Jas
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They have a new website coming soon designed by Bluebloc.com for whom the administrative contact is one Odran Graby. I wonder is he related to John Graby? Probably not!
Maybe its not really a large house, just a semi-detached Georgian villa. Or the name was changed. This could happen when ownership changed.
I have to say that walking down the quays last night, seeing the first exposed half illuminated really demonstrated how much the river needs the bridge and how poor the Millenium Bridge looks in comparison.
In fairness any idiot could see this space being taken over by the skateboarders. It looks like it was designed for them, but they will intimidate other people away. The same way that people now avoid the Curved Street if they can to avoid the teenage goths and their tshirts commemorating Cobain (who was probably dead when they were 2)
It may be traditional but the best thing for a park is grass… it regenerates itself and will never look as bad as cheap granite slabs covered in black chewing gum stains.
No fergus, they will not need to, you can already see from the Jervis the blocks that are damaged by the skaters witjh the edges all lopped off, and marked. Personally I’d run over a skateboarder on my bike given the chance.
It has already been taken over by the skateboarders. I think the headstones in the lawn looks rather naff.
I passed by yesterday and could see in to the work. Looks very advanced, most railings seem to be back in place, there is new stonework where the toll booths were to allow people to stand while waiting on the lights to change. Cannot come too soon, as that temporary bridge is a terrible eyesore.
Just looking at this months National Geographic (November 2001), there is a photograph of Paris’s Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle. It has the same vibe and atmosphere as our own. Difference is that it has more windows and is lower, and the iron work is a bit more art nouveau. But it has all the cases etc, lots of dead animals, and no sign of multimedia kiosks (*spit*).
Its a street full of tat okay, with one of two decent shopfronts in the mire. The former Irish Nationwide HQ is a building I’d give my right arm to own.
I think the aspect to Nassau Street may have been better without the windows penetrating the facade. They interupt the pattern and sheerness of the exterior walls for very little in the way of usable light.
Sounds like myth – up there with the one “the bridge in Stephens Green is the original bridge from the O’Connell bridge site”
Problem is that mock victorian is never done ‘right’, lumpy details, poor execution, or just plain wrong. Good pastiche should be indistinguable from the original but many ‘olde’ shopfronts just look poor and garish.
There is a lot to be said for pastiche in the right location. Grotty PVC fronts can never be forgiven.
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The Parc Andre Citroen is all very impressive but somehow doesnt seem urban – more like a heavily landscaped Phoenix Park. The Birmingham projects all seem heavily retro with their street furniture. Barcelona is Barcelona, real style and pizzazz, maybe its the sunshine that makes public spaces look better and work better. Bilbao looks well too, is it the taller building enclosing the space? Does low rise sprawl engender public spaces or does it make everything feel like a wide roadway?
We need highrise, without it Smithfield and its surrounding area is going to be bland, bland like the docklands and its fast track planning permission for bland, six storey, bland, bland, bland buildings.
This has me intriqued now. I looked up a few books on Dublin that I have at home and have found nothing other that what has already been posted here. I think a trip to the Architectural Archive is in order, or a trip to the Railway Archives at Heuston Station (if its a tram terminus, they may have something).
According to Architecture in Ireland 1837-1921 by Jeremy Williams.
“One of the Boland’s bakery premises designed by Charles Geoghegen. in 1867 he rebuilt three Georgian house along Capel Street with enriched fenestration and mansard roofs. At the rear a glazed gallery with a boldly cross-braced roof leads to the former Presbyterian church; the congreagation had moved to Findalters Church in parnell Square. Later a bakery, now sheltering a congregation of cars.”
Findlater’s was opened in 1864.
But Paul states the archway says 1882 so obviously this is not part of the old church. So what was it?
