Rory W
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I have no objection to the use of scaffolding as a billboard as long as (a) the item is temporary and (b) work is actually taking place on the site. What I do object to is ordinary buildings being covered with banners when no work is happening a la Burger King on O’Connell Street and the Cornerstone Pub on Wexford Street.
PS I work in adland so I’m not a complete commercial whore or looney lefty
@Thomond Park wrote:
From RTE Interactive
“The Bay
A look at the port and docklands in Dublin and how the opening of the Dublin Port tunnel will help the busy area.
Wednesday RTÉ ONE 7.30pm “This should be an interesting programme and should help clarify a lot of the detail surrounding a lot of projects. What annoys me about so many urban planning & environment programmes are the 730pm slot they are put into directly competing with the show with the highest viewing figures thereby depriving these highly informative and well researched pieces of local television from a mainstream audience. 🙁
Because people who watch soaps in the majority would not watch a show like this – whereas Soap avoiders (like myself) tend to prefer shows like this. So it makes sense to cater for people who would watch the show – theres only a few hours of prime airtime so at least its on at a reasonable time and not buried after 11 at night
@fergus wrote:
wasn’t this sold/bought only a few years ago and was the most expensive property purched/boufght in terms of price per metre sq. in dublin at the time?
Is that true?
If so has it been beaten?
What is if this isn’t/wasn’t?
That was the other Kiosk – the one at the junction down at Jury’s Balls bridge which now is an o’brien’s sandwich franchise
@alpha wrote:
does anyone know when construction on the heuston gate building is due to start? that building was approved months ago.
The whole site has just gone up for sale by tender so it’ll be a while before anything is built there. Good to see the state (and eircom boo) actually getting the planning done prior to selling to a developer at least the state is then maximising the value of the land for a change
The reason that the Sean O’Casey bridge opens onto such a short stretch of navigation is that the Matt Talbot bridge is the first permanent barrier to navigation up the liffey. If the bridge didn’t open it would be the next permanent barrier – then when the Calatrava Bridge is built at Macken Street people would say why bother having that open if people can only get as far as the Sean O’Casey Bridge. Once that is built, when it comes to the proposed new footbridge between Sir John Rogersons quay (between Bensoon and Forbes Street) and the North Wall – why bother making this a swing bridge if the Macken Street and Sean O’Casey Bridges didn’t open – its all about knock on effects.
It was a good call to make this an opening bridge
@Thomond Park wrote:
New page 😮
If there was ever a correct time to indulge in pastiche lighting it must be to replace those lamps around the O’Connell monument.
Not at this stage, would look completely out of character with the rest of the street now. Perhaps a contemporary interpretation of the lamps though
@AndrewP wrote:
Also, the black barriers are only submerged at high tide. When I went to have look, they were jutting up high above the water. Very ugly and surely unneccessary
Alas they are necessary these days no matter if they do ruin the aesthetic
Attached is apic of the gateshead bridge where you can see simiar bariers
What a moron!
Perhaps he finds the countryside being encroached on with acres of unsustainable one-off and suburban housing.
@john bedford wrote:
does anyone know what’s going on in blanchardstown shopping centre?? there is a lot of construction what are they building?
thanks
Heard talk of a 17 storey Hotel to be built there – don’t know if its the same thing though
DublinLimerick wrote:Rory W, I agree – bars should be places for everyone: to drink, to eat something, to interact with other people in a spirit of conviviality and in a good-natured manner]I’d go beyond that and ban any new drinking barns altogether
BTW – didn’t see one bomber-jacked thug (sometimes called a ‘bouncer’) at any of the cafe bars in Brussels
Having had to run shoeless to my gate barely making my flight, due to the security checks and having queued for 80 mins (from 5:40am) PLEASE BUILD ANOTHER TERMINAL (yes I know I’m shouting) and while I’m ranting Aer Lingus – bring more bloody breakfasts you useless shower
Please do Belgian style cafe bars – just back from Brussels and the whole experience was fantastic. Imagine being in places you can talk in, get a seat (no standing), get decent waiter service, places that attract families, couples, people reading papers, someone in for a bite to eat, or a coffee, or a beer – the whole experience is a pleasure. You would sit and nurse a drink for up to an hour rather than pour it down your throat (less agro later perhaps) – good call Minister McDowell, good call.
Oh and the beer & food is great and a good beer will only cost about €2,50
Although I see the building planned is six stories (don’t know if that’s over basement or not) either way its taller than the Harcourt Street Buildings so I wonder is it a bit of pastiche after all???
Has anyone else noticed the awful neon signs in “the garden of Eden” pub on Eden Quay very close to O’Connell Bridge flashing away about “live adult dancing” and “private lap dancing” surely this sort of tack is covered in the IAP and should be removed asap! (not that I’m a prude or anything – just think it gives the wrong impression)
@ctesiphon wrote:
Headstones lying flat on the ground are called slab graves (or slab stones) as far as I know- don’t know if this applies to headstones that were formerly upright and have been laid flat. There are also a couple of them behind Dublin Civic Offices, at the top of the hill above the amphitheatre- almost completely illegible now.
The ones in Wolfetone Park were moved to the edge prior to the redesign (ahem) of the park. What concerns me now is their future, in light of the planning application for the redevelopment of the site adjacent to, i.e directly south of, the park, with which the park shares a boundary.Are they redeveloping the FAS building? If so – good, it’s awful particularly when viewed from the park with its barbed wire on the rere wall.
What’s going in its place?
And anyone know what’s happening to St. Mary’s Church conversion to a boozer which must be into its 4th year at this stage…
@Graham Hickey wrote:
Dundalk’s new one will be better though – we’ve more parking spaces than you 🙂
Yeah okay the college, and the bypass – but the council offices :rolleyes: – you can have em…
Fire station architecture at its best 😉
According to the local paper – the figures issued to the NSS people forgot a couple of thousand people and also excluded “Drogheda Co Meath” the bits of Drogheda just over the border into Co Meath such as the huge Grange Rath Estate which has about 500 houses! Which meant that Drogheda had a few hundred more (Dubs no doubt – myself included) than Dundalk 🙂
Ah Goodies – Third Level College, New Fire Station, Co Co Headquarters, Upgraded Shopping Street, Bypass that will be untolled – I could go on… True were getting a new Pool but only because the roof fell in on the other one.
And we’re finally getting decent shopping centres at the end of the year 😀
@Graham Hickey wrote:
Its fantastic today then that the largest town in the country has such a befitting station – contrasting markedly with Drogheda’s situation.
Pedant’s corner returns – Drogheda is bigger than Dundalk (by population) Dundalk just happens to get the goodies more (something to do with the government TD’s being located there?!?!)
