on the crest the Eurovision wave until the UK slashed it from under us in 1997.
Interesting that some of the best architecture built in this country during the boom years was RTE’s Eurovision sets, not least 1997 for those who recall, for those who don’t, just look to Latvia this year who blatently ripped it off – suffice to say, not not very well.
Considering architectural lighting dosn’t even exist in this country outside of Government Bldgs, there’ll be a hell of a lot of work for anyone remotely qualified.
One of the best series on British Television, (and one of the most gruelling to make!)
Duncan Stewart won’t be pleased at them invading his territory…
In a nutshell.
Still, the on-air presentation that year was excellent, it was the best set Eurovision had up till then, as was the Oirish promotion, all diddle aye links between songs, racing ariel shots of the ‘lush’ greenery etc
Helpful, anymore?
There just appears to be a complete blackout of information on this station.Poor old Pearse, its never been cared for.
Its always Heuston this, Heuston that, even Connolly gets the odd mention, but poor old Pearse, once a major terminus, now just a quick stop-off point, it never even gets a look-in.
Which is a pity, not just because of the amount of people who use it, but unlike other Dublin stations where one is rushed from a modern terminal onto a train, in Pearse you actually wait in the original building and are able to appreciate it’s architecture, not least the barrel vaulted ceiling which appears to be the only one in Dublin if not in the country.It’s just a shame the appalling state of the place, esp considering it was supposedly ‘redeveloped’ in 1996.
Indeed such is the dated state of the place that RTE purposely shot part of their ‘No Tears’ drama here, which was part set in 1976, because it hasn’t changed since then!The worst part is it’s entrance with all that ghastly orange and cream plastic cladding, and those horrible plasticy metally strips on the ceiling, broken up with floresent tubes.
And yet there are cast iron columns reaching up to the ceiling in places, and in one area you can just see the tail end of a wonderful Victorian decorative bracket peeking through, imagine how magnificent this place could look with all the tat stripped back, the original structure revealed and contrasted with some snazzy, hardwearing modern furniture and ticket machines etc.The lighting inside the main station is appalling, the usual Iarnrod murky orange lights casting their gloominess everywhere, and the outside facade should also be illuminated, along with Spar’s flat roof removed.
The whole interior needs to be gutted, platforms relaid, new layout and facilities hugely improved. This has been proposed since the mid 90s and there’s been no movement on it.
But at the same time I don’t want to see anything done – there’s so much potential here for fantastic redesigning and restoration, yet judging by the mess of Connolly, I don’t want Iarnrod Eireann to touch it with a bargepole!
They’re sure to make a bags of it – with nasty low maintance silver cladding, unfinished looking walls, tarnishing steel furniture, intrusive unsightly floolights etc.It needs expert attention from experts of restoration and development, not experts in the field of delayed, manky trains, surly staff and overcrowded services.
Concrete corinthian columns and PVC fanlighted doors are my personal favourite.
But ONLY if they’re flanked by fibreglass-reinforced resin, ‘cast iron’ lions.
Lovely.
Its not just floodlights, what about the ‘Victorian’ lanterns lining their unfinished driveways, and the 300w bulbs with coloured gels blasting up at their beloved cherub water features in the front garden?
Oh, oh, and the halogen spots placed at 3 inch intervals beneath the eaves of the house, and the the 3 arm lamp standards at the front door, and pretentious lanterns atop the gateposts (or alternatively illuminated eagles), all of which says more than words ever could…
Does the pattern on the base have planning permission?
This was not the pattern agreed until after Christmas, long after the High Court ruling, pp, the EIS and everything else.
This pattern is arguably a major deviation from the approved sculpture design, in my view it has significant impliations to the structure’s relationship with the GPO and the Street as a whole, ie, I think it makes a complete mockery of urban planning.
It would be very interesting to see if it has pp.
Yes, I saw the pictures, a truly spectacular place thats never been appreciated until now.
Russia’s backdrop was a river scene in Moscow (admittedly I don’t know what river) flanked by illuminated spires etc. They’ve used this for a number of years now.
How much would it have cost RTE to send out an OB unit to shoot a live scene from Dublin city centre.
(Dont start whinging over Cork, capitals have always been used by every country)
Well short of crawling along the bridge on my hands and knees checking each baluster, I’m afraid there are no names on the bridge.
However with the obvious exception of the large bronze comemorative plaques on each of the parapets, stating the date of the redevelopment of the bridge and the Hon Edmund Gray, Lord Mayor in 1880.
Perhaps this was confused with Edward Wild…
