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Lexingotn, could you tell me how to actually make images appear in you post, as opposed to a link appearing?cheersHere’s a photo of the shearwater development, can’t make it out in too much detail due to the boats in the foreground, but still enough to appreciate it’s positive addition to the quayside, fits in well with the architecture of the area i must say
UCC’s new brookfield campus partially opened for use yesterday, had a look in, really impressive, much nicer internally than externally, theyve incorporated the old house itself very well into the development, some very nice lecture theatres too. a job very well done.
Well, good to see there is some serious attempt to the redevelopment of horgans quay, but im sure i speak for nearly everyone in saying this is a disappointing and uninspired proposal.it has no distinguishing features as such, save the curius plaza type thing, it really would be such a pity to waste such a valuable development site on a lowrise boring proposal like this, weve made too many mistakes like this in cork in the past, this really is an opportunity to put cork on the international architecture map, and create a vibrant new city quarter.This proposal doesnt complement the water street scheme at all, and would make the latters impact more severe, even though i am all for water street, dont get me wrong, but as part of an overall integrated docklands scheme.but as lexington put it, there are more propsals, more to most peoples ideas, which are more likely to be chosen over this one.
The now-to-go ahead extension of the boole you mentioned is to be developed to the east of the current building, not in front of it , if that’s what you feared. There really isnt a whole lot of room where it is to be built, i saw the drawing on the examiner, from outside the o rahilly building towards the library. From what i could make out it seems as if it’s to be built over the avenue towards the gates on college road, which would be a real pity if im right, as in my opinion this is the nicest entrance to the college, affording great views of the quad on the way in.the design looks pretty good, fits in well with the surroundings, the same firm has designed libraries for harvard and yale among others in the us, so we can rest assured it’ll be a quality job.should be complete around early 2007 sometime i believe. i agree with whoever complained about the “blue-grey” building next to it, thats the o rahilly building, doesnt fit in well at all, shouldnt be so bad when all those new trees mature though. That’s what the whole area from the boole to the student centre is lacking, some tree-cover, very open as it is, can be bleak on a wet day.all we can do is wait, but the signs are good for ucc!
Does anyone know what’s going on at the william o brien site on bandon road? there’s been groundwork going on there for the last few weeks, are there any intentions of developing this site for commercial/retail purposes? I do remember hearing about ward anderson’s plans for a cinema there a few years back, but havent heard anything since. Further out the road there seems to be a large development in the works also, any info?What about the dockyard in passage west, i saw drawings for quite an attractive apartment scheme a few years back, coupled with marina i think, i havent heard anything though since, and there has been no activity down that way that i know of. quite a pity actually, it was aesthetically refreshing, and would have served a major improvement to the towns streetscape, aswell as an interesting feature on entering the upper harbour for boats.was this proposal turned down?for what reasons?any info appreciated
