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@Andrew Duffy wrote:
The first article is very confusing. Is the apartment tower thirteen or ten storeys?
It sounds like its’s been brought down from 13 to 10 storeys through the removal of floors 2, 9 and 10 however that works! probably was a bit out of place anyway.
Two articles from the sligo champion, the silver swan hotel is thankfully a 1000 miles from the proposed plans
http://www.unison.ie/sligo_champion/stories.php3?ca=38&si=1289179&issue_id=11703 . also God help me for suggesting this but the decision to take 3 storeys off the building behind the hotel is probably justified.Also the two “hi-rise” buildings on the new approach road
http://www.unison.ie/sligo_champion/stories.php3?ca=38&si=1289250&issue_id=11703Looks pretty horrible though.
What is it with 6 story apartment blocks accompanied with a 20 storey tower, where’s all the 10 story apartment blocks?What about that cork county council book of guidelines/suggestions for one off houses. Cork Rural Design Guide or whatever its called.
Is it wrong to send a mail to this crowd? I deeply feel they need to be educated.
Their website is even more offensive than their houses, how can these people be let build?Originally posted by phil
What I meant was that there is no benefit in terms of the environment or health.Round sligo, my birthplace, there’s a particularly strong culture of throwing your rubbish out the car window. The bushes are slowly starting to resemble bushes rather than christmas trees since the plastic bag ban came in. That’s got to be good. Still plenty of coke and lucazade bottles in them bushes though.
And i thought they they were Bauhaus hardliners!! True i suppose. But just thinking of the usual post-colonial-tear-down-all-the-old-stuff and now they’re throwing it back up again with abysmal taste. kinda goes against what happens in most post colonial cultures.
At the moment with an abundance of appalling taste and new money people seem to be revelling in tacky mock versions of past english styles with some bizarre perception that it’s upmarket and refined! The old war of independence days of burning down the ascendency country manors seems lost on the new money crowd. (not that i’m old money or anything!)
Originally posted by Morlan
– Thank god for the EU –There it goes again, the self depreciation, maybe ireland can take some credit for its own success.
SNAP! Web designer who dreams of being an architect, UCD would be the best i’m led to believe if you’re more interested in the creative/design end of architecture. Not sure if i’ll ever be able to afford it though!
How very corbusian, have the people banished from the street, i like to see people out walking, and why do people thinks it’s so eccentric to walk a mile or two, it especially confounds me when the elderly gasp at walking this distance,… they grew up without cars!
With regards to walking infront of cars, why should 20-30 people wait on,..oh lets say the corner of stephens green, as 1 person passes by in a metal box. All hail the metal box.But is it the same proposal as can be seen on the billboards?, i was hoping i could believe it was just an initial idea of the project, it certainly isn’t 15 storeys. Or is there a new proposal, haven’t been to sligo in a while.
eh, couldn’t they build some kind of underpass for the train, like the one on the dart at landsdowne! That said i’ve no problem with 3 sides.
“Catholic fascist majority “, i can only imagine how insulting a statue of jesus must be to all of Irelands protestants and methodists etc. I like it, quirky little thing.
I’ll take that back, just saw the photo in the independent, not bad but definitely a million times better than the image i saw previously, think it was a first cousin of that golden can proposal for Salthill.
Probably somewhere similar as in limerick, towards the end of the quays and hope for the best to develop around it and become an extension of the town. Have you seen the plans for the site of the silver swan hotel and continuing down along the river. 4/5 storey mediocrity, stone clad, pitched rooves, round turrets. I don’t know how people think this is appropriate. Clean modern designs bear alot more relevance to the look of an irish town in my opinion. Sorry gone a bit off the thread there.
