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The staff of this proposed building would not have their own station! That basement would run on to connect the terminal buildings to any metro station. Dublin airport will not be getting two metro stations! (if it gets any). I’d like to see the building built. If it is to be served by metro then it could support retail and leisure facilities. Munich airport has a pretty big retail core and the train station is directly beneath it and it’s much further from the city and any civilisation than DUB.
Just how much land does AL lease from DAA and what length are the lease(s)? It might be hat they got some crazy cheap long lease a long time ago and know that it would be stupid not to exploit it more. I know that Aer Rianta had to buy the staff of the airport and AL out of their share in the CHURCH! cos it was paid for with staff subscriptions years ago. My uncle was an engineer for AL when they still did all their own work at DUB and e remembers paying dues from his wages for the church to be built. He told me that they (Aer Rianta) had to pay a handsome price for that church land and promise to replace it with a new one off airport land near tha coachman’s inn.
I haven’t been in Maynooth in ages, I went to School in Salesians and remember Maynooth fondly, a very nice town. I hope the development doesn’t ruin this, I am glad to see high density housing going in along the railway though.
@Boyler wrote:
The government should also hurry up and reopen the Western Corridor. It is badly needed and would help envoirnmentally and visually.
😮 badly needed by whom?
@asdasd wrote:
A building is not a statue. I imagine that the statue of Hitler, if any, ( and the pictures on the wall ) have been removed. And Nazi insignia too.
I wasn’t really intending to write all that as one paragraph. The two sentences weren’t meant to be related, sorry for the confusion.
However, what about statues of roman emperors in Britain, France or Germany? They ruled with iron fists and oftentimes did much worse to the populations of Britannia, Gaul and Germania than the brits did to us. Should the statues of those ‘nasty’ emperors be sent back to italy for example?
What about just plain ‘initialed’ or ‘inscribed’?
With respect to the statues, I think they only bother people who let themselves be bothered by ’em. Isn’t one of the finest examples of Nazi architecture actually the former german embassy in London?
I think the ‘Royal’ prefix is ok. Austria doesn’t have an emperor anymore but you still see K&K written on things (It means Kaiserlich und Koeniglich’ or ‘Imperial & Royal’, generally used to imply quality).
I don’t agree that it’s ‘Pale snobbery’ as we’ve seen-there are examples all over the country.
Yeah I like to see evidence of our past too. I think we’d have a lot more it it hadn’t been for the civil war (so many buildings seemed to be destroyed at that time).
People who can’t deal with a crown and a few lions here and there are losers IMO. We’re not part of the UK, but we were.
I had a scout through the archives and Tralee Court House has two canons outside which are a memorial to the Crimean war and (rather unfortunately) to some uprising in India which was put down.
@PDLL wrote:
The general post office in Sligo has an ER coat of arms above the main door. There is also a huge stone coat of arms sculpture at the back of the Quad in the University in Galway – I think it was taken down from the top of the courthouse in Galway. If I think of more, I will post them.
Is that ER as in Edvardus Rex VII, like what’s on the post boxes?
My faourite view in Dublin will be lost forever 🙁 I just love coming into town along Chesterfield Avenue at dusk, the huge red neon Guinness sign atop the tall white building shining brightly. Ah well, it’s impressive looking anyway. I’m no language fascist but ‘Halla baile’ slips off the tongue more easily than ‘city hall’. This area of the city really needs careful planning. It’s such an important gateway and it’s a dismal place right now. It always has been and hardly anything has changed there since I was a kid taking the 68 bus into town along that way!
I agree that each era should leave it’s mark on the city. I like the UB on Dame Street too to be honest. I think cladding what we perceive to be ugly is a poor way to spend taxpayers money. I’d rather it were spent on pavement improvements, quality street furniture etc. To be honest-most locals don’t look p at the buildings that surround them anyway.
@eoin82 wrote:
This is where the hotel will be (i think). Anybody able to confirm this? it’s certainly a big enough site.
That clashes with the county development plan which still reserves either the 1975 DRRTS alignment for a DART spur from Porterstown to the Town Centre or the orbital metro (which according to PFC would run along roughly this alignment) running parallel to Blanchardstown road south. Note the train tracks leading from Porterstown (future) station to the town centre in this map. Any hotel would have to allow for the railway under it. It would be very interesting to see what happens come construction time for any building on this site. It really detracts from the area at the moment too, just dirtyus srubland. tis awful.
Come to Dublin 15 for some high rise :D. Seriously though, it seems FCC have a half an idea about densification, certainly in D15. They seem to have grasped it about 2 or 3 years ago and hardly any units being built in D15 as a proportion of total units aren’t in medium-high (Irish high!) density. The apartments are all pretty decent to me as a layman, at least they’re interesting to look at compared to the likes of what’s on the quays near Heuston and people get some green space right outside their doors while still living in a reasonably dense development.
Cheers lads. AFAIK FCC want out of the city centre as is right an proper really. The council’s officials should be based in the county.
Cheers stephen,
As far as I can fathom they only correspond in writing (no phone numbers on the website anyway, just a snail-mail address). I was just chancing my arm that someone would know off hand. Their site is vague about what exactly needs to be submitted when arranging a pre-application discussion. My dad’s PP took ages on a commercial development he was doing, it was sooooo tedious having to do everything in writing with SDCC but they wouldn’t take calls (sort of understandable given the work but they should have more detailed info about the requirements on the website so one can get the application as right as possible, first time IMO).I’ll get an architect lads! I don’t want to pay an architect before I am fairly confident of getting planning though and as I can draw up schematics on CAD, I’ll do that. I just wondered what documets the council will want for the pre-application meeting (they can give you approval in principle, then you can go get an architect to design it properly and apply for full PP).
I’m not gonna just take a chance on my foundations (I’m an engineer, albeit in electronics! so I understand little technicalities like loadbearing capacity of the foundations 😀 )
@sw101 wrote:
are you building a 2 storey extension?
yup, want to tear off the rear roofing surface off the dormer and build the rear walls and rear hald of the side gable wall up to second floor ceiling height and replace the rear roofing surface with a hip roof, with a much flatter pitch. I can get 2 more bedrooms this way without going into the garden (and hopefully the foundations are up to the extra load, which I’m hoping they can).
