notjim
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@notjim wrote:
the spike’s lights seem to have been repaired again!
This was premature, they only worked properly for a week and now are down to about a quarter again! According to the Business Post, DCC has just put the maintenance contract out to tender. Oh how I wish this had worked better: fewer visible joins, the bottom section the same lustre as the rest and the lights working. It really is lovely from anywhere but OCS, Abbey, Earl and Talbot Street, but from these it looks a mess.
Re the Luas link up, thank god, this was the least needed of the T21 projects, for my money, why not just run it to interchange at Pearse; this would add far more useful connectivity than ||ing the metro between SSG and OCS.
And on another point entirely, isn’t it fantastic how well OCS has worked, for all the disappointments and delays and silliness and shoddiness from the building owners, it is just so much better used than it was eight years ago, even at the Parnell St end there are crowds.
The church st part of back of this building always annoys me: it is a complete mess. In the context of moving lots of its business to infirmary road surely the poor modern additions could be removed or redone?
You see I must be remembering this wrong but I thought the big clever thing for this square was that it was going to be designed in the old fashioned Georgian Sq/Grotmarket way: the council would establish a parapet line, a building line and so on and then individual lots would be sold off to individual developer to build what they wanted within that. Surely that would be better, more fun, more Market Squarish?
PS – that building on Mayor Sq is a nightmare, I hate it.
what was the film where someone had a W tattooed on each bum-cheek so that when they bent over it spelled WoW: in that context the opposite of wow is “o”.
Have you seen something other than the framework plan?
A panel by the roof fell off and Pearse St is closed by the college while they check the rest of the panels and the roof itself.
so what is missing from your suggestion is the luas line to grangegorman and liffey junction, at the moment intended as a continuation of bx: of course, once you have your crayons out it is easy to suggest ways around this too.
Isn’t it a pity that this was such a failure, the idea seemed appealing the abstract, but obviously a mistake the moment the kiosks arrived. What went wrong, if they had been somewhere else could this have worked and if so where and selling what?
Oh the arrogance! So why doesn’t the government start by legislating for the removal of all the existing billboards and then JC Decaux would stop offering us something they shouldn’t have had in the first place in return for something we don’t want.
In fact, the council asked Calatrava to design a bridge at a slant to the river; he rejected this on aesthetic grounds and they were persuaded it would look dumb.
@JoePublic wrote:
A nice example of the kind of skycrapers we SHOULD be building though. National conference centre hotel in spencer dock, compare and contrast?
A but now you are being silly JoePublic, that building has more in common with the NCC proposal, which you oppose, than the U2 tower, which you support.
You are right of course, so now we have it: use the portico as the entrance to the BB from the linear park: the reverse side, facing in to the basin can have ivy trained up it.
Browne’s doorway just looks silly, it doesn’t make sense as an object: it doesn’t present well as a sculpture because it was created to be an entrance, it has odd proportions standing alone making it painful to the rhythm of the urban landscape it stands in. Whenever I see it I wish it has been incorporated into a building. Galway oddly has two of these things, it also has Lynch’s window.
I understand that the building around this facade fragment is going to the mini-monumental, but couldn’t a stone fronted building without a flat facade and strong vertical elements manage to incorporate it in a playful and striking way.
[Well we shouldn’t discuss it here but I think the lido is a terrible idea: all BB needs is a bigger entrance on the linear park end, a bit more maintenance (maintenance to the standard of a south side park) and a more visible warden. The linear park on the other hand is a disaster. If there is to be a lido it should be in one of the grand canal basins, these are used for swimming anyway and are big enough.]
Silly to move it, this fragment has lost so much, to loose its location to; besides, the BB is going to be full of this lido and the Browne doorway in Eyre Sq is a lesson in how old entranceways don’t work as freestanding follies. The proposal is appalling, but surely if we are to dream, a clever modern building could incorporate this remnant in an artful and exciting way.
http://www.sciencegallery.org/
has a link to the programme for the opening event _Lightwave_ 2-9 Feb:
“How can light make the everyday look slightly sinister? What does a solar flare feel like?
How does a bumblebee learn about colour? Installations by some of the world’s leading
engineers, scientists, lighting designers and artists delve into these questions over
two floors in the Science Gallery.”About the past we can more or less agree, tcd didn’t help, the methedone clinic and the one way traffic didn’t either. As for this building, I imagine they were told by planners they hadn’t a chance of a 15-story building since it would be visible from the college’s own courts and from Merrion Sq, they even lost a story on the 5 story Lloyd building for this reason. They did float plans for a tall building spanning this site and the site of the current Goldsmith Hall back in 2001 but it didn’t go anywhere.
TCD are being better about Pearse Street now, there is plans for another entrance on the street and the new Science Gallery, open 2 Feb will be a big asset.
