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The most ludicrous thing was when they were going to pedestrianise Grafton street initially, retaillers said the would suffer!
Grafton Street now home to some of the highest Zone A rents on the planet
I think a Architectural pub crawl of Dublin – something akin to the Literary and 1916 walking tours would be a great runner. Myself and a friend tried something like this on the long weekend visiting bars and discussing the architecture and the development stories between the East link bridge and Heuston Station – it was a smashing day out.
So long as the people involved aren’t going to demolish Lissadell – whats wrong with people using the building for what it was intended for – a house. The last thing this country needs is another sterile dead museum
I don’t think it was the yuppie who took the thing public – Joe Duffy has never been a great support of that cause.
sw101 I wouldn’t exactly call Clarion Quay a council estate give the fact its 80% private and 20% social housing!!!
Agree with you notjim on the “I pay therefore I am” thing – but there are people in the Social element who couldn’t care less about their private neighbours (there are also private neighbours who couldn’t care about their private neighbours) it just takes abit of balance on both sides – ideally.
There is a suitable park just behind the Custom House Square complex, with slides swings etc – people complain that there is no facilities for the kids, there is but again its back to the “its not on my doorstep – therefore it doesn’t exist mentality”. Walk people walk.
Its not just in Dublin you know
Taken From MediaGuardian.co.uk diary:
Cow kidnap case solved
The Associated Newspapers cow (which one?) has returned safely to the fold. Mootro, a former star of charitable public art event the international cow parade, went missing from her concrete plinth outside the Edinburgh Fringe Festival box office on the Royal Mile last weekend, and was last spotted being carried down Leith Walk in the wee small hours. Happily, following an appeal in free newspaper Metro, she was found at a special needs school, where it appeared she had been tossed over the wall by her abductors, slