hutton
Forum Replies Created
- Posts
Just seeing Franks photo reminds me how angry I get when I see the condition of that building. Its a flaming disgrace and leaves me spitting! 😡
To reply to the OPs question, the building was a protestant church in the Greek Revival style, circa 1810 – or there abouts.
The facade was “retained” whilst the rest, which was derelict, was knocked and thereafter that block was thrown up behind. No effort to tie-in or rehabilitate the facade with the new block, it was simply ignored:mad: . Obviously rehabilitation should have been conditional when the new dev was given the go-ahead. Again 😡
Im afraid thats all I got at the mo, thou Im sure Devin or Graham H will have all the details 😉@a boyle wrote:
can i start ….
Oh go on then, go for it !
*goes off to get popcorn in anticipation of spectating as archiheads rip into eachother*
😀
@penny wrote:
Hutton,
Explain to me, in your own view exactly what is wrong with “one-off” housing in the country? excuse my ignorance.Is it that you want everyone to live in towns/villages? or just you think they are ugly? I haven’t formed an opinion yet.
pennyHmmm Welcome to the Lions Den! 😀
First off, I dont think either of the polarised ends of this debate are particularly helpful. However, basically it is preferable if those working in an urban area live in an urban area. If someone is working in the countryside, then its another thing. However the worst scenario is when somebody builds their own “dream home”/ AKA Mc Mansion, and then drives to work in the city, while the dummy-mummy wife drives the kids to school in a jeep. Result: an inexcusable blot on the landscape, displaced community, state services such as health, schooling, and public services strecthed to being unworkable. Ireland now the 5th most oil-depedent sate in the world, per head, while many town centres are in decline.
However if you are planning to work in the countryside, and will look into building sustainably (ie no leaking septic tanks to begin with :rolleyes:) and are looking into incorporating the abode into the topography etc, thats a different story. It might be worth looking at using materials other than concrete for construction, wood, wattle, or straw – a lot less environmental impact, and much better thermal values. Also have a look at geo-thermal heating units etc.
A tip of genuine advice, if you are pursuing this route, have a look at the Green Building Handbook.
H
Hmmm…for the 2nd time in 2 days another new member sticks up a thread about building a one-off in the countryside….Somebody´s trolling;)
@a boyle wrote:
…People who build this kinds of houses are just bad people. You know its true…
Hmmm but we thought/ hoped that as they are doing a wood-chip burner that there might be something better 🙁 sniff, sniff…
And all the time we were just being lulled into a false sense of security 😮 …This is all just too subversive…It must be Paul C taking the piss 😉@a boyle wrote:
your house is as ugly as sin. If you want advice . knock it down.
😮 😀
Ah A Boyle, ye had to do it, didnt you? 5 posts in total and Purple 1703 has probably now retired for ever after such a savage mauling by the Fashionist style patrol that is archiseek members…snigger, snigger
BTW Whats all this about building 3 floors high; are there not enough McMansiions already being trown up?:confused:
Sorry I knew this waas going to be a case of *get popcorn* – they can be pretty vicious here on archiseek… Well best of luck with the wood chip stove anyway; Any other innovative aspects to it?
H
@Graham Hickey wrote:
I have to laugh in a way at this project, as it matches exactly what I expected would happen the second Heuston Gate and was passed. Just like PVC windows, the second an element of height is introduced to virgin territory, it catches on like wildfire and soon everyone’s clambering on ship. That’s all you need – that single spark of leniency, or perhaps even appeasement, in permitting height in an area, and off the train goes on its merry way.
I’d like to read the height survey commissioned by the CC – is it included in the city dev plan, or is it a separate entity? In spite of it, there still doesn’t seem to be a clearly defined vision for the skyline of Dublin. The goalposts keep changing.
Spot on.
Yeah he was certainly more cultured than the current incumbents. That said, he does not come out well in Destruction of Dublin. Equally and it must be noted that Raphael Burkes star rose under his tenure – with all the disasterous consequences that that had for planning in Ireland.
Haha Lol I knew what you were talking about even before I looked…Although the bit about “her unclad leg bent at a 45 degree angle” had got me hopeful:D
Last time I counted, there were about a dozen of these things in the enclave of 80s local authority houses that link Summerhill with Charles St, Dublin 1.
