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- Quote:Originally posted by Craig Davis
Speaking of Nassau St. is there any news on the possible development of the strip of land between the Trinity cricket pitch and and the street?according to the minutes of the sites and facilities committee meeting there has been informal discussion with the cc and they are informally enthusiastic.
they have a picture of a “notional scheme” and it looks great.
isn’t there stuff that gets dropped by one ship in rotterdam and then picked up by another one, ie rotterdam is where it gets moved from a long-distance cargo ship to a short-distance one or visa versa, i mean i don’t know i’m asking.
other things that are wrong:
it looks so messy and the exterior seems to be impossible to keep clean
it is cluttered inside
it is hard to work out how to move between the ground floor and level one
its hard to know what level two is for
its ulgy
awkward circulation space, feels unpleasant inside in way that for eg the jarvis centre doesn’t
isn’t it wierd about hotels, historically the hotel was one of the nicest building in any town, now that is rarely true and jurys must be one of the worst.
on a related note, i never understand why people complain about an-taisce objecting, their role is to articulate the heritage perspective, abp then take that into consideration when deciding. if you don’t like the decision then your fight is with abp for agreeing with an taisce, not with an taisce for making the arguement in the first place.
as i understand it, its a commercial development, with some sort of subsidy coming as a surcharge on leases is the area.
this is a hard one, the building doesn’t look too bad, but it is too high for the street and for the gaiety. on the other hand, south king street is desparate, it looks like it would have been good planning to allow it.
roche would be good and on the north quays too, we need something a bit more interesting on the north docks.
this doesn’t show you much:
So, this was discussed in the times today, it makes it sound very nice, some buildings, but, in return, views of the cricket pitch.
it is hard to see how this would work in practice, if the buildings have any depth the views will be narrow slices, maybe the buildings could have triangular footprints, or, even better, the development might create viewing platforms back from the current line of the wall and rail.
the article also appears to confirm that the dcc have indicated that they won’t allow the planned demolishions on pearse street which is good. also, if, as is possible, coach parking is moved to pearse street, tcd will be glad of edwarding shopfronts, they will be able to lease them out to carrols, blarney woolen mills and so on.
he designed the holocaust museum in berlin and, most famously, won the competition to design the replacement for the twin towers in nyc. he is now active all over, in particular he has a dramaric new extension being built for the ROM in toronto.
he previously designed a building for ireland, a ship-like mixed-use building for carlise peir in dun laoighre, but lost the competition for this commission. this time he was more successful. the developer each time is the same.
