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Originally posted by alphasun
Idealism aside, a colossal stylised harp-shaped tower that would fulfiull the same tourist function as the Eiffel tower is one possibility[/B]lol! begorrah.
Originally posted by fjp
Don’t forget that the observation deck on Liberty Hall is used for paper storage.Makes you think…
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makes me think that is a very bad place for storing paper in. it will get moist and expand and contract something horrific. But thats just the bookbinder in me talking.
RE: New Zeland,
They use the 13-storey Novotel Hotel in Auckland for ‘rap jumping’ – i.e. you start running off the top of the building and then keep running until a harness grabs you, hmmm… wonder if Siptu would cover that in their facilities insurance.bendybench
http://www.londonbloc.com/bendyben.htmis it just me or does the location of this bridge make absolutley no sense at all.
I could at a stretch understand if it was in the location where Mellowes bridge is, with Queens Street and Bridgefoot Street leading onto it, but it strikes me as being at odds with the T junction with Ushers Island.
some folk in a UK skyscraper forum discussing our tallest buildings.
They call Liberty Hall “cute” as it is only 13 stories high 😀
http://www.hoogbouw.nl/uksf/cgi-bin/printpage.cgi?forum=8&topic=3anyone know the rationale for the double length ‘bendy’ buses that Dublin Bus bought recently. Surely the double deckers made more sense on roads where congestion is a problem?
i think it’s this one here. didn’t realise it was in that bad nick.
thought it used to be a electrical shop though.
are they the ones opposite Kevin Street tech? And did all council flats have those Sunlight Chambers-esque designs under the balconies?
i’m presuming any planning permission that will block the view across the liffey from the gardens will be kiboshed though
Having an appropriate microstructure – i.e. a supportive family doesn’t always make up for not having an appropraite social infrastucture. The Council/Corporation does have a responsibility to maintain and supply resources and facilities to such areas, and when this doesn’t happen the product is such ‘types’, especially in 2nd or 3rd generations.
I believe Fettercairn, along with Brookefield, between 1982-1990 was probably one of the worst housing estates in Dublin. I still live there now by the way, but it is much improved.
It took much vigilantism to get the place sorted out, as police or Dublin Corporation had little or no interest in the upkeep of the area. It became, in the Corporations eyes at least, a place to put trouble families, thus ghettoising problems. These days it is much more settled, and better run by Dublin South County Council, has a local café, stables for the horses, and along with Brookfield, many rehabilitation centres and Outreach projects. The travelling community is also well integrated within the community, something which is not often seen in other areas.
I don’t believe Ballymun or Fettercairn were any worse than the other, but rather they were a product of the same attitute to low income families.
I lived in (and was almost born in the lift!) of one of the flats in Balbutcher Lane, Ballymun.
Although the flats inside were beautiful in their day, underfloor heating, the works, the problem was there was no facilities, and a sense of neglect was all pervasive. Many people, then and now, were cocooned inside the flats, due to dodgy lifts, lack of policing on the ground, wide open areas with no natural congregation aeas (such as cafés) etc.
Around 1982 around 20 families (including ourselves) from our block got moved out to Fettercairn in Tallaght, again with no facilities. Shoving low income families into unsupportable environments is helpful how?
I think you will find that the social problems of Ballymun (and places such as Fatima Mansions etc.) are functions of corralling people into ‘lets worry about it later’ urban projects.
These people aren’t inherently bad, and I’m amazed that some of you would take that view
ah, now that pic looks more convincing than the other one that has been bated around:
http://www.starwars.com/databank/location/jediarchives/img/movie_bg.jpg
it has a good few units subletted inside it as it is. Had one ourselves for a while.
Wonder if it will go to developer for apartments or for futher factory/unit subletting when they move?
on dc3’s theme – just back from the UK where they are advertising a Doors Open Day in Scotland, where stately houses previously closed are opened up.
Originally posted by Peter FitzPatrick
west dublin where i live has been neglected in every way possible, the authorities were happy to dump thousands of people out in this architectural hell hole and run away, leaving us to rely on nothing but busses….if any of you have ever gotten the 56A you’ll know what i’m talking about, on top of that the clondalkin QBC is still years away and the Tallaght QBC just does not work.
absolutley, as a resident of Fettercairn I am in walking distance of the Luas line and as I gave up on the 56A and the 77 as a bad bet years ago (1 to 1.5 hrs into town for 13 mile trip) it is the first time i have reconsidered the option of drving into town. Am looking forward to the service being up.
looks like a screenshot from some 3d game! i like the current staircase leading up the cinema level though, brought my nephew there before and he looved walking up it with the spot lights above.
