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the platform11 site has good hot under the collar commentary on this:
is that the tower for salthill naz78, the one with the heritage park? i don’t think it is such a serious proposal.
surely it isn’t so hard to solve anyway, maybe a few studs to stop sliding and then some of that paint that never quite dries further up. that won’t stop drunk people, but then climbing buildings when drunk is part of being alive and 20 and nothing will stop you.
If that grandiose Trinity Plan had gone ahead, what would have happened to the vaulted ceiling? It is something I worried about at the time. Still, there was never so much danger of IR and TCD cooperating, they couldn’t even agree on relatively minor adjustments to the line crossing TCD.
You don’t hear so much talk of all of that now, the only current plan is to put a gym on the corner of the actual Trinity site.
That’s pretty cool about the w counties, I never knew. I was asking around on this topic and someone said they thought some of the river names were preceltic. Does anyone know?
It’s hard to see what to do here, but I will say that Moore Street is great at the moment and will be a real loss, justified or not. It’s like being on Canal Steet. Hopefully Mary Abbey Street will take over.
from what they said on the radio all they actually decided was that it was more dangerous than grafton steet, these were the only streets they examined in detail and yes, o’connell was the more dangerous of the two.
what’s important is dominant materials and the parapet lines, fix those and demand quality and then street will be fine with a modern building.
You are right Graham about the ngi, i went to have a closer look today and they are wood. thank god for that.
its not so bad in my view, likably even. funny really, i have been dreading this for ages since the description made it sound aweful and well, i didn’t think it was. its a bit corporate, probably not as nice as having no pattern, but i imagined something much much worse.
i wish i hadn’t been told because now i realise that the windows above the merrion sq enterance of the ng is also upvc and that’s really annoying me.
as for leinster house, keep the main railings, they are handsome, they enclose the space and helps keep it nice, but remove the railings seperating the main open space from the library and the museum.
The banking hall is going to be a central point of service for college administrative functions, various parts of the admin are monving to the warren of rooms above and around the banking hall, as described in the news article the college has done some swaps so that it now has the upper floors of most of that block. The gas building on d’olier street is going to be the school of nursing and midwifery. there is a planning application in
for various alterations.The ne development was going to include retail but the precise amount was under dispute with the Townsend street resident assoc, the whole thing is on hold now because there is no money, but some plan will be produce soon for at least a gym and one research building, either there or on the visitor car park behind goldsmith hall, the students have been promised something and there is a huge need for lab space.
the current building work is just this itac building which was to be joined to the new physics building by an atrium, now unaffordable, so it will now just stand beside it, it replaces the old gymnasium, the cut stone building currently coming down.
i guess the reason they were allowed ruin pearse street was that there were road widening plans, now gone. what i don’t understand is why they were allowed to build the theatre with no pearse street enterance.
Graham, the activity in the tcd ne corner is the ITAC building which will be immeadiately behind the physics building, ie south of the rail line, the rest of that develoupment is still being discussed and depends on various factors, the original project collapsed when elan pulled out. the big test for tcd now is how will they treat the gas building and the forster street banking hall.
they don’t need to buy land all the way from broadstone to the airport, there is already a cutting isn’t there heading north.