There must be an explanation; perhaps the Pat Noise as commemorated, is actually Patricia Noise and this is more of the same cult;)
Thats my theory anyway – Fr Pat Noise was Irelands first transexual, and despite the best efforts by the RC church to cover it up, a cult has always since existed, commemorating Patrica with these icons. :p
Just what Galway needs, another bungalow :rolleyes:
Are you seriously looking for comments/ architectural critique for that on this forum? 😀
Very amusing…
@malec wrote:
Wow, they definitely have balls to propose something like that. I’d like to see a proper render though before judging, in order to see the details of the design.
Anyway, I’ll give it a 99.5% chance…of it being axed that is. 😀
😀 snigger,snigger.
I hope youre right. A barking idea that would be cited in other proposals if it got the go-ahead.The proposed tower would rise 47 storeys from a podium, and yet John Moran, MPH’s development director, points to permission granted for a 12-storey tower nearby, and says “so we’re not the ones who broke the glass”???
😮Bonkers.
@StephenC wrote:
The point about the Botanic Road station is well made…it would be madness not to link the two lines at this point.
I also don’t understand why the RPA are developing Luas and Metro – because their brief is to develop new transport infrastructure – but Iarnrod Eireann are developing the Interconnector and Spencer Dock Station. Am I missing something? Aren’t these new infrastructure too? Surely the fact that we have so many cooks is one of the reasons why the city transport network (I use term loosely) is such a shambles.
And why the resistance to any talk of the Phoenix Park tunnel? There must be some rationale to it as it keeps cropping up …even if its only a temporary measure. Like the temporary Spencer Dock Station! What kind of planning is that….allowing a new station but only for 10 years when it will have tp be replaced! Honestly, there is no logic to any of this T21 rubbish. It sounds like something Martin Cullen put together on the back of an envelope. Although I am sure that was never the case!
Also where is this new “Dublin Transport Authority” we heard so much about. Not a dickybird since. The last I heard was that a business plan of sorts on what the DTA should actually do (after it having been created) was due by the summer. If it was so important that all this was in place to guide the development of T21 then why are all these agencies pushing ahead with their plans in such an ad hoc way.
Meanwhile the integrated ticketing project wallows in bureaucratic no-mans-land. Another union leader berating the lack of progress in the Times today.
Spot on. If they cant even integrate ticketing, what hope is there for the integration of vast projects ? 😡
@The Denouncer wrote:
Who should be on the plaque? Why, Fr. Ted Crilly of course!
Ah Denouncer you are not living up to your name…I was at least expecting you to denounce this thread, or the joke – the plaque, that is, not the labour party:D
@a boyle wrote:
There is one improvement i think we could all agree on. Close Suffolk street, make grafton street two way.
You have me sold on it anyway. Remove the outgoing bus stop outside the Provosts House and replace the taxi/loading rank with inbound stops – these would make up for the loss of stops on Suffolk St.
Next off – remove at least one traffic lane on both Westmoreland and D’Olier Sts, and put in place purpose built bus bays. Imo the bus areas should be on the left side of each of the streets, with a median seperating them from the rest of the traffic; what say?
@beolight wrote:
thanks for that flash of enlightment:confused:
anybody got any constructive ideas.
Ah sorry couldnt resist it :p
Maybe try a computer shop, or alternatively try posting a message on boards.ie under their computer section?
H
The crusading left have at last latched on to an issue of great importance…and so have put up a website looking for suggestions as to what should be done with the Pat Noise plaque. So far there are more than 100 replies!
From: http://www.oconnellbridge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2
The Dublin South East Labour Party invite your suggestions for the proposed new plaque on O’Connell Bridge.
The recent removal of the “Father Noise” plaque (placed there as part of an art experiment) has made space for a new plaque to be erected on O’Connell Bridge. Who or what should it comemmorate? A person of significance to Dublin? A symbol to recall an important event in Dublin’s history? Should any plaque be placed there at all?
All (suitable!) submissions made here will be presented to the Arts Committee of Dublin City Council.
With best regards,
Ruairi Quinn TD, Cllr Kevin Humphreys, Cllr Dermot Lacey, Cllr Mary Freehill, Cllr OisÃn Quinn, and all the Labour Party Group on Dublin City Council.
