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So why is it always so? The DDDA had one of their festivals in gc square this weekend, the events looked very good, but, well, when they had the space designed oh a few months ago they obviously hadn’t thought that they would ever use it for something like this because the square looked a mess: to hold the event they had to string those crappy barriers everywhere, lots of them rubbing up against the crazy red poles and scuffing them, they also stuck signs on the red poles with cable ties. Why couldn’t the space had been laid out to allow it to be used for events without the crappiness?
If the tbm was inserted at the other end, it would only have to turned at stephen’s green; is that possible, if the station was mined could the tbm be turned in the box without digging a huge hole?
Mentioned today in the commercial prop supplement in the times:
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/commercialproperty/2007/0620/1181771384811.html
” The plans propose a 60.8 metre, 14-storey office tower above Tara Street Station. This includes a new 12 metre high €20 million station concourse with 13,000sq m (139,931sq ft) of office accommodation above in a landmark tower feature. The spokesman said the main focus ‘is to provide an improved concourse area that will cater for up to 14,500 passengers per hour at peak times’.”
The article also mentions a plan to build on the connelly station car park to provide a bus and coach station.
kefu, you obviously aren’t from east wall: there was a huge hole dug in fairview park, they are still backfilling it, one tbm was inserted at whitehall and turned at fairview, the final piece, from fairview to the exit, was tunneled by hand. As for stephen’s green, clearly they should keep going to crumlin and dig up sundrive park instead.
So what is the story with the purple woman, has she just been trysting with the suited dude or did she fall off a balcony?
Why is “close to the city center” a useful criterion for bus depot locations: they are a very low intensity land use and they don’t have much of a planning gain. The problems of priority and terminus areas is separate from the location of the depots.
I don’t see that a mainline station is the effective catalyst for regeneration you claim it to be: lots of mainline stations, our own Heuston included, have seen the area around them degenerate. This area should be regenerated, but the catalysts will be the DIT, the Luas, the redevelopment of the bus depot lands, the emergence of Phibsboro as an important urban village and, potentially the redevelopment of the station itself. Given the interconnector, I don’t see what is gained by having trains terminate here, rather than interchange at Liffey Junction and the lose of regular luas services to Liffey Junction is a major negative.
granted: http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0613/breaking17.htm
Conditions prevent the store from opening until the M50 upgrade and prevent it from opening before 11 in the morning.
Re. the Eircom building, isn’t there trouble here, RCSI owns the building and want to expand into it some time in the future, Eircom want to sell the lease to a developer and RCSI are trying to stop them to stop the developer trying to force them into a joint venture. I could have this wrong.
I don’t get this at all , wouldn’t the liffey junction luas interchange provide the same access to mainline services as a spur to broadstone, while also giving every 5 minute connectivity from the west side of phibsboro to town. What is the bonus of using this cutting for mainline rather than luas services?
There are more in Galway, good examples are the nurses residence in UCHG and the Fr Griffin Rd Tech.
It is hard to tell but if you look at the height of the balcony above the entry canopy, or take seriously the size of the tiny people near the building, it does look like 8 plus set back?
Thanks god for this: it is no longer planned to close the gpo in favour of a museum, instead the plan is to glass over the internal coutyards and include a museum as well: from the Times,
Proposals to glaze over the hidden courtyards of the GPO in Dublin and open them to the public as part of a plan to create a museum for the centenary of the 1916 Rising will be presented to Taoiseach Bertie Ahern shortly, The Irish Times has learned.
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2007/0409/1175721063271.html
Andrzej Wejchert plan would have been very good if they had kept to it and didn’t go hog wild building stumpy buildings and car parks everywhere.
Yes, I find this amazing, it seemed to me the central route and back of tcd up marlboro street routes both has strong arguements in their favour and this combination of the two has none of the advantages of either. It is completely perplexing.
I pass this house every day, it is a crying shame. The problem is it is so big, one of the biggest houses in the area and clearly anyone who could afford to buy and renovate it isn’t interested in living around here. Also, there is no garden, obviously the only thing that could happen is that someone turn it into high end apartments and, again, this area isn’t up enough to support that. It isn’t a bad area, just not a posh one. Something needs to be done soon though for 422, it is deterioating by the day.
J. Seerski, the formerly pink/red georgian looks very fine, two other georgians on Synott place are being renovated. Wonder what effect the changes to the big tree will have on the look of this area, the pub itself is being reduced in size back to the georgian building and, I think, an extra story added, or restored, as is claimed.
I think the boxes on top are terrible, they completely ruin the view of this facade from lemon street, no effort has been made with them, according to the pervasive and weird convention that anything set back is invisible.
@GrahamH wrote:
I see the ghastly red ‘Golf Corner’ Georgian has had that notorious billboard removed recently, revealing a giant panel of stock brick 🙂
The building is currently up for letting, so hopefully…As if conjured up by your post, the pink georgian was scaffolded yesterday, a couple of months ago there was some small test poultices applied, so hopefully . . .
