marmajam
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The big irony is this: The stadium at Abbotstown was costed at 350 million (iirc).
That was shot down due to politics (Mary Harney and Pat Rabbite I’m looking at you)
This stadium is costing approx 300 million.
Maybe the solution will be in 10 years when the Aviva contract runs out and Croke Pk can be used for big games.@lostexpectation wrote:
theres dramatisation of eiffels towers being made on Discovery you can acquire, awful dialogue but interesting to swatch
true
@rumpelstiltskin wrote:
That’s the point, your condemnation includes the phrase “what other city”. What vulgarity would compel somebody to put a FERRIS WHEEL next to the most famous parliament building in the world, ruining the panorama? Might as well just stick a giant red nose on big ben. What insanity caused somebody to plonk a BIG SPIKE right in the centre of the main street in Dublin? Doesn’t it just look like a syringe? What UTTER MADNESS caused somebody to put, of all things, a GLASS PYRAMID in the middle of one of the most historic buildings in Paris? Why not put a glass sphynx on top of the Arc de Triomphe while they’re at it! And how uncivilised must have been all those who ruined the historic low rise streetscape of New York by plonking monstrosities like the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building right in the middle of them? BARBARIANS!!!!!!!!
you need to cut down on those ‘rage’ pills you’re taking rumpelstiltskin.
they’re not doing you any good at all.
must be looking for publicity ‘cos there’s more chance of Elvis Presley crashing a UFO into the Loch Ness monster than of this being approved.
didn’t they say a while ago that there was no finance for this and it would be in suspense until economic recovery………………………………..?
be pushed to get this underway before PP runs out.
@Morlan wrote:
The absolute gem of the south city centre. Buy out the car parks, force Dublin Bus to change their routes, get the Luas in. Pedestrianise all streets. What a fantastic city Dublin could be. 🙁
good idea. but
be over the dead bodies of dublin bus and shop traders.
I’d be for it (killing the above especially)
@alonso wrote:
who told you being in government was being in power. The city is controlled by Dublin Bus not the government, national or local 😉
I just hope they don’t get totally creamed on Friday. Compare this plan to the visions of the other parties…. what vision you may ask. Precisely say I and I despair. But then i recall this and despair even more so http://www.newheartfordublin.ie/about.html and then almost immediately recall this and breathe a small sigh of relief
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/1110/1225925618848.htmlIt’s a rollercoaster alright, this city planning and urban design lark
Jebus! They Wish!!
It’s actually controlled by about 25 mechanics who down tools (somehow they accidently get them into their hands from time to time) the minute the Managers viciously ask a driver to get out and pick up a few passengers.
@notjim wrote:
How did they do it?
‘they’ partly slid de bridge onto a 2nd barge and sailed it across on a high tide so it straddled the pivot. then…………..with a big hammer and a jemmy and using the outgoing tide and partly by sinking the barges with ballast, it was lowered……..and bob’s your uncle. or your auntie (depending on your orientation………..)
@lonkey wrote:
fantastic stuff the new nick name will be coming for it dare i call it [the drunk on the harp]
get your coat
ffs
@what? wrote:
The convention centre is a massive, scale-less, bombastic box which is completely out of ‘fashion’ because A: it was designed sooo long ago and B: it was designed in the most overtly ‘fashionable’ and facile period of architecture of the last century.
but do you like it?
@CC105 wrote:
regardless of looks it should generate a lot of revenue for the city – very important these days -dont think hawkins house does that,
– – -at least it is actually built regardless of whether people like or dislike it – a rare enough achievement for Dublin.you’re right, the venue long overdue.
just laughing at Treasury, are they that naive or do they think everybody else is?
@Peter Fitz wrote:
In a way i’m surprised at your surprise Graham ?
If ever a building lived up to its modelling & renders this is it. For me, the drum is the building, the rest really amounts to bland casing and i suppose there was no indication that it was ever going to be any different, though always a faint hope flickered that dusty pink would not be the chosen colour.The unknown imo was whether the drum would be appropriately articulated throughout the interior, to be more than just a facade & elaborate stairwell, unfortunately it appears to be just that.
The other great disappointment is the relationship between it and its neighbour, pwc’s hq arrogantly throws two fingers up at everything that surrounds it, I wouldn’t mind so much if it amounted to more than office park drivel itself, pity it wouldn’t continue its pompous march that bit further and fall in to the river, woops.
I don’t want to be too negative, overall the drum is pretty impressive and makes a positive contribution to a river front that was crying out for something, anything!
it breaks up the monotony but……
what makes me laugh is the treasury tripe: the most important building in Dublin since the 4 courts. it’s hawkins house jazzed up.
