notjim
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Is it on Richmond Road?
PS Yesterday ctesiphon told us about taking a date to the AAI awards exhibition: rules mean nothing to someone like that.
I was convinced the warehouse was the wool shed on spencer dock, but I went round and it wasn’t: did find a planning notice on it, a gym, as good a use as any. I wonder if they will remember it used to have a cupola before it was stabilized with a galvanized roof.
I am sure the 1897 building is close to were I am sitting (Westland Road) but can’t quite picture where I have seen it, is it the school behind Pearse Station?
Close: DCU and Ballymun are on the site of Albert College; it is Glasnevin though, it is on Ballymun road just north of Met Eireann, the church tower is the little protestant church beside the Bons, its pyramidal roof clearly the inspiration for both Met Eireann and Glasnevin Catholic church.
No, I admit it is a bit obscure and was posted more as a curio, I mean there are actual cow sheds, the planning notice say “demolish cow sheds for blah blah blah apartments etc”. It is behind a terrace of houses, the old farm house, which I would guess as c.1800, has a run of late Victorian red bricks attached to it. The church with the pyramidal roof might be recognizable?
. . or cut it in two and only seen it three-d when we meet. 103 USD in the end. You can get Sackville St with trams for c2 USD, but this is rare, I haven’t seen it before, There is an OCS with rubble and destruction from 1916 which I have seen for sale three times now, but it always goes for c100.
I just missed this on ebay, it went for more than I wanted to spend but I am kind of in mourning; look at it, it is 1860 at the latest and it is amazing through the viewer, the scale, the space, the formality and then the funny old bridge.
In other news McDowells, the Happy Ring House, have applied to get rid of their mosaic and change their shop front; odd, you’d think “charming” would be a positive for a Jewellers.
Okay, I was confused by all the lines. I still don’t really get it I am afraid, what is the main point: you think a new road should be built radiating diagonally from the junction of townsend steet and hawkins st? Why?
But missarchi you seem to be widening roads, taking land from TCD, demolishing buildings on fleet steet, building a car tunnel and adding car parking: facilitating vehicular through traffic. This is all wrong.
@Peter FitzPatrick wrote:
ah yes what might have been, i believe the rationale for the shot peening came from a worry within dcc that its natural reflective surface would be a serious distraction for motorists, hurtling along at 10km per hour
Don’t think I have forgotten that you called my remedy tacky.
You know Peter I am sure this isn’t true but we are of one mind, my first thought was: great, they can polish away the shot-peening. I am sure the only reason it was done was that everyone enjoying the word peening, but what a pity.
@notjim wrote:
Sorry, I wasn’t clear, I mean there is a second, hence yellow, notice up on some parts of the mall site, specifically, I think, the Fingal building: I will read it on the way in tomorrow.
So actually it is the Royal Dublin Hotel, including No. 42, they are applying for separate planning permission to demolish the hotel for a four story plus recessed penthouse over basement, retail on ground, offices otherwise, to brace 42 during the work and then to restore it; change of use to gallery subject to the original application.
Yes; we are drifting off topic. You see the urban space first and then the university building as a part of it, I see the university first and then the urban square in front of it. Hard landscaping is often best for urban spaces, ironically in the context of this discussion some of our most british spaces, the castle, the imma quad, are paved but university main buildings are almost always fronted by grass and because research universities live and die on some peculiar metric of prestige it is important for them to exhibit trophies like a grass fronted neo-classical or palladian building, who should win, well here we have different loyalties.
