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“DDDA plans to demolish its own building opposite Jurys Inn in late 2005”
About time too! wonder where they’re off to. Lots of reduced rent office space around there!
Sustainable development – ability to continue developing and building at at least the same rate we are doing so. To sustain the number of jobs in construction industry and to sustain the growth in profitability of development.
This is the Bertie definition that we use in this country. 😉
Here’s the section 25 relating to the area
Glad to hear I wasn’t the only one there!
I found very little new or extradinory in what was presented – but had a very enjoyable evening none the less. How nice to sit back in a comfy chair with a pint and listen to someone talk entertainingly about an interest and passion we share. Not bad for free! Thanks Design Ireland Network.
You might be able to help – What was the name of the architect of the railway style offices? He mentioned CIE but I didn’t catch the name. Looked interesting – based on one slide. (metal construction looked like a grounded streamliner rail car. Touch of Kansas maybe?)
I thought his new garden design looked very interesting and is an area that needs a lot of improvement. It was an attempt to design a proper shared garden for an apartment block – these tend to be problematic as in Clarion Quay or unused as in nearly everywhere. Rather than gravel the whole thing, his design encorporated curvey walkways and secluded pod areas. Can’t wait to see how it turns out as I can see the secluded semi private areas becoming cider swilling spots.
Nice plan for reeds of lights with each apartment overlooking having the remote control for one or more lights allowing you to interact with the garden from your balcony. Sounded fun.It was odd the way they knocked it – the facade seemed to be being retained and then that was knocked too. As if they had a change of mind. Nice old building – I was quite fond of it.
Here’s what it looked like:
Thanks as always to the wonderful fantasy jackHas anyone any images of the planned replacement? It would want to be good. These little gems are still disappearing across Dublin (next will be swenys no doubt).
Next time you’re passing -if you get depressed thinking that it should have been restored, take a look at the stained glass of the windjammer (in yellow at righthand side of image). It’s very simple stained glass of a bottle of stout or wine. Always gives me a smile 😉
But based on markings shown by the traffic cam you refer to, there’s 4 lanes on the bridge with 2 turning right (exclusively) and 2 going straight (exclusively) onto o’connell st. There shouldn’t be any merging.
It can be tricky finding information on the DDDA site. Sometimes the interesting documents are not linked to from their main pages. You could try looking in the uploads directory using a search similar to this one
Google for U2 in /uploads
As these tend to be pdfs they will print well and provide roby with plenty of bedtime reading!Here’s another doc that doesn’t seem to have been indexed yet by google.
Tender to complete u2 tower (memo)One of the factors that facilitate prisoners successful re-integration into society is maintaining social and family ties. Especially in the case of parent/child relationships.
This is something that should be addressed in the provision of a modern purpose built jail. I worry that it is not addressed by the current plan.
I understand that (something like) 90% of the prison population come from just 5 catchment areas. All of which have (relatively) good public transport links to Dublin city center. None of which (bar north inner city) have any public transport links to Thorntown.
I hear that the plans to the prison will not be available for security reasons.
But I presume they won’t be going high rise, which could have been considered for Mountjoy site. [can you imagine the uproar 😉 ]
Which is a pity as the only modern(ish) prison that i’ve been impressed by is Chicago’s W.J Campbell Court House annex. It’s pretty functional – for example, all the windows are 5inchs wide which is max allowed by state standards. They run the full height of the cells though, which allows in max light. The views must be better than most prisons! I like it although the picture dosn’t really do it justice. It looks like a punch card or a bar code or something – very techy for mid 70s!Sorry – no photo yet.
Anyone know how were they able to install that sign on a protected structure without applying for planning permission? [or did I miss it?]
Here’s the original pp for restore of the canopy which was granted permission back on the 18th Nov 2003
http://www.dublincity.ie/planning/decis/year03/week47.pdf
App 4736 /03Location: The Olympia Theatre, 72 Dame Street, Dublin 2. Proposed development: Restoration of cast-iron canopy and glazing to Dame Street elevation. Increase to footpath of one metre at Dame Street entrance. Alteration of signed to Dame Street elevation. Painting to Dame Street elevation. Restoration of sash windows, alterations to central ticket office in entrance lobby. Enlargement of stalls area. Removal of WCs to the rear of stalls. Alterations to Sheridan’s Bar and Maureen’s Bar. New fire exit from Maureen’s Bar to Sycamore Street. Demolition of single-storey structure at Crampton Court. Erection of four-storey structure at Crampton Court to include WC areas and storage. Alterations to dressing rooms and wcs at first floor level and general refurbishments internally. This application involves works to a protected structure. Applicant: Olympia Theatre.
The new sign although of poor design quality, looks rather like it’s here to stay rather than a tempory measure till restore is complete.
Anyone know the justification for public private partnership in this case. I though the obvious plan was sell the current city center prison and use the cash to build the new one in (nearly) Meath.
Going to be hard on visitors to the prison to get there from…oh – anywhere I guess. except ThorntownMost extensions to these houses would be exempt from planning permission (single story, rear of house etc.) so you will not see much record of them in planning files. Also there was an “amnesty” of stuff built prior to circa ’85 so much of what was done before then was again undocumented.
What area and vintage of Council house are you looking at ?
I was through this recently and definitely reccomend using an architect. Very pleased with the designof ours (builders now – that’s another story…)
and how about gravity flow – Does modern glass flow? ie: in 100 years will people marvel at the beauty of my pilkington sealed glazing units and the lovely shimmer of the reflected light – or will they always be perfectly flat?
Lovely house, lucky you!
Can anyone comment on from what point the actual glass stops being worthy of conservation. I think we all love the irregularity of georgian glass but at some point glass became a uniform commodity. When was that? Turn of last century? I refer to flat sheets of glass rather than the attractive curved glass crafted mid century.
btw:The shots of houses appear to be taken from public road so should be public domain info. No problems there?
