notjim
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I think no-one minds the farms so much as the wires coming from them, oh, and the noise if they are too close.
One amazing thing is that that ruined building on Pearse Street beside the church, the one that used to be a cinema, was, originally a factory for turning cod into domestic gas. Apparently the price of cod went up in the mid C19 and the process stopped being profitable.
yes, isn’t it terrible. it should be demolished and replaced with a more modern chimney at least three times as tall.
Has anyone seen the incredibly stylish prefab that
is being constructed on the quay side just to the west of the rail head, it looks like it might be a site office.The funny thing is that they seem to be succeeding
with manor street now the nci is open. It feels much much like a street and less like an industrial estate than the original ifsc complex. the new square will be nice, the only pity is that the apartment block on the north edge is poor and worse in the way it addresses the building to either side.Whenever you walk past they are lowering stuff into the hole. I think they made the hole too deep and when they are ready only the last 10 metres will be sticking up. In retrospect it is a pity we didn’t choose Michael O’Nuallain’s recreation of the Millenium Falcon and togetehr with the long library Dublin could be a center of Star Wars tourism, if there is such a thing.
The memorial is really terrible too, the stone by the front railing is okay, but the slabs and that spiral thing are very poor.
I think the point is that in future cars will come down Gardiner Street and buses down O’Connell Street.
Its something else, the pyramid is across the street from that, the block adjoiing Mulligans and fronting the river, I think.
Alfie Byrne road goes from East Wall road to Clontarf prom, by one end of the port tunnel. It has a little memorial to Alfie Byrne at the Clontarf prom end and an awful wind sculture that hardly moves even in a gale, by, I think, the same guy as the floozy of late memory.
fjp, lovely photos. Have you seen them from Alfie Byrne road, if you pick your spot they form a perfect pyramid and you have the hills in the background.
They are putting a pedestrian bridge across too:
it was a letter in the irish times, someone has written in worry about it and someone from the council replied. i once saw the empire state building being hit by lightening. it was awesome.
I take your point about access, you’d need to buy up what every that industrial building is just south of the Cammock and put a multistory carpark and a footbridge in. Looking on Mapflow maybe it isn’t as a big as I thought, how big is the site? How big are the buildings? I have only every seen the chimney. What about Clancy Barracks?
I don’t know this Shackleton Mill at all, what’s there?
Seoul is a funny city, there is lots of very impressive infra-structure, metro, stadiums, parks, art galleries, stuff you’d expect in a city of 10 million people but impressive because it has happened so quickly and so much was destroyed in the war. On the other hand there is little sign of planning. Most of the city is very homogenous, millions of empty bars, identical shops and cheap low-rise apartment blocks in bad condition. It is fun to visit because virtually everyone is 24 and it is filled with neon, the way the Korean district in NY is, but we shouldn’t feel to bad comparing ourselves to them, they are struggling with similar problems, maybe with more money and bigger challenges, but they seem to be having the same mixture of success and failure.
