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€210m Balbriggan development given the go-ahead
05/09/2007 – 17:29:12The Drogheda Port company has today been given the go-ahead to develop Bremore Harbour in Balbriggan, at a cost of around €210 million.
Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey told today’s meeting of the Cabinet that he intends to allow the company enter into a joint venture arrangement to develop the facility.
It’s intended the Balbriggan port will deal with vessels of larger capacity than nearby Drogheda Port
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http://WWW.BREAKINGNEWS.IE
How will this affect dublin port?
Will it increase the chances of re-locationIts great to check back onto this site and see this progress (of sorts)
Thanks for the work posting the pics Morlan, and the live cam, sweet!! 😉
What site do you get the traffic cam shot from? I have a http://www.dublincity.ie page but the cams only go up to no.98 or something
That is true
Its an idea to appease both sides
if the road is not seen then it would really be a win win, no?What about sinking the road?
20 ft below street level and vista is undisturbed
They did it central park here 150 yrs ago and it works brilliantlykefu wrote:Particularly depressing considering there’s been a lot of effort put in on Dorset St/Drumcondra Road these past five years. How can DCC let this stuff through. It seems like the only way something like this would be blocked is if they had wanted to build it double that height. Like Frank McD says – these are the future slums of Dublin.[/Quote:I would think that the outer suburb type areas will be the future slums……..(oil based global economy)This looks like a detention centre of some sort
Given it’s a flagship public building for the area, is this the high water mark of design DCC are setting for the environs of Dorset Street for the next ten years?
Thats truly depressing looking, especially for an ‘up and coming” area.
There seems to be a production-line churning out this garbage.@corcaighboy wrote:
…………… just on the issue of adding extra floors to a high rise at a later date…is that really feasible and has it been done before in Ireland? I presume it would mean an extra 3 or 4 floors only or am I wrong. I guess the aesthetics may change somewhat. Certainly a good idea and it displays some degree of forward thinking.
@mickeydocs wrote:
……………………… and one really has the impression that Belfast is a larger city than Dublin………….
Cork city – pop.119.143 (2006 census)
metro cork – pop.274,000Belfast city – pop.277,391 (2001 census)
Belfast metro – pop.579,554Dublin City – pop.505,739 (2006 census)
Dublin metro – pop 1.6 million (estimataed by CSO to reach 2.1 million by 2021)So in summary:
Cork = teeny tiny
Belfast = tiny
Dublin = small to medium
😀 😀Some vintage O’Connell st
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[ATTACH]4901[/ATTACH]Value of mural painted over by transport workers
Irish Independent
TRANSPORT workers in London have painted over a mural by world-renowned graffiti artist Banksy, erasing a piece of art estimated to be worth €370,000.
The mural, depicting a scene from the Quentin Tarantino movie ‘Pulp Fiction’ in which Samuel L Jackson and John Travolta are holding bananas instead of guns, was
spray-painted on the side of an electricity substation around five years ago.@Frank Taylor wrote:
Tall alone is not immpressive…………………….I’d be impressed if they built something that spanned the river…………………………..
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Maybe something like this Frank
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The Collosus at Rhodes……..now thats a ‘Landmark Gateway”:DThe design looks OK, nothing more and it will be the poor cousin of the eventual U2 tower
I’m hoping the glass has a ‘blue’ tint as some previous post mentioned because it looks a kind of green to meIt may have been nice to keep a wilderness side to it
but it would be pretty dangerous tryin to maneouver through it, and the impending lawsuits would give it a fairly short lifespan i’m sure!
I’m looking foward to this opening, it will be a great addition to the city, new york (in my opinion) just goes from strength to strength
Pearse Tower will be closed in 3weeks – april18Not long to capture some spectacular pano’s of the city!!
Anyone with an interest could get some real cracking shotsIrish Independant
It’s room with a view as spot of make-do-and-mend turns iconic tower block into high-rise art over city
IT’S a hotel unlike any other – with panoramic views across Dublin Bay – but it’s only going to be open for three weeks.
