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@J Walker wrote:
This is the other part of the development. It is linked to the part in the picture via a vehicular bridge currently under construction.
Much nicer than the first part shown.
Hahaha, Its horrible though, you see that‘s the problem. Completely out of proportion in my opinion, would need about 3 or 4 more stories on top for the bottom window to look right.
@burge_eye wrote:
What do they teach?
http://www.cit.ie/Courses.cfm/section/narrow/aID/188/action/page/CatName/Courses.html
Does anyone else feel the winning building is one of the most disgusting buildings ever? And it just got bigger, oh god.
I find alot of Northern villages disturbingly twee. I like wild countryside, i hate trimmed hedges, then again my mum from kildare likes trimmed hedges, guess its down to where your from!
@Frank Taylor wrote:
Does Cork have the self confidence to be different from Dublin rather than slavishly repeating the capital’s mistakes in slow motion?
Cork spits it’s tea at the monitor in simultaneous shock
@StephenC wrote:
Question for 2005: How long does it take to pave a street?
depends on the size of the street baddum chhhh
Why are you so adament to bring class into it. Is the real problem not some shly whore with a peasant mentality who’ll do whatever they want to get their hands on the money and to hell with everyone else.
The impression i get is if the Guardian called it Eire you’d call it Ireland, if they called it Ireland you’d call it Saorstat na hEireann.Now they’ve realised they’ve messed up the tourism industry in donegal. Half of Northern Ireland owns hoilday houses in donegal and the hotel/restaurant industry is going down the toilet.
@FIN wrote:
why would a developer pay for something better when the same shit they have been doing and building cheaply will sell anyway. the profit margin decreases…doesn’t make economic sense. while i agree that they should be better it’s a simple matter of sums…
Lets all lie down and die then and let some ignoramus build a car park over us.
While on the matter of sums could someone please explain to me why on the one hand you’ve got shoe box apartments built for investors to cram in money making human units, then on the other you’ve got low density housing estates completely underusing the land to its full potntial if its money they’re after.
Can no one with a brain see a middle ground. Are spacious 3-4 storey apartments with large balconies/outside areas/ roof gardens really that crazy a vision of what’s possible with a much larger return than a wasteful housing estate.
Boggles me.@alan d wrote:
Developers are’nt daft….the give the punters what they want.
You make it very hard to reply to that without sounding like a snob but i don’t think what joe punter wants is whats best in the long run and he most likely doesn’t know the alternative. There are alternatives so why should we accept those without any vision or imagination be let create our environment. (i’m not expecting a detailed answer on why.)
Also on your point of its what happens everywhere else, it happened everywhere else, leessons were learned, but no, we’ll go ahead and see how it works out ourselves thanks.
Stiras last point,…. to quote someone elses take on De Veleras dream of “a chicken in every pot”, well now its “a house in every field”.@Lorcan wrote:
Any one see the culture show on BBC2? had a thing on cork 2005 capital of culture, and gave peoples views on patrick street.
‘the people of cork think the lamposts belong in an industrial estate’not to sure about them myself, i think thry’re pretty nasty, would’ve expected more for a much touted barcelona architect.
Possibly the two stupidest posts i’ve ever seen stira and shaun. Did you read the article from the irish times shown here a few weeks ago regarding the shock induced from the extent of suburban sprawl in rural ireland seen from satellite images. Or sorry, is the Irish times a D4 mouthpiece to.
Villages are being swallowed up in duplicate red brick/ mock tudor/georgian blah blah housing estates that strangle any further development of the actual village, souless retail parks popping up on every roundabout on the new bypass, bye bye town centre, hello BnQ, toy city, homebase, M&S, Sterile business parks 2 miles out of town, lets get the cars out, or maybe we could build a bungalow nearer to work, maybe they’ll build a housing estate out by the business park, mock tudor maybe, that’ll fit in. We can drive the kids to school, they’ll have to upgrade this road soon anyway.
Progress hurray, spread out the blanket of Service stations, warehouses, new roundabouts, maybe a “3-storey” apartment block with ample parking, hotels, travel taverns, out of town shopping centre…………………………
………………………………………..etc etc etc etc.
The place is being churned up, Last time i went home from westport to sligo i couldn’t help but notice the hedgerows were grey from the constant muck churning of passing lorries loaded with the spoils of another fantastic new out of town development.
I’m all for progress, but at it’s been left it in the hands of clueless tasteless fools who couldn’t give a shite about anything but there own return, sly deals and more money for the boys, throw up anything anywhere, to hell with the consequences.
