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yep, i agree about the lighting on the bridges, and who picked those colours? green and orange look awful, very naff….
I think blue would have looked much better under the the arches and then a clear white light for the outside faces of the bridges.
Capel Street has only five pubs at the moment. Starting at the river, you have Nealon’s and GUBU on the first junction and then the Boar’s Head on the next, then Slatterys and the Four Seasons at the very top of the street, though technically, it may be on North Kins Street, i’m not sure exactly.
The site in question has a planning application lodged by O’Mahony Pike, if its the site i’m thinking of. So who knows, maybe we could get a pretty good job on this one.
i think the colour may be part of the obtrusive nature of the project.
I know that the “brilliant white” they have used on the bridge may look great in a hot bright climate, but here in dublin, it can be too harsh and really doesn’t weather that well.
what would people think of a softer colour?
What about off-white?…or even heading into the darker blue-greys perhaps?
I had already posted in the “spike ” forum before I found this one about the stainless steel, so thanks to the miracle of “Copy & Paste”, I’ll add it in here, which maybe is the proper home for it……..
I went down over lunch to see the base of the spire , now that it has finally been unwrapped. It looks kinda strange, and was causing a lot of comment from passers-by.
There is a pattern on the lower section of the base rising up to about 6 metres or so. I remember reading that this was derived from the patterns of the soil in the test bores that were done at the start of the project. I have to say the pattern looks awful….. very nasty actually. It looks as though the wrapping got stuck to the surface and then pulled off the finish when it was being unwrapped. I know that this isn’t the case, as the matt finish is shot-peened, not applied as a film, but that is what it appears like, and now since lunchtime, I’ve received two calls from friends telling me to go down and take a look at what they assumed was the result of bad workmanship, or of leaving the wrapping on for too long.
The funny thing is that the surface of the patterned areas are left in their non-shot-peened state, i.e. very shiny and it gives a hint of what the spire may have looked like if it had been left with the stainless mirror finish that you usually expect with stainless steel. It reflects everything from the surrounds so you see distorted reflections of all the traffic and people moving across the surface, which looks great.
Can anyone recall if the shot-peened finish was mentioned at the beginning? and this pattern on the base? I only heard of it very late in the day, shortly before the first section arrived on site.
It would have been best if the base was left either with no pattern, or if one was desired, that it be a more linear, othogonal type of pattern, more in keeping with the feeling of the spire.
At the moment the pattern is too organic, and feels like a half-hearted gesture to “soften” the spire. I can’t think of anything less soft or organic than a sculpture in the form of steel spire set in an urban setting like O’Connell Street and think that should be celebrated rather than apologised for.I went down over lunch to see the base of the spire , now that it has finally been unwrapped. It looks kinda strange, and was causing a lot of comment from passers-by.
There is a pattern on the lower section of the base rising up to about 6 metres or so. I remember reading that this was derived from the patterns of the soil in the test bores that were done at the start of the project. I have to say the pattern looks awful….. very nasty actually. It looks as though the wrapping got stuck to the surface and then pulled off the finish when it was being unwrapped. I know that this isn’t the case, as the matt finish is shot-peened, not applied as a film, but that is what it appears like, and now since lunchtime, I’ve received two calls from friends telling me to go down and take a look at what they assumed was the result of bad workmanship, or of leaving the wrapping on for too long.
The funny thing is that the surface of the patterned areas are left in their non-shot-peened state, i.e. very shiny and it gives a hint of what the spire may have looked like if it had been left with the stainless mirror finish that you usually expect with stainless steel. It reflects everything from the surrounds so you see distorted reflections of all the traffic and people moving across the surface, which looks great.
Can anyone recall if the shot-peened finish was mentioned at the beginning? and this pattern on the base? I only heard of it very late in the day, shortly before the first section arrived on site.
It would have been best if the base was left either with no pattern, or if one was desired, that it be a more linear, othogonal type of pattern, more in keeping with the feeling of the spire.
At the moment the pattern is too organic, and feels like a half-hearted gesture to “soften” the spire. I can’t think of anything less soft or organic than a sculpture in the form of steel spire set in an urban setting like O’Connell Street and think that should be celebrated rather than apologised for.a neighbour of ours who was born and lived in stoneybatter prior to her marriage, told us about a series of cellers/tunnels underneath the garage that is being rebuilt on the North Circular near Hanlons Corner.
Apparently there are a whole series of underground yards on the site and they were used as lairages for cattle bought at the corporation markets across the way, before they were shipped out or brought off down the country.
The garage has used them to store cars in, so i imagine they have been in use up to recent times are must be of a reasonable size, but can you imagine what it would be like to descend into underground chambers and tunnels filled full of cattle?
have you tried the gallery of photography in Meetinghouse Square or the Photographic Archive at the same location.
The Archive stocks books from the collection of the National Library, such as the historic maps series and one on the Iriah Parliment, which should have the Malton view in it, They may also stock the Malton prints themselves.
