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The Carlton cinema site on O’Connell Street in Dublin may not be redeveloped until after 2012.
Bit confused here. Does that mean he may not develop until that date or he must develop before that date?
Good to hear that the fugly Fingal offices will be demolished!
@kefu wrote:
Murphaph, can you explain how you run two tram lines into each other at right angles? Because for all the world this so-called connection between the two lines seems physically impossible to me, not least for reasons of capacity. Please someone explain this for me because I can not get my head around it?
The groove at the intersecting point is very small so there’s no risk of derailment.
Why does the SAVOY sign protrude about half a metre from the facade?! I think it spoils the building. Has it always been like this?
I guess you’d have a lot of the Green Line users finding a direct link to Pearse quite an attractive proposal.
Red Line users might opt for the quickest direct link to locations on the Green Line (Line A).Perhaps the RPA should carry out a survey on Luas passengers.
I have heard that the RPA are holding an open day this Friday at the Fitzwilliam Hotel about the Luas link options. RPA Staff will be there to answer questions and take comments. Its on all day as far as I know.
jjHave you a link there?
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Mr. Smart. Would it be possible for you to put spaces between your paragraphs? I find it very difficult to read.
Sorry for the gripe. I really want to read your comments but I find it a pain to do so. It’s not just that post, but a few of your previous posts too.
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@Graham Hickey wrote:
Are these tenement buildings you speak of ctesiphon what they call ‘mansion blocks’ over there? (in London at least).
What class of people would have lived in these in the 19th and early 20th centuries when they were built?
I suspect even then a house with front and back garden was still more desirable, even if these blocks were built to a very high standard.Have you not been to Edinburgh, Graham? If not you should be shot!
The majority of the tenaments in Edinburgh were built to a very high standard. Certainly the ones I was in.
Here’s a mighy tenament building in Cowgate.
Anyway, this is totally off topic.
Fair play to Dunnes for outbidding the others. I don’t like the idea of Tesco dominating the Irish market.
Ah, some pics!
It’s been a while since I was down Foster. I had it in my head the the Starbucks building was a quality corner structure.
Now, the lower facade isn’t to bad. If only they’d used the same render on the upper floors, I think it would look much better.
Not to dis your photos, Graham, but the place looks pretty cold and miserable, which it is.
I’m going to take a trip down there myself tomorrow to see what the story is, shall return with pics.
@asdasd wrote:
I drank outside on Fosters place yesterday. .
How did you find the level of traffic? And those taxis, were they not a little annoying?
Ach, Temple Bar has nothing to do with FP. FP is in a league of its own.
While O’Connell St is getting much attention these days, I guess we’ll have to wait until the College Gr./Westmorland rejuvenation plan gets going. To me, this will be far more exciting than O’C’s rejuvenation plan.
@alpha wrote:
i know it probably sounds silly but i have often wondered did people object to the building of huge churches too? some of our churches are a massive height. i wonder what our ancestors thought about say the maynooth college spire when that went up? i am not insulting churches mind as i do respect them. it is just a thought.
Another interesting question.
Perhaps people weren’t too bothered about it’s height or what it looked like. The standard of architecture back then was very high, IMO. Perhaps the main concern was if it was a Protestant church or Catholic.
Of course, I haven’t a clue what I’m talking about. I’d be interested in a proper answer though.
Indeed indeed.
If it were to be converted to a Restaraunt/Bar, there would be less of this carry on in Foster. The problem now is that Foster is a relativley dead area. A pretty-faced dead-end street in Dublin City. Too pretty for the skags, but dead enough for toilet duty and such.
Starbucks won’t change this. Forster needs a mini action plan by the council. I’d say action plans right now are far down the list of things to be done.
What we really need to know is who is in charge of the building above? Must go down there some day and read the bronze platter attached to the door. The owners of this building shall dictate the future of Foster.
Unless the council budge in, which is unlikely, Foster will remain a dormont beauty for many years to come.
@Graham Hickey wrote:
Agreed the D’Olier St site was a fine location for a statue island – what a shame O’Brien was moved.
When was Willy O’Brien moved? Was this a 20th century criminal activity or earlier?
@alpha wrote:
were there any objections lodged when dundrum’s luas bridge was first announced?
Interesting question. It would have been given permission under the Railway Order, so I’d asume that it went ahead regardless of public opposition. At a guess..
@garethace wrote:
I will get them don’t worry,
Or anyone else feel free to post up a pic or two.
But It just struck me this evening how obvious the point is – right in college green, where you just can’t ignore it. We need to pull up our socks,… big time.
Brian O’ Hanlon.
Not really that obvious IMO. That’s the beauty of Fosters. You could walk right past it without blinking an eye.
So it this area controlled by the council or BOI? The rape by the tacsaÃ’s would suggest that it’s a council plot.
Who resides in this building here?
Ideally, this building would be a restaurant/bar, providing outdoorsy seating. Starbucks is on the corner and would probably want to keep all their seating close to their own premises.
Wouldn’t that balcony there be a lovely place to have a meal? Of course, you’d have to clamber out them windows first!
ps. If anyone’s been down Fosters on a Saturday night, you will see that the place is no more than a public toilet and spliff smoking area. Perhaps it should be closed of at night to prevent this sort of ASB.
@PDLL wrote:
There was a very interesting report in the Sunday Times a year or so ago that focussed on the development of two large screens – one in Vienna and one London. The screens would be able to relay real time images and sounds from one city to the other – in short, you could walk up to the screen in Vienna and be seen on the screen in London at the exact same time thereby combining the two city streets in real time cyber space. The advantages and implications are quite amazing as you could effectively meet your friend in London while living in Vienna and have a normal conversation. Interesting development. Unfortunately, I have not seen any sign of it on my travels to Vienna and nor in London. In principle, however, it should work. Now there is a concept for a building (albeit very expensive). Cover the building is such screens (I am sure the technology will become cheaper and the screen material capable of covering larger expanses) and have real-time images of streets reflected through the screens. The skin of the building would become a panorma of world urbanism in real time. And who said that exciting things could not happen in Irish architecture – still hope for Dublin.
An IP camera, broadband connection, and a big ass video-wall in each city, job done. The only reall cost is the maintenance of the large screens. I’m sure this could be covered by advertisers.
It sounds interesting. I’ve never seen it in action myself.
I was trying to think which city Dublin could be paired with. Live broadcast Dublin-Barcelona? Dublin-Helsinki?
Now if every capital city in Europe had the same technolgy, you could rotate live broadcasts from city to city each day – I’m sure that would keep people interested.
