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Just out of curiosity, why do you think it’s a hare-brained scheme?
Seems like an eminently logical project to me and it even appears to have the support of Eamon Ryan of the Greens.Speaking of monstrosities, what do people think of the plans for this – fairly crucial – site at Blackhall Place.
http://www.omahonyfinnerty.com/node/19
It looks to me like a sort of spawn of the new Comfort Inn at the Wax Museum and the Jurys on Parnell Street.
Hard to believe developers are still coming up with this stuff at sites, which have such extraordinary potential.Particularly depressing considering there’s been a lot of effort put in on Dorset St/Drumcondra Road these past five years. How can DCC let this stuff through. It seems like the only way something like this would be blocked is if they had wanted to build it double that height. Like Frank McD says – these are the future slums of Dublin.
Regarding East Wall – the reason why there was such a gigantic hole was because the two tunnels had to emerge there to create the new roads. Whilst building a Metro, there is no such requirement. In saying that, I accept that a chunk of St Stephen’s Green will end up a building site but comparing with Port Tunnel isn’t realistic.
Is the massive TBM site required at both ends? When they were digging the Port Tunnel, the enormous canyon needed for the tunneling machine was only dug in Whitehall – there was no need for one at East Wall AFAIK.
It is possible the work could be relatively unobtrusive considering all you really need are maybe a few sets of stair wells into the Metro Station.
Don’t see any real alternative because they can’t touch St Stephen’s Green West itself without interfering with Luas. Unless of course they dug up the area outside Habitat/Top Man but that’s not really a runner to turn the top of the main shopping street of the country into a building site.Do people know is this the same design as has been doing the rounds for the best part of a decade or something a little bit different.
One of my favourites, the CoI in Monkstown. It’s even nicer than this picture gives it credit for.
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/monkstown/monkstown_church_lge.html
Reminds me quite a bit of the Black Church, another magnificent building.
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/northcity/mountjoy_street/black_church.htmlI’ve been in quite a few of these blocks through work and almost invariably, they are of a far higher quality than the late 1980s/early 1990s private apartment schemes in Dublin. Certainly, ones such as Dolphin House and the old Fatima Mansions were very spacious.
Would have to disagree with GregF regarding Parnell Street. It’s an upgrade on surface car parks but there’s hardly a building of merit on the entire stretch. Jurys, Parnell Centre, and the big one over Aldi would be near the top of the list of worst modern developments in Dublin.You got to love that dome – at the very least, it’s very bold. One thing you have to say for this building is it has probably provoked more discussion than any other modern edifice on this website.
Also, I think it’s only fair that we give them a chance to finish up the work first. There were a lot of negative comments about Roches Stores on Henry Street as they finished off the job there – and many people have since changed their mind. The gantry must have a purpose though, aside from hanging flags.There are some very fancy “lamp shades” on top of the public lights along the stretch of the Boardwalk between O’C Bridge and the Ha’penny Bridge.
Not sure what they are for but some of them looked in an Oriental style from my taxi, which was hurtling along Aston Quay yesterday evening.It looks rather like a light sculpture at night. Apologies for poor quality of photo – taken on a phone.
Agree with most everything that has been said. But I think one thing in need of particular attention is the Luas electricity sub-station at the Liffey end of the street. It really is incredibly incongruous and yet, it would have been so simple to even just clad it in timber.
I think the best thing for it now would be an open artist’s competition to transform it into a large open-air installation of some sorts. I’m absolutely convinced this is feasible even if the ESB require entry to it.Amn’t sure whether you know this lads but they often have excellent models of proposed developments on the ground floor of the Civic Offices. I agree with the suggestion of something like that on a larger scale and on a more formal footing. But it’s certainly always worth popping in to Wood Quay to see what the latest plans are.
Don’t know how harmless it is to be honest. They made an absolute balls of putting it in and have damaged the brickwork on the bridge.
I doubt even the Sunday Times would claim credit for being responsible for the finishing of the bridge. But then again.
Would it not have been possible to come up with a new name. As if it’s not bad enough, there are – as already stated – two Sohos to compete with. And as also pointed out, Soho in London with its almost legal prostitution and sex shops may be a tourist attraction of sort but it’s hardly family oriented.
What about something like Heus-Town? I know that’s crap but anything would be better than SoHo. If this continues, we could end up with TriBeRoCa, the Triangle Beneath the Royal Canal and NoHo, north of Heuston. Perhaps we can also start referring to the North and South Quays as the Right and Left Bank.I’m not sure it would be an issue at all – there would either be travelators or a circular cost-free dedicated bus service. Both of these would be pretty standard in any major international airport.
On the subject of the braziers, the bases of them are unbelievably tatty, dirty and defaced by vandalism.
I think they’re very attractive from a distance but when you actually walk by them, they look awful like the base of some kind of derelict ESB substation.
On the rare occasions when they are lit, two of them aren’t working and haven’t for the longest time, which really just about sums up the City Council.
Also, I know people have raised issues about the quality of the cobbling on the square but there’s a big patch that has been tarmaced over, which has made it unimaginably worse.
