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Some times that I had loved living in Dublin
– Tour de France start, centre of town car free
– occassional street festivals, again streets car free
the human scale of the city really comes out when we dont have everything clogged by buses and cars and as a walker, you notice more, you see the details of the buildings, and learn the way streets intereact and possible reasons why they connect in such ways…. you learn about the city
25 Eustace Street, Temple Bar. Who’d have thought an entire Georgian townhouse, from 1720, has managed to survive intact in a part of Dublin that seems to have been converted into one large pub? Talk and tour of the house. Places limited. Wed Sept 6th, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Free. Irish
Landmark Trust, 01-6704733.They are going to clean the walls, i beloieve it will cost 2 million and when theyre doing that, they intend cleaning the rubbish out, and building a small weir to keep a minimun of a metre of water in the Liffey at all times.
Still if CIE architects were to be involved (which they probably wont), there would be a possiblity for some decent stations.
Its insane, with social problems on nearly every large housing estate in Ireland, how do they expect to engineer a cohesive sommunity from scratch.
I think Smithfield is an overhyped disaster, and the more I see of it, the more I thin k it is wrong.
The use of timber at Church St is rubbish, it’s there as a small decorative feature, almost an afterthought. “Hey, lets use timber shutters” “Cool man, that would be great, that’s the design work finished so, let’s go and have a gin and tonic”
In no way is it better than the timber work of de Blacam & Meagher whose standard of buildings is excellent. Look at the Copper Alley apartments, look at the corner of Castle Street. Excellent buildings all.
The Church St building is overscaled, mishapen, completely unattractive and should never have been build.
There isn’t much in the area either, one average church of Ireland with semi-interesting school, lots of derelict late georgian / victorian buildings, and some really bad and very dodgy looking corporation flats. Perhaps razing the area may not be a bad idea.
It would be enourmous, and perhaps the burners would look in scale then.
From todays paper:
Finally, Senator Norris’s reference to the presence of a gate
on the street in “1756 or whenever” is misleading. Once the
street had been residentially developed there was never a
gate to close it off. Do we really want “gated communities” in
the city centre in the year 2000?Personally I think its all down to snobbery.
there was a drawing in the last Sunday Times…..
madness…. trying to have their own little demense…..
The victorian gothic building?
As far as I know that’s listed Grade One…. they wouldn’t dare. Way too obvious a site for it to disappear over a weekend.
It’s obvious that there isn’t any political will in the Corporation to force Callaghan to put the building back.
Too weak willed. Its a pity the council elections aren’t dure for another few years.
Thje campshires are the area between the roadway and the water… they’re the actual quayside where in the past all the dock cranes were on rails.
Sorry, but Opera ain’t really my thing.
Anyway I just thought it was interesting. And I stand by my comments about Des McMahon, I’m a great admirer of the new Croke Park. Looks great from a distance and close up.
Last night’s show had a few highlights but the graphics are really starting to annoy me now. I agreed wholeheartedly with Des McMahon’s view of height, skyline and public space. It was a good theory and he presented it well.
However it was another programme last night on RTE which posed more questions re architecture and restoration. A programme about the La Firenza Opera House (destroyed by fire) in Venice. It seems that there is quite a strong feeling towards rebuilding it in a modern idiom rather than replacing it with facsimile. It seems that in Venice, they have a habit of slavish restoration, when the 16thc. tower of St Marks collapsed in 1904, they simply replaced it with an identical one.
This programme made me think more in the 20 minutes I saw of it that the entire series of Nation Building to date.
Have you seen http://www.archinet.co.uk
remamber this statement? Has anything happened yet?
23rd June, 1999.
PRESS RELEASE
on behalf of
DUBLIN CORPORATION
and
SHERBOROUGH SECURITIES Ltd.DEMOLITION OF ARCHER’S GARAGE, FENIAN STREET
Sherborough Securities Ltd. very much regrets the recent demolition of a List 1 building, Archer’s Garage, on Fenian Street. Noel O’Callaghan of Sherborough Securities Ltd., requested a meeting with Dublin Corporation and following that meeting, Sherborough Securities Ltd. have now signed a legal agreement with Dublin Corporation unconditionally to re-instate the premises to its former condition, with work to commence as soon as possible, but at the latest by 1st September, 1999. They have also agreed that the re-instatement will be completed within one year of commencement of works.
