GregF
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Anyone see the programme last night on RTE 1 about Laura Mahey, the Galway lass and business woman who spear headed the development of Temple Bar, and the failed Bertie Bowl and Mater Hospital redevelopment. In hindsight, pity that those old Georgians along the quay were demolished, for what is there now looks an eyesore, as they poorly maintained, the white paint filthy.
Now under different management, would anyone class Temple Bar as a success now after all these years. It kinda has lost its sparkle I think. Does anyone now if they have still the Halloween Parade and fireworks or has this died a death too.
Now that Smithfield is complete it hasn’t really become a new Temple Bar as such either.
I see at long last that the much neglected Dorset Street is being repaved in parts with an island being placed in the middle of the road. A much needed improvement.
If that’s what the finished articles are gonna look like either side in the picture well then they look shite. The Point Tower looks stumpy and very isolated. I’ve given up on the Dublin Docks!
@Devin wrote:
Here’s one for the list hutton.
In Ranelagh you start to see the vernacular architecture of a country town. But it has also just recieved a standard country-town new building … an engineer-designed, white PVC-guttered, brown PVC-windowed, arseways-roofed ‘traditional’ building 🙁 :
.Look at the DIY Signwriting on the shoe shop too ….euggh!…..Sums up the attitudes of many shopsowners in Ireland …aka amateurs.
Duncan had an article on this and the rest of the docks on About the House on RTE on Tuesday night. The docks content looked good overall. They had the DDDA big nobs on too who talked about the U2 tower and the Point Depot proposals.
It has been announced that the new stadium will hold a major soccer match.The UEFA Cup final will be held in Dublin in 2010. A good incentive too, to get the thing built all the more quicker.
Don’t forget too King Billy’s mush is on the Lord Mayor of Dublin’s gold chain. The Lord Mayor of Dublin’s coach is a briiliant left over too. All these symbols are part of our history and as has already been said shouldn’t be removed. There’s a little part of Brit blood in all of us. The Gaelic revival as wel as partial Irish independence gave precedence to this Gaelic aspect of Irish history to enhance our national identity when we were a somewhat broken and battered isolated people.
I hope they put the plaque back that marked the spot where Thomas Barnado was born. Barnado reknowned in Ireand and the UK as having founded the society for children’s welfare….”Barnado’s”.
(and he was an Orangeman too by the way! )Doninick Street flats are among the worst in Dublin. They look horrible and deserve a makeover.
Parnell Street is unrecognizable now with the street fully filled in on both sides. I remember when it was one big surface level car park in the late 1980’s. It’s a 100% improvement now.
The more I see this new building …the more I view it as a ”quirky” new addition to the city. It looks so awkward and ”quirky” that it must be loved in a sympathetic and understanding way….just like an unwanted puppy or kitten that is the unattractive runt of the litter.
I think this new building is a hotch potch of styles. It looks ill fitting and will look even moreso as the years go by. The glass front bit looks mad against the windows. The crane arm jutting out is rediculous and serves no purpose, the blank wall facing the plaza is rather ignorant, the odd looking dome which harks backs to older days topping it off. The emerging plaza doesn’t look much either , no pattern or colour in the paving or even a piece of sculpture. Should stick the 3 statues of the dames back here. Kinda a new ugly building overall really…looks as if it was designed by students.
Woo hoo! ……is that all only 30 appeals.
I will gladly swap my home in Ballyfermot with anyone living in the Lansdowne Road area if they feel rather peeved about the new stadium proposal.
Gardai ineptness…
It’s crazy the way the city can be allowed to be handed over to scumbags, hence no seating on O’Connell Street.
I see that 2 glass panels have been broken awhile on the James Joyce bridge. No sign of them being replaced.I was at the Dubs game on Saturday and whilst admiring the stadium thought that it has to be one the of best assets the country’s got in recent years. The stadium is so spacious and roomy too and the view of the pitch is excellent. Pity that the railway line intrudes at te Hill 16 end with the new Nally stand and flag poles that are plonked here looking kinda awkward. But Croker looks great overall and looks even better when there’a full house and the Hill and the Stands are packed to the rafters.
BTW, the largest attendance for a field sport at a ground in Europe this year was not in Germany during the World Cup finals, nor was it the Heineken Cup final at Cardiff, (despite that the jubillant Munster fans would have filled the stadium 3 time overs), nor was it English or Scottish FA Cup finals, but Croker of course, when the Dubs played Offaly for the Leinster title and the attendance was over 80,000. Not bad for a so called amateur sport either. It will be great when the Irish Soccer and Rugby teams play there next year.
The Street is kinda sterile, and look it too. It really needs something to make it welcoming. The superb paving acts as a good basis but it needs more in the way as whats already been said …..kiosks, information stands, seating, soft planting; something that will interact will the public. Barry Flanangan’s giant hare sculptors kinda do that now……people sit around the bases of the sculptures chatting etc….taking a breather. And will they ever enforce a law against grotty looking premises.
Hooray! This is great news that it got the go ahead. No doubt there will be many appeals. They shouldn’t heed them but go ahead and build the damn thing. Croker was built and rightly so too despite the objections from the locals who are mainly working class. In the this instance, a bunch of middle class objectors shouldn’t be given any preferential treatment. If anything the new Landowne redevelopment will add value to their property. Fuck ’em, the country needs the stadium.
