notjim
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@gunter wrote:
notjim, the smiley face was intended to signal humour. You’re goin’ to make a grumpy provost.
Well too grumpy to notice “smiley faces” anyway, what are these emoticons of which you speak? Now get off my lawn!
This University of Heidelberg, first one I checked, this is the library, described as the “main university building” in the Wikipedia page.
Anyway, I am bored of this arguement and annoyed by your comfort blacket remarks; they are most unjust. I am not sentimentally attached to the lawn, but I know how prestige is determined in the academy and the little lawn is a useful asset in this regard. To blame the state of College Green on this little lawn is absurd, in fact, the enterance to TCD, the hard part you can walk on, a meeting and mingling place, is one of the few parts of College Green that works as an urban space.
Gunter this obsession of yours! anyway, you have, again, misunderstood my stand on the grass in front of Trinity, i agree, or at least generally agree with you, regarding hard landscaping in urban settings, my point regarding Trinity is that main university buildings almost always have grass in front of them, the examples I provided weren’t obscure, and for me, and for tcd, the fact the small piece of tcd-owned land in college green is in front of a university building trumps the fact it is part of an urban landscape.
I say I generally agree with you, rather than always agree with you because I have been in NYc for the last four weeks and with your obsession in mind have been looking at the small garden parks here and yes, some of them are very effective. Of course, the NYc urban parks exist in a completely different context, some NY city compositions are effective precisely because their lack the coherence, of logic, emphasises their essential muscularity.
@alonso wrote:
eh since it’s been the tallest building in the city for 40 years. What should they say – 19 times the height of a Georgian Terrace, 24 times the height of a suburban Dublin bungalow. It;s the benchmark for the city..
But alonso ins’t this is why we built the spike?
“the sort of iconic thing that Dublin lacks”
oh this terrible desire for “a sort of iconic thing”; a new expression of a time-old insecurity.
Isn’t it always the case that a good city, one with life and quality writ both large and small, finds itself assosiated with a “sort of iconic thing” as a sort of shorthand for what people love, the greatness comes first, not the icon. People love London for its great architectural set-pieces, its treasures, its playfulness and quirky off-beat fashion and its multi-layered, multi-historied, multi-cultural liveliness. Big Ben, the Eye and the funny red buses are a shorthand for that, a synecdoche; they are not the thing itself. Putting a giant ferris wheel, a big clock and funny buses in Milton Keynes wouldn’t make people love Milton Keynes instead.
Lets make Dublin a great city and we’ll find the spire and the hapenny bridge and the current liffey will make fine a fine “sort of iconic thing” and, yes, perhaps others will come along, commisioning high quality public art, for its own sake is useful here, but lets not make icons our primary concern.
https://archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?t=4043
so you press control-k to get into that little search box in the top right hand corner of your browser and then write
“site:https://archiseek.com new court building” and there you are!@cgcsb wrote:
There are also plans to demolish two Victorian houses on the NCR near Dorset Street not to far from Drumcondra to accomidate an emergency exit for the Matter Hospital Stop
Well four; two on the NCR for part of the main, only, entrance to the Mater metro and two at the other end of Leo st for ventilation and emergencies. I won’t regret the two NCR houses, they always make me sad anyway, you have a complete late Victorian terrace leading to them, Benedict terrace and then two more, obviously the orphaned remains of another terrace. They are on the Mater Site and owned by the hospital; I notice the nuns have been buying houses along Leo Street as well. The Deaf (sorry I said blind earlier) School is obviously eminently CPO’able since the primary responsibility of the owners is to deaf education, presumably better served by a purpose build, but it is a real shame this is coming down, it has a huge space at the back, surely there is a solution which saves the building?
@d_d_dallas wrote:
Is that view looking on from cloniffe rd? If so I hardly think that’s the design – isn’t there a much grander red brick building in situ that terminates the view on Cloniffe looking towards Drumcondra…
That’s St Vincent’s, the blind school and one of the few buildings with any civic presence in Drumcondra. Sadly, it is proposed to demolish this; I thought so as to create a plaza so All Ireland crowds exiting the metro would be less likely to spill out onto the road, it would be particularly weird to demolish this fine building and then build something back in the same place!
I find this hard to credit, the building isn’t on one level, as trolleys require. Maybe they want to split the front and back again?
They do seem to have an odd, anomalous, approach to entrances, from using other metro systems you would, for example, have expected smaller entrances on both sides of the ncr, along with eccles st and maybe leo st: instead they have six escalators more or less beside each other housed with two substantial entrance halls. Again, at the dcu stop, where they have plans posted, they have a small number of large entrances with substantial structures above ground, quite different from the elevator disappearing into the footpath you see elsewhere, in Paris, London, NYc and so forth. Perhaps this reflects current thinking, am I wrong, for example, in thinking the Toronto metro, which is relatively new, is similar in this regard?
@electrolyte wrote:
They have decided to allocate more floor space to office, and less to residential, given the current and predicted climates.
They are afraid peoples carpets will be damaged in the floods?
I went to the Metro North Mater Stop information meeting this evening; no big surprise; 400/398 NCR, the two red bricks on the Mater site will be demolished for an entrance, there will also be an entrance the other side of the current vehicular entrance, this will be connected to the larger hospital building which will line the NCR. Perhaps surprisingly this is it, it isn’t intended to have entrances on Eccles Street, the guy I spoke to said that this was much requested and so would be considered. There will be two houses demolished on Leo Street, by the Mater Private, for emergency exits and ventilation. Although the box looks huge, there isn’t going to be retail inside. They hope to build this towards the end of next year, after the Railway Order but before they TBM goes in. It all looks very impressive.
So this is in the obvious place but I thought it was worth posting since it is such a classic late-Victorian warehouse.
If it is Fairview it is a very cunning shot, Fairview is more filled with hedging and goal posts and headless Sean Russells and so on than the park in the photo. St Anne’s isn’t so hilly, Griffith Valley Park is too small.
GrahamH agreed with me, that counts for winning around here.
Single digit postcode? And we’re to assume it isn’t the Park?
