GregF
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True……and as it ‘s getting large gatherings of people are not encouraged by the Corpo and the Gardai, remember the shamefull fiasco about giving the Irish soccer team a calvacade through the city centre after the World Cup. Instead every body was shunted up to the Phoenix Park. What’s the purpose of having the likes of Smithfield at all.
Presumably it will co-incide with the O Connell Street Revamp……would be good if they removed that tar surface and repaved O’ Connell Bridge too just like Capel Street Bridge……what a lovely job they did on that…….and the lights on that got a great makeover too.
May not be able to light it now due to government cutbacks….will be lit for when it is first opened and for Xmas too but after that, darkness will reign upon the land…….may not have the money to replace the bulb.
Gas to see me fellow Dubs went bonkers last night on Halloween……..the gaelic barbarian tribalist customs celebrated…..bonfires, knifings, robbings, poisonings and drunken debauchery etc…..and that was just the kids. God only knows what went on outside the Pale.
Gas to see there were firebrigades stoned down Macken Street…………Is’nt this is where Calatrava’s other bridge is proposed and the locals ……..civically enlightened and all objected to it.The eduction of Irish people of the civic urban environment around us and how to behave in it is indeed greatly needed.
That’s a point which architects don’t seem to consider of how buildings appearances age with time and how they will stand up to the weather and the elements.
Much more bright sexy shiny glass needed in contemporary buildings here…….hold the red brick and pebble dash.Are’nt they f******g horrible………….now it’s not because some of the residents have lowered the tone of them……..but the dark cheap scorched brick, the way they ignorantly and jarringly address the streets….., adds to the ugliness of these kips.
What a mess…..put these on the demolition list too.
And they are found everywhere too in inner city Dublin…..Gardiner Street, Queen Street, Mountjoy Street/Bolton Street, Camden/ Wexford/ Montague Street, Constitution Hill, Fatima Mansions….etc, etc….. What a disasterI’m all in favour of trees and nature …………but O’Connell street at one stage was indeed over grown with trees including new saplings …..the island in the middle of the road was like a jungle with no coherent planting……….if anything it needs thinning out. Gormley is an idiot……a more suitable tree to an urban scape will be planted instead in the guise of Lime trees. If Gormley wants trees how about he advocate tree planting in the featureless Irish rural landscape particularly the boring midlands….etc
I bet they’ll build appartments there ……cramped and red brick and reeking of retro fantasy……..a big eyesore no doubt…..aka Blot on the Landscape, and to think IM Pei could have put a pyramid there……. We’ll just get a run of the mill over priced appartment scheme……for people who think they understand and like the modern arts……helping finance mismanager bogger Charlie McCreevy to pay off the national debts……where’s John Callery again to save the day and rile everyone up.
The Bertie Bowl will then be probably built……hurray, says I….we are not that backward then!
…….and we said YES to Nice too…….things are looking up ……..there is a dog…………I mean god.Calatrava is a good guy……..his designs are quite beautiful ….even if they have become formulaic……but in years to come we will be able to boast that we have two Calatrava bridges in Dublin. We cannot do that now regarding notable architects/engineers of the past…..well bar the odd one or two. Would’nt it be great if we could boast today that we had an Isambard Kingdom Brunel bridge spanning the Shannon………….and a Charles Rennie Macintosh……and a Corbusier….and a Mies Van der Rohe…….etc, etc……..it’s what makes cities of note.
If private investors are to part with their hard earned money….ahem!…. every possible location will be considered no doubt so as the best returns will be acheived. They will not build the stadium in an isolated field……..however if that location is to be an epi-centre or hub for sporting activity… aka Sports Campus Ireland, well then Abbotstown will be strongly considered.
Remember a city centre location may meet opposition from the super sensitive locals.
(I remember seeing on the news recently opposition to Croke Park’s activities from the locals and those that spoke out were not Dubs but had country accents……This is a city not the countryside)To think that 23 private developers applied ……what enthusiasm…..maybe we could get a couple of stadia out of them as well as the redevelpment of Landsdowne Road and the National Conference Centre…..after all it’s how they built America.
I thought of the threat of vandalism too in the guise of graffitti and the threat of joyriders ploughing a car into it’s base. Could possibly happen given that when anything new is erected it is always subjected to wanton vandalism by the great unwashed and unenlightened. See the way new sapling trees always seem to have their necks snapped by the little morons.
See this regularly meself……..looks as if it’s getting a Post Modern makeover extension……..it can only look more worse than what was there. Where’s John Callery.
Aye……….but the ‘Des Res’ that are already there are not of a high design standard……morelike cannon fodder…….. aka infill………aka throw up any old shit but cram as much cramped appartments into a space and give it a fancy name like Viking Harbour or Clipper Court………..as in where are An Taisce and the Green Party to complain when it really matters most…….(they only focus on high profile schemes for publicity…….aka shallow people)
The surrounding environment is in a disgraceful condition…..look at house where James Joyces short story the Dead is set. This was supposed to get a make over by Heritage Properties a couple of years ago. Look at the condition of the other Georgian buildings …..one is used as a mechanics garage ……(only in Ireland I suppose)
I came from a background of such ‘types’ ……an area of Dublin which suffered abject poverty and neglect -Ballyfermot……. and I had a sister who lived in Fettercairn in the early 80’s….I was long enough on the dole too……but we had a bit of dignity one could say. We did’nt go theiving, wrecking public property or other peoples property….one tried as best to maintain one’s home with what meagre resources we had at the time. Thank god things got better and there was a plentiful of work to be found with the boom. Hold the violin strings please…..and don’t shed a tear…….but is it not patronising of such people to think that they always have to be guided through life like a child.