Housed in one of the remaining iconic tower blocks of north Dublin, it will be demolished next month to make way for a new town centre. Welcome to Hotel Ballymun – an arts project based on the 15th floor of the Thomas Clarke Tower that has lured southsiders across the river, keen to see how the area has been utterly transformed.
The beds are cobbled together from kitchen chairs and mattresses, but there are spectacular views from Tallaght to Howth. And while there mightn’t be en suite bathrooms, the room rate is discretionary with a ‘suggested’ fee of €50.
The most bohemian hostelry in Dublin, it boasts nine double bedrooms and two singles but is only open until April 18 next because it’s due to be demolished next month.
The brainchild of artist Seamus Nolan, Hotel Ballymun is a temporary arts project that includes short-stay hotel rooms.
Facilities include a disco room, a reading room, a garden room, and a glass-panelled burnt room (bedroom which was set on fire). All the fittings are made from discarded furniture left behind by former residents and include a chair made from books, beds made from an old armchair, and a bedside table made from an old video player, a stool and some glass.
Flats have been knocked into each other to make the hotel, and thankfully, it includes a working lift.
“It’s blown away the impression that Ballymun was a no-go area,” said project manager Paul McAree.
“I think it’s brilliant,” said Tanya O’Callaghan, who lives nearby and works in the hotel. “It’s very artistic and the view is spectacular. You’ll never see anything like this again.” Others aren’t so convinced.
“This is my old flat, I was the last tenant here,” Jane Thompson said. “It’s an awful shock to come back and see what they’ve done.”
Paul Melia
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…………….nice shots of the space dating from the ’30s (when the old high line railroad, now long defunct, ran right through the building) up to the present day…….
Just as a matter of interest the old high line railroad is being developed into a park due to open next year sometime. its in a sad state but promises to be a very unique experience with a different view of the city
High Line Facts Constructed 1929-1934
Spans 22 blocks, from 34th Street to Gansevoort Street
1.45 miles long
6.7 acres of space atop elevated rail deck
30-60 feet wide and 18-30 feet high
Built to support 2 fully loaded freight trains
Primary construction materials: steel and reinforced concrete
Owner: The City of New Yorkhttp://www.thehighline.org/design/prelim_design/index.htm
http://www.thevillager.com/villager_203/workonhighline.html
I highly recommend taking a look at these sites!
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Press release that was sent out earlier:
…………“We will be running a major international competition to commission a piece of art to go on the roof of the WatchTower,†explained Harry Crosbie, Chairman, Point Village Ltd. “The details will be made public in the next few weeks but there will be a substantial prize fund. ..………………The Point Theatre, which is to be expanded to 15,000 capacity laid out in the style of a curved Roman amphitheatre which will be one of the great venues in Europe, allowing the intimacy of a small venue, will cater for 2 million visitors each year, while a double size Vicar Street is also planned for the development………
Is there any more info on how the artwork will sit on the roof?
Will it sit atop and be actually part of the building ?Also is there any more info or renders of the new point interior or exterior
(most exciting part of this whole project imo)I would love to see this particular area of ballymun develop as some sort of artistic haven
If they could keep this block, i’m picturing it brightly painted, artistic types hanging out, with a real bohemian
feel to it. Like a mini greenwich village(nyc) of the 60s and 70s.Although it is hard to imagine this in ballymun, for obvious reasons
@Peter FitzPatrick wrote:
there needs to be some scaling up around both & preferably not exactly symmetrical DDDA ! otherwise its just gonna look like two big dicks :rolleyes:
Yes, brilliantly put!
I like the new design , a little bland, hopefully the next round of changes will improve that………..
Yes good point
There should be a blanket ban on any structure over 3 floors – effective immediately
This isn’t new york or tokyo or barcelona or sydney or melbourne or rio or london or most city
in the rest of the civized world.
This is Dublin and we dont do – so called ‘sustainable development’
It is every citizens right, in this great country, to be entitled to a front and back garden with a large park minutes away
Let the next generation worry about sustainability
Just like the global warming crisis
