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From The Irish Times (21/12/05)
Lad’s we’re too late 🙁
Trinity College Dublin has sold two adjoining Georgian office buildings at 5 and 6 Foster Palce in Dublin 2 for around €3 million. The college owns a considerable number of adjoining properties. Ganly Walters handled the sale. The buildings are understood to have been bought by a Dublin property developer. The two buildings were sold exactly 10 years ago for just under €700,000.
It’s just one of those drop off points for the hotels – if you look outside the Fitzwilliam there is one there, Chief O’Neills has one and there is a few knocking about around most new hotels
Not an aircoach in site
@Pepsi wrote:
I once heard that if Dublin keeps growing at the rate it has been, by 2010 it will be bigger than Los Angeles. I wonder whether this is true or not?
Fortunately not as LA is the size of Belgium
Sounds exactly like the proposal for the new home of Drogheda United that was proposed in an article in the Drogheda Independent a few months ago – construction due to start in April and supposedly ready for 2007 season (also proposed as a concert venue).
http://www.unison.ie/drogheda_independent/stories.php3?ca=34&si=1524218&issue_id=13399
@anto wrote:
u live in Drogheda Graham? and I take it u get the train to dublin, where’s the problem?
I live in Drogheda and get the train – the problem is getting up at 6:30 am, leaving the house at 7:15 am and not getting home until almost 8pm. By the time you eat you have about an hour to wind down and come 10pm you’re fit for bed. I see my wife for an hour a day and when we have kids I probably will only see them at the weekend – And as for a social life – forget it. If I could get back to living close to my place of work I most certainly would jump at the chance.
Such is the life of the long distance commuter
@Maskhadov wrote:
You only have to look to China to see what can be achieved in such a short period of time. They went from bog to high rise in just a matter of a few decades.
Yes there’s nothing like a totalitarian dictatorship to get things done!
The effect of the troubles in Nothern Ireland had a massive effect on the South, economically speaking. Ireland was associated with terrorism as this was the only thing that ever made the foreign news and you’re not going to get much foreign direct investment when you’re associated with terror – thus stagnation.
But too be fair in France in particular if they want to build a motorway through your house they will do so without any of the “niceties” that go on over here. Blame deValera for giving too much leeway in the Constitution to NIMBYs if needs be
Saw inside yesterday – a great restoration – they were still working on the upper level but hats off-looks great
@jimg wrote:
If the building to the right with the “To Let” sign is the An Post building and the green building to it’s left is Hawkins House, what is the building behind Hawkins House towering over it?
Thats the rest of Hawkins House – I think the Destruction of Dublin said it best “a brutalist slab with two green biscuit tins strapeed on”
That’s because the Railway station is before you come to the Bridge!!!:D
Scotch Hall website
http://www.scotch-hall.com/The D Hotel
http://www.thedhotel.com/d/index.aspDon’t worry – all the houses in Crumlin are soon to have a unified scheme, all extensions re-renderings etc will be disguised under wave after wave of Christmas Lights – you wont be able to see any modern additions! 🙂
I don’t think Foster Place should be linked into Temple Bar whatsoever – it’s a charming little street, why spoil it by linking it into our “British Stag Night containment unit”. Trtust me the malignancy of chain restaurants and theme bars would soon creep in.
The old AIB would make a fantastic high end restaurant, but it wouldn’t take off if it was tarred with the Temple Bar brush
@Frank Taylor wrote:
Is this building brutalist?
No just brutal
It’s a very very poor example of 60’s architecture at it was “designed” prior to the 1963 planning regulations
Graham Hickey wrote:Drogheda is such a moody, atmospherically gloomy place]Ah now – you make it sound so dramatic :rolleyes:
Get rid of Hawkins house – it’s fucking rubbish
Keep O’Connell Bridge house and restore Libery Hall – the best of the 60s
It’s called the de Lacy bridge after the founder of Drogheda Hugh de Lacy, nice bridge with a slight gradient on it. The boardwalk area in front of the building is to play host to a farmers market which will be good during the summer.
Psychologically surely it makes sense for money to be spent on good design which contributes to the area and gives those living and working in the proximity a boost – hasn’t Ballymun changed and calmed down since better design principles came into play as part of the regeneration? The emphesis on design shows that it is a vital part of the social regeneration of the area.
Where would you rather spend more time – a regenerated community street with multi-functional buildings that are in use on a 24 hour basis i.e. shops/bars/restaurant with offices and living accomodation overhead or a mono-use 9-6 (with late night til 9 on Thursdays) shopping box with little or no thought put into the design rather the throughput of shoppers that it could get?
Surely Liffey Valley stands as an example of “dismal” architecture. Pot and Kettle.
The D is quite a nice place – should be staying there in a week or so – nicely designed bar/restaurant which is as far as I’ve been inside it. The Scotch Hall centre opened the other week and is one of the better designed shopping centres I’ve been in for a while, nice scale and integrated very well with the buildings that were retained on site. It’ll be much better when all the shops & facilities open there but it’s gone down exceptionally well in Drogheda. On the Sunday after it opened it had a footfall of 54,000 visitors (which compares to the Pavillions in Swords which is of similar size had a footfall of 20,000 on its first Sunday).
Well done Gerry Barrett
This being from Owen O’Callaghan who brought us that wonderful ‘design’ (and I use that term in it’s loosest possible sense) that is the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre – grey galvanised shite, with soul destroying interior (with pretentious ‘Rotundas’ lest we forget) all set in a sea of tarmacadam. Take a bow Mr O’Callaghan, your RIAI gold medal and Sterling Prize are in the post.
Mahon Point looks exactly the same but with copper instead of that galvanised look
