GregF
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I bet our effort at Grand Central will be a far cry from the real thing…..all cavity blocks, exposed girders and emulsion paint.
I agree, Cork should have a tram/light rail system.
Also, I think once O’Connell Street is completed there should be no further roadworks for at least a millennium. The present redevelopment has been an arduous ordeal. The installalation of a Metro station would just cause further unnecessary turmoil in the vicinity for many more years.
I think the Carlton site should be kept as an entertainment venue of some sorts , whether it be theatre, cinema, concert hall, etc.. The shopping mall walkway could be incorporated into this too. I think it would not only add a mass of people to this part of the street but also a bit of glam too rather than just a train station. With the Carlton, the Savoy, the Ambassador and the Gate Theatre as well as a new metro in the decrepit east Parnell Street, it could be a bustling part of the city. (almost like London’s West End, ahem!)
@Paul Clerkin wrote:
They should actually take the opportunity to put it under the ILAC centre redevelopment or some other building due to be demolished and rebuilt
The east end of Parnell street could be ideal….this is a decrepit part of the city compared to its west side which has undergone massive redevelopment in recent years!
All this has a whiff of the ”Bertie Bowl” about it. I would’nt thrust that bloke Cullen after he squandered the 50 million on the unused electronic voting machines. The plan is ambitious and badly needed however.
I see that the For Sales signs have gone up in James Street area. Several plots are up for grabs, all part of the ‘Digital Hub’ project. Included are the last of some fine old Georgian buildings, which if cleaned up would keep the historical character of the street, ie the surrounding setting St Catherines Church. No doubt they will be subjected to the developers demolition balls. There is a lovely old red brick Guinness tower with green onion dome roof thats part of the redevelopment area too. I hope its not vandalised either.
Here’s Bastille Day in Paris. Is’nt it a mavellous spectacle for the city. Let’s hope Dublin can emulate it in some way next year. O’Connell Street with the Spire, the GPO, the new symmetrical layout and planting will look absolutely great as a backdrop. Go with the flow folks . Don’t let your conservatism get in the way.
Ah yes dc3, thats the one. Good one, Cheers!
(the fiercely frightening weapon of war the Pilatus training aircraft with propellars and all)
I think people are getting a little too deep about this. I don’t think you see the civic side to this which is what I am stressing. Public parades and pageants go hand in hand with the built civic environment since the dawn of civilization and good to see Dublin partaking in this.
(Anyway, sure why nor celebrate our nationality or history? whether how un-PC it may seem today. Why always cower and be ashamed of what we were and are today. Besides our society is not militaristic like our neighbours across the water, where a love of the army and war is more gung ho. On many occasions we have seen the Royal Marines marching band with bayonets fixed and the like, at sporting events and such simple things like village fetes etc. )
The parade to celebrate the UN Irish forces serving abroad a few years back was a great event for the city.
The Fouga Magisters are long retired and have been replaced by the ”state of the art ” Marchetti propellar aircraft. Very hi-tech indeed! The Allouette helicopters have been retired too and have been replaced by the Gazelle. Wooden rifle stocks are long gone too, replaced with the Steyr machine gun. 60 new MOWAG APCs replaced the Panhards in 2002.
The Irish Armed forces are still very much ”Dads Drmy” but a military parade will be great for the city, all the same.
Many countries partake in such, the Brits with countless parades , Trooping the Colour, etc… the French with Bastille Day; the Champs Elysee bedecked in French tri-colours. O’Connell Street, newly repaved will act as great backdrop for the occasion. Too bad as said by Niall we don’t have an air-force to perfom a fly past , painting the sky in green, white and orange.(Besides next year will be 90 years since the 1916 rising. Better the government do it rather than the Shinners in their black balaclavas and Doc Martins.)
Thomond Park wrote:Does the fact that a stadium is the biggest in this part of Europe really important?
QUOTE]Well ermmm, I was only stating a fact…….and sure why not that it is?
Does the fact that we don’t have a decent national stadium really important?
Heres a good link to check out folks…..http://www.worldstadiums.com
Check out the stadia in Ireland and the UK. Note the capacity of each stadium too.
Currently Croke Park is the largest by holding more people out of all the stadia in Ireland and the UK.
Sadly, the new Wembley will take the honour when it opens next year.This is the Bullring in Birmingham, like it or love it, it is equally whacky too. And we go on about the reserved protestant conservative English. They are years ahead of us when it comes to the visual arts and comtemporary architecture.
@PDLL wrote:
Architectural conservatism in Dublin??? Just a couple of images which might be of interest. All of the talk about how modern/high-rise buildings fit in with the Dublin skyline, reminded me of an art musuem built in Graz, Austria for when it was European capital of culture in 2003. If conservative southern Austrians can build and accept this amidst an absolute architectural paradise, why cannot Dublin manage a few nicely designed high-rises. Are we that conservative????
That building is whacky. But I agree Ireland has to be one of the most tight arsed, reserved, conservative, humourless, sexless places when it comes to contemporary architecture. Look at the new emerging Dublin docks, my favourite example. So much for Dublin been the parteeee city, looks morelike a tea party in a methodist churchyard.
Hopefully the likes of the new U2 tower, Calatrava’s 2nd bridge and the Lansdowne Road proposals, etc… will help to shed this image and fire the imaginations to produce more exciting architecture for Ireland.
