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The fitout of Thing Mote dated from 1995 including the shopfront and the ceiling in best Italianite plastic, I’m delighted to see the back of it. I’m sure the guidebooks are delighted remove the paragraph for Bewleys and insert O’Donaghues.
It just goes to show that anything worthwhile takes time, I think the DCC condition on the facade is bull, it looked so different to anything else ever done here.
Any news on progress on the Elm Park Scheme, that one is fantastic for a speculative office development.
@lexington wrote:
The planned North Ring will run from Ballincollig (or Curraheen), passed Kerry Pike, via Blarney Area, via Mallow Road (N20), via Glanmire to link up with the N8 and complete the loop.
The proposal is controversial for a number of reasons – its routing options all threaten notable beauty spots or green belt areas, a number of scenic vallies and vistas will be interrupted and 3 of the 4 options included substantial motor-vehicle tunnels under quiet residential districts.
Well – putting my eco-conscience to one side -> what are your feelings?
Thats great news a full orbital motorway, this will make Cork a much better place to get around, all tree huggers should be shot on sight. Holding up the the progress of the growth of Cork how dare they.
I like the idea of a tall building at this location but I haven’t seen any images does anyone know where I can access a picture of the tower?
Did anyone see the carol singers on O’Connell St plaza lastnight?
I’m not normally a fan of this type of thing but between the tree and the refurbished setting it looked like something you wouldn’t have expected in Dublin only a few short years ago.
That is one depressing image Graham,
I’d gladly live with the Bread Co if the rest of the street had of survived
It never began in the architectural sense, an understanding arose that not a cent had been put in in over 20 years so the grand plan was to maximise 41 and sell 42. CBRE should have a result on that quite soon 5m guide 4.75m bid, Who knows
I was passing Stack A and all the hoardings have come down, it is starting to look fantastic I can’t wait until it opens. It really is a great bit of conservation architectural design and the Doclands Authority should have taken it on years before now. But to be fair the Docklands have delivered results and not derelict sites.
I’ve always this building has a strange sense of being on its side i.e. it looks like a conventional enough building but merely the elevation has been turned 90 degrees. This angle is particularly accentuated when viewed from the O’Connell St side of Henry St. The feature window on the second floor is fantastic in this context.
Originally posted by Devin
Mc Donalds opening a Mc Cafe on O’C. St. is an interesting development; When you think of the Grafton Street Mc Donalds, the face to the street was transformed (positively) when the Mc Cafe opened.
Because McDonalds O’Cll. St. occupies two building frontages in the middle of the burger strip, if done right the Mc Cafe could have a turning-around effect on the whole strip.
They also do much better coffee than Bewleys, if only they would remove those horrible plastic signs.
A good day for Dublin Transport,
A piece in the Sunday Business Post has stated that the so called Interconnector has now moved to phase 2 in the Dublin transport jigsaw. The question is when will phase 2 be formally announced?
Originally posted by speakeasy
[B Theres all sorts of bad stuff going on in this City which needs discussion. I strongly beleive that web sites like this do make a difference and are a great voice.Lots of new developments which seem to have escaped any public scrutiny at the planning stage (surprise surprise) are being thrown up in Cork. The City is losing its character, fast, because of cheap office blocks which are actually worse than the many mistakes built in the 1960’s.
Take for example the new development on Lapps Quay opposite the beautiful City Hall and next to the even more aesthetically pleasing Cork Savings Bank (now AIB). This, you would think, should be an area to preserve. But sadly the hideous old Eircom building on the Quay is being made look even more awful and a huge area has also been cleared to make way for air raid shelter type apartments and offices. Up the road at Anglesea street, a nice little area with lots of old well preserved buildings, is a new office block, which looks like it was designed by the same people who came up with the EBS building on dame street Dublin. This thing is monstrous, it dwarfs an adjoining pub and looks totally out of character in this street. What is going on? Who designs these things? Does anyone notice how shocking they are? Does anyone care? Cmon you Dubs, Cork is a part of this nation too… pay us some attention! Ireland’s architects are going to get a bad name from all this rubbish being [/B]
Yes Discussion,
Not free advertising for schemes of dubious quality, no response to the shameful demolition of Fr Mathews Hall only more updates with a mixture of smileys. It reminds me of a particular 1970’s chewing gum commercial.
Originally posted by speakeasy
This is a great website, really interesting even for the non architect types like me. But whats with all the discussion about Dublin? Cork is Ireland’s second largest city and hardly gets a mention! Theres all sorts of bad stuff going on in this City which needs discussion. I strongly beleive that web sites like this do make a difference and are a great voice.Lots of new developments which seem to have escaped any public scrutiny at the planning stage (surprise surprise) are being thrown up in Cork. The City is losing its character, fast, because of cheap office blocks which are actually worse than the many mistakes built in the 1960’s.
Take for example the new development on Lapps Quay opposite the beautiful City Hall and next to the even more aesthetically pleasing Cork Savings Bank (now AIB). This, you would think, should be an area to preserve. But sadly the hideous old Eircom building on the Quay is being made look even more awful and a huge area has also been cleared to make way for air raid shelter type apartments and offices. Up the road at Anglesea street, a nice little area with lots of old well preserved buildings, is a new office block, which looks like it was designed by the same people who came up with the EBS building on dame street Dublin. This thing is monstrous, it dwarfs an adjoining pub and looks totally out of character in this street. What is going on? Who designs these things? Does anyone notice how shocking they are? Does anyone care? Cmon you Dubs, Cork is a part of this nation too… pay us some attention! Ireland’s architects are going to get a bad name from all this rubbish being
Lads do you not think that it is a little premature to be discussing road pricing before the need arises. Have you never considered that this change might actually work in the absence of a charge.
The stick works the only problem is that the carrot is called CIEZap you are absolutely right it is sad that yet another Dublin institution is gone. Findlater House is a complete insult to the great tradition that family name once represented, Harvy nicks can retain status in London or even Dundrum, Grafton St will be at a serious loss minus Bewleys Oriental Cafe full stop
Thanks Diasporan, I’ll be in touch I hope that you can come up with a few faster ideas than all that data entry.
I think that a poll is in order, it is hard to know what people would choose given a choice, I’m sure that very few would want Nelson to symbolise a new Ireland. I’d like to think they’d choose the Spike but I suspect a mass poll would deliver a copy of the pillar with Collins or Pearse on it.
Originally posted by Graham Hickey
28/10/2004Here’s an question that I don’t think has been asked before here that would be very interesting to hear peoples views on.
I know it’s difficult to establish a context, esp with so much water under the bridge both in political and conservation fields, but if Nelson’s Pillar was blown up last night, do you think it would be rebuilt?
Would it be rebuilt in-situ with Nelson re-erected?
Would it be rebuilt in-situ with someone/something else on top?
Would the stump be moved and the whole pillar re-erected with Nelson on top somewhere less prominent?
Would the stump be moved and preserved in the Phoenix Park or similar place as an important piece of heritage – allowing something like the Spike to go ahead on O’Cll St?
Perhaps this is a poll topic – assuming it hasn’t been done before, although weirdly I doubt it’s even been discussed before.
What do people think would happen, and what do they think should happen?
