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Never seen the decorative border that runs below the clerestory windows before, or the one along the frieze for that matter. . .peculiar that they got left there. .they’re hardly recent are they. . . paint or mosaic. .or both? Any takers. . .
They’re paint – I’ve seen them up close from the organ loft.
The shortlist has been announced for the Carbuncle Cup, BD’s award for the ugliest building in the UK completed in the last 12 months. Despite a flurry of nominations for buildings in Ireland, only one made the final cut. Designed by WDR & RT Taggart in Belfast, St Anne’s Square was called a “neo-classical, pastiche mess†by one contributor. The £100m leisure, commercial and residential development is in the city’s Cathedral Quarter in a major site of regeneration in Belfast.
Some real nice shots of it here
http://www.nobodyhome.ie/57dc/dromorecastle.htmlMight be easier to drop that plan and convert this one, as all bridges, rights of way etc would still be intact… lift the line.. lay a path, signage.. done
Receiver appointed to Citywest Hotel
Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:55A receiver has been appointed to Citywest Hotel and Golf Club today on foot of a request from Bank of Scotland Ireland.
The hotel, in Saggart, Co Dublin, has been open for 18 years and is owned by well-known businessman Jim Mansfield.
Mr Mansfield has not commented but the hotel’s chief executive Sean Whelan has described the decision to appoint a receiver as premature. He said they are considering their legal options.
Mr Whelan said the hotel has been and still is in negotiations with what he called a substantial investor to buy the entire property.
It is believed that HSS, the company which owns Citywest, owes Bank of Scotland Ireland €180m.
The receiver, Martin Ferris of Ferris & Associates, intends appointing an operator to continue trading the business as a going concern. Around 400 people work there.
HSS consists of Citywest Hotel, Conference Centre, Leisure and Golf Resort. The appointment also includes the assets of Jeffel, a land holding company.
Other properties owned by Jim Mansfield also at Saggart, are not affected by the receivership.
These include Palmerstown Golf Club, Finnstown Hotel and Weston Airport.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0706/citywest.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Background re Tom Phillips
Tom Phillips is Managing Director of Tom Phillips & Associates, Ireland’s largest town planning and economic consultancy, with offices in Dublin, Cork and Mullingar. He is a Chartered Town Planner and an Urban Designer.He has led many high profile planning projects including The Aviva Stadium, Lansdowne Road; Beacon Quarter, Sandyford; Corrib Gas Field, Co Mayo; IKEA Ballymun; Grangegorman, Dublin 7; MacDonagh Junction, Kilkenny; Co-Located Hospitals in Dublin, Cork and Limerick, and the Convention Centre, Spencer Dock.
Tom has an in-depth knowledge of the planning and development process, and his skills in negotiation and advocacy have been put to good use in the many Oral Hearings which he has led. Tom is also a part-time lecturer in the Department of Planning and Environmental Policy, UCD.
Drawings and images here,
http://www.irishrail.ie/projects/dart_underground_documents.aspWhat a fine shop front No.26 had at one time…
http://two.archiseek.com/2010/1863-no-26-grafton-street-dublin/
Some new photos from Irish Georgian Society
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=183090&id=98882993873&l=e4efd6e4abNow I’m staring to imagine seeing those doors everywhere on the list but I’m not that old so it’s probably in my head.
Of course Bishop Duffy is obv (now that he’s retired) in favour or merging Clogher and Armagh dioceses… St. Macartan’s is probably going to become a very large parish chuch.
This looks like an interesting read
Journal of Historical Geography, 28, 4 (2002) 508±533
doi:10.1006/jhge.2002.0441The construction and destruction of a colonial
landscape: monuments to British monarchs in
Dublin before and after independence
Y. Whelanhttp://www.ggy.bris.ac.uk/personal/YvonneWhelan/HistoricalGeographyArtice.pdf
It suggests Robert Stewart according to a map in the article
I see one in dia.ie
CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CORK HILL, ROYAL EXCHANGE
Date: 1765
Nature: Statue of George III, presented to merchants of Dublin by Duke of Northumberland, 1765.
Refs: J. Warburton, J. Whitelaw and R. Walsh, History of the City of Dublin (1818), I, 522; W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II, 484,487
