lostexpectation

could they start some sort of bicycle education scheme connected to the bike?

i wonder how many lorries are about in paris, its not a port city though.

http://www.herald.ie/national-news/city-news/city-skyline-fears-with-gresham-revamp-plan-1408318.html
gresham hotel skyline etc

i thought one end was much lower then another the pics doesn’t make it look so.

Arnotts backs €1.2bn ‘park in the sky’ plan
http://www.herald.ie/national-news/arnotts-backs-836412bn-park-in-the-sky-plan-1393365.html

A €1.2bn redevelopment of Dublin’s Carlton cinema has been backed by the company behind major plans for a neighbouring site.

Arnotts Properties has written to Dublin City Council expressing its support for Chartered Lands’ Dublin Central proposal for the former cinema and surrounding land.City councillor Emer Costello and Dublin Central TD Joe Costello registered their support for the concerns of residents in relation to the development.

“There is serious concern regarding the height, density and design of this development in the environment of the most important street of our capital city,” the public representatives stated in their letter.

The Dublin Transportation Office (DTO) expressed its support for the proposals.

“The DTO is supportive of the type of development proposed as it supports the consolidation of retail in the city centre and presents an opportunity to deliver an enhanced public domain,” it stated.

Historical body the National Graves’ Association opposed the development.

“The development heavily infringes on all six buildings in Moore Street and Moore Lane which have recently been declared a national monument,” stated the association’s Matt Doyle.

The council is due to make a decision on the application within two weeks.

The group’s Kevin Duff wrote in his letter of objection that “the scheme as proposed is seriously ill-conceived in its scale and impact on the design, quality and historic fabric of the surrounding area”.

@GrahamH wrote:

It is indeedy Punchbowl. This was once one of the largest houses on Sackville Mall, and probably the largest on the west side. Here you can see it proudly dominating that side of the street – a big five bay affair.

It also marked the boundary between Gardiner’s low cost numbers – the dodgy duplexes if you will – to the south end of the Mall compared to the generally more exclusive three-bay houses – the modern-day executive mansions in Phase Two – to the north.

i see even back then they needed a barrier (walls) to the hustle and bustle of the street in order to use the median.

yes thanks its unusual how microsoft maps present the moore street map a small bit better, it strange how there aerial/sat maps are _awful_, they seem to have skipped a process and gone for the four view birdeye views, but you might not think to look at the excellent quality birdeye view for central dublin after seeing the quality of their aerial maps.

http://maps.live.com/?mapurl=http%3a%2f%2fmaps.google.com%2fmaps%2fms%3fie%3dUTF8%26hl%3den%26oe%3dUTF8%26msa%3d0%26msid%3d118408261403229194346.00043d26881da93317d8c%26output%3dkml with birdeyes view, hope these links are working for people

hibernian.ie have new street finder thing now too, good quality maps, form 2007 though, you can follow the building work of moore street etc

somebody made map a interest map of the moore area with pictures, a tribute to the traders, I presume a lot of these will move to the markets I guess shifting the retail to the wholesale place and wholsesale out of the city centre.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=118408261403229194346.00043d26881da93317d8c&ie=UTF8&z=17

can put up a direct link to the planning application again I can’t find it ;/ or find where it was link before. i searched the number no luck ??

walking routes added http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=53.350065,-6.263591&spn=0.004598,0.014334&z=17&msid=108692096314893578946.00044c18f5b57f4c5b604

wrote a blog post about this, was wondering how the new proposed new arnotts streets and the new dublin central streets would match up,drew a map here see
http://dublinstreams.blogspot.com/2008/04/new-oconnell-street-development.html

you know paul clerkin (and grahamh) if you got a google key you could do lots with googlemaps embeds and mymaps
see this open map you collaboratively draw maps http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=108692096314893578946.00044c18f5b57f4c5b604

you could start a a irish-architecture one and we all could join and sketch things on it.

with a short time on google sketch up you could preview the things in 3d, but somebody needs to make the rest of the buildings there only a few made a the moment

whats in all those buildings behind the oconnell/moore/henry front storage for the shops? is there anything interesting hidden away, do the devleopers want to demolish conways yeah?

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0422/1208469018141.html

imagine just having the facade of the carlton with it wide open at the bottom and then just empty space behind the tall windows above, that would be impressive kewl.

what about the buildings cafe shop etc and above opposite the NG any comment on them they seem to be worked on continuously for years