Otherwise try the national library, i thought the Maltons were in their collection and they may do prints or posters of them.
it really looked great in the sunshine today. I cant wait for the crane to be taken off the site so you can see it uninterrupted.
If you stand close to the base and look up, you get quite a vertiginous feeling.
One women doing it sorta staggered and tottered backwards for a few paces………before composing herself and hurrying off.popped down to see it at lunch today and took some pics. It looks good and its great to see so many folks interested in it. You just stop and watch the other pedestrians walking with their heads facing upwards and then bumping into one another.
what sort of thesis are you doing? archtiectural, planning? its a pretty tough area to carry out a project with the general lack of context, boundary, etc, always think its one of those funny areas in any city, around the railway yards.
If its an architectural thesis, there was one thesis done in this area in Bolton Street last year. it was some sort of religious centre and was located on Steeven’s Lane i think is the name of the street. it runs from Heuston Station up in front of Dr. Steeven’s Hospital. the site was in behind that big wall which runs around from the corner from the quays.
If you head into the library in Bolton Street, you should find plenty of site analysis in that thesis book that may give you some pointers on information to be found relating to the area.
UCD did a study on the River and the quays a few years back and one of the areas picked was an area from the Royal Hospital to the Wellington Monument in the Pheonix Park, including the station lands.
The digital hub is further to the southwest of heustan and lies in two blocks of land on either side of Thomas Street, in the area around the Guiness Storehouse. i think it may be under the Department of the Taoiseach, but if you search under the government website you’ll find info. They have brochures and the like to send out to interested parties.
Some of the paintings in Russborough were created as part of the interior, or rather the interior was created around those particular paintings, and i feel its necessery to show them there to fully experience the house as it was intended to be seen.
Paintings in a gallery are never as interesting as when you see them in the context that they were intended to be viewed in, with the more atmospheric surrounding of the interior, lighting, furnishing and colours of the particular period.There are plenty of paintings in the National Gallery already and they only show a fraction of their collection as it is without taking on the remainder of the Beit Collection as well (although some of the items from the original collection are on show there).
I do believe that the Beit Foundation needs to re-examine the security arrangements at the house, in light of the similarity of the last two robberies, from which nothing in the procedures or physical deterrents appears to have been altered in terms of enhancing the security.
I can only imagine what complications they will encounter if they try to carry out works requiring cameras, PIRs, alarms, cabling, turnking, etc. in a house that is listed up to its eyeballs with planning permission required for every change.
The only text we had for Art was “The Story of Art” by Gombridge, published by Phaidon. Anyone else have this? I liked it, you were able to just read through the text for pleasure unlike so many of the text books i’ve had over the years.
I was walking down to bus aras last week and there is a deep excavation on Store Street.
It reveals a load of services running all over the place but also a brick tunnel running along the centre line of the street.The tunnel is big enough for a single person to walk along. I’m not sure if it was a pedestrian tunnel or a water duct, although it seems to have a flat floor, rather then the curved one you would normally associate with a sewer
The millenium bridge has similar non-slip slabs at the road edge, but there are no steel inserts, the raised bumps are also in concrete.
I think they look better like this although i was wondering whether they also meet the regulations as they are grey to match the surrounding slabs and i assumed the red colour that you see elsewhere is to assist the partially sighted.
The steel inserts on Capel Street Bridge look a bit fussy to me and i think the steel could be slippy when wet?i wonder will it appear like the sketches shown on the signs, when it is finally complete. The seating is quite strange. i hope those glass panels will end up with some sort of graphic or perhaps they are inended for advertisement display?
Paving looks great though, lights dont strike me as being all that suitable, but when the thre kiosks are in place they may appear better.Hmmm, not sure really Paul. it wasn’t really realistic to convince on celluloid. It looked sorta fake, more as though it was to give an impression. i was wondering if it was something to do with the court action by the carlton group, as part of their action against Dublin City Council’s CPO on the site.
Has anyone seen the Caralton recently?
I passed it on friday and the building has been cladded in some sort of boarding, the windows have been covered with that printed mesh to look like new ones and the neon signs have been restored.
The enpty site next door had a scaffolding erected which was then covered in more printed mesh, this time printed with a copy of the facade of Dr.Quirkeys.
It looked not at all bad really. the boarding is coloured the same as the facade and as its so clean and smooth, it gave an impression of how it might appear if restored. it all looks a bit like the art deco you find in california.
build on the graveyard? are you nuts? it must be one of the most beautiful small garden speces in the city and you want to build on it.
i love to walk by and every time get the feeling of being transported back in time to a different age, if only for a moment. i would not like to see it go or be developed in any way. I assume that it is protected and i think i remember hearing that it is owned by the Hugenouts or the French Embassey or some such body.Is there any other space that people know of in the city where there is a small space such this(not necessarily accessible)where a similar atmosphere exists?
