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According to the Commercial Property suppliment in the Times, the expected use is a department store.
no plural actually:
http://www.saveu2studio.comAccording to the Times planning list the OPW have an application in which includes the Croppy Arce. Does anyone know what they planning, the Croppy Acre is awful at the moment but it would be creepy to build on it with it being a grave.
Ah the poor Loopline bridge, clean it, paint it and it we’d learn to love it. Any bridge there would create a visual break. It is convenient that there is a break there anyway in the city grain and fine victorian cast iron bridge is as good at celebrating that break as something lighter and more obviously built in the context of the newer buildings to the east.
Looks great of the outside, a really lovely thing, I smile every time I see it. I amn’t sure about the red light gantries they have fitted to the front by Clare Lane, are they going to hang banners off them?
To answer BTH, I agree the Georges Quay towers are great, but I amn’t sure that they are all that visible from further up the river, the river curves and they are blocked by all the five and six storey buildings in between.
Well that’s great about the Sunday Times articles. They had last Sunday’s Sunday Times in my local Chinese take-away, which is pretty fast, so I only read the first part of the bridge article. One thing mentioned was that the bridge was unpopular around the end of the nineteenth century. The bridge everyone hates now is the loopline bridge. It is true that it would be better if it wasn’t there at all, it ruins views of the Customs House both from along the river and from Gardiner Street, but, given that it is there and there is no real way we can get rid of the DART bridge, shouldn’t we treat it better and learn to love it too. It would probably be quite fine cleaned and painted and uncluttered with ads. In his book Frank MacDonald advocates replacing it with something ligher, but I think we would be losing some interesting idustrial age masonry without really gaining a clear vista.
Are any of these snugs still used as snugs, that is, still reserved for women. That was certainly true of garavans until recently.
ps shop street runs from eyre square to murrays off-licence, don’t believe anyone who tells you different.
Any of the old style bars in new buildings. McTurkels springs to mind, its like being back in the south-east of England where I lived for several years, pubs in the south of England are almost all awful because they have too clear an idea of who they want to appeal to and so you can’t relax. The old pubs here are nice because they are attractive without being prescriptive. Some of the new bars are fun because they are so cool, but in my opinion there is only one bar I’ve been to that manages to be nice in the old-fashioned way of begin comfortable and relaxed and that is Forum on Parnell Street.
There is a park in Bucharest, near the center, with a skate park. It was pretty nice, a lot of fun to walk past. They had a quarter pipe and a few ramps and some features made to look like normal park fixtures, benches and kerbs, only in steel instead of stone. There was a dj and about thirty of forty skate boarders, mostly late teens, some older. It was an interesting feature in the park, and like I say, fun to watch, mostly because skaters have an admirable habit of only trying tricks they can’t do, so they are forever falling off.
I guess the point was that it was a big park, there is a problem with small urban parks.
so what ever happened with this. was the develouper punished, don’t you need planning permission to knock things down as well as build them? is there a new planning application for the site?
I have to say I’m shocked anyone dislikes the Poolbeg chimneys, I really like them. One nice thing is you often catch sight of them from places you wouldn’t expect to be able to see them from, like the steeple described by Proust or the Twin Towers from the Village before Sept 11. Liberty Hall isn’t so bad either, people have a thing against it because they consider it a symbol of the seventies and maybe it is a bit bland, but there are far worse buildings in Dublin.
The situation is TCD is that they got planning permission for a gym, the plan was to have a plazza area at the Westland row, Pearse Street corner. The DDDA were always against this, they want a building there. Elan have now offered to give money towards the building programme in return for a long-term lease on a building on the corner, the new planning application is to allow that, it is hoped it will go through easily since the last one was approved and this one is more in line with the plans for the area: it restores the street line. One contensious issue is that TCD wants to retain the walkway, quite rightly the DDDA is against this since it removes people from the street. The other change to the planning application is that it is now intended to retain the brick part of the rail support. The DDDA report on the area is on the web. As for the Georgian buildings, about time. If only the college would restore the Pease Street houses to retail and residential use, nonewithstanding their plan to build behind them.
Well there is only one person actually living on O’Connell street, I saw that in the paper, so the identity of the street to those living on it isn’t so important.
Hey, does anyone know anything about that crazy read box and religeous statue thing about half way up it, is it official or did someone just come along and put it there?
I wish they weren’t going to move the floozie to Pearse Street, she’ll look even worse there.
