Mob79

While i do like a bit of variety in design to break up a steetscape, the last time i walked up here i noticed an overwhelming lack of unity amongst all the new developments, totally disjointed and broken up, no flow to the street, just random buildings shouting out. That overhang is so unneccassary too!!!!, the whole set back top storey is so unsuitable for that building. One thing that really annoys me about the majority of new developments is the complete lack of character on the ground floor, usually just some kind of polished stone/marble and sheet glass… plain and simple, no personality or style, this is our street, why does it have to be so bland, shopfronts on the old style individual buildings usually have very individual styled fronts, now its one monotonous block of repeated bland shopfronts, where has the joy gone in architecture,? no flair, no personality, no room for adaptation, no fun is to be found on street level. Think Camden street, then think of how bland street level on this development will be.

Also in the second picture, wouldn’t the side leading into the georgians have fitted in much nicer without that silly piece of wood between the 2 windows, completely puts it at odds with the georgians when it could have so easily fitted in.

That could be it, i don’t know. I thought KerryBog2 said it was visible on the ferry in! Haven’t seen anything myself.

Doesn’t seem to be to much going on in galway. The new building beside the Spanish arch is looking good though. If one had the unfortunately totalitarian right to vacate the houses on the other side of the river from spanish arch and round towards salthill, some interesting things could be done. Walked along the road to salthill yesterday, some of the landscaping is abysmal and so unfortunate to have the road fronted with bland housing estates. That stretch, also the stretch bordering lough Atallia? could be fantastic, bland housing estates and bad landscaping all round though.

@deza wrote:

Paul/ Alpha,

That looks familiar. If I think that’s on the Northside of the river a little bit down from the Financial services centre.

it’s the southside, between grand canal dock and the river
just saw this link when i was making sure it is called grand canal dock
http://gtx2.net/archives/2004_05_01_ those buildings look like they’re in the spot where that highrise block of flats was proposed!

@Paul Clerkin wrote:

Museum Proposal – Flann O’Brien

Convert the public toilets underneath the statue of Moore at Westmoreland and College Streets.

COuld b a quirky little museum, and appropriately on the only stop of the Dublin underground.

Dublin needs more of this weird shit.

What about modesty. Modesty doesn’t cost to much extra does it?

Is it not down to a governments level of enlightenment on issues of the built environment. You don’t have to have a historical legacy of spatial planning to know that allowing urban sprawl to continue is wrong. It’s lack of vision, spatial awareness and imagination on the governments part to see the alternatives to create healthy vibrant communities. As much as i want to, i have no architectural training but i can see what i don’t like in our current development and i can imagine exciting alternatives, just as someone has a knack for cooking or woodwork some may have a better grasp on visualising and creating living environments. It doesn’t flow in the blood of a nation, maybe it’s just facilitated better in some nations by governments who are made more aware of the environments they are creating.

@ewanduffy wrote:

Grand Juries

That’s the one.

@dave123 wrote:

this is one of the nicst red brick buildings i have seen in a long time !
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I think the ground floor lets buildings like this down so often, it’s so unbelievably bland and uninteresting, our streets will all be so monotonous. I do like recessed balconies though as opposed to cages stuck on to a sliding door.

it was on the news lastnight, 2 years before any work will start on the site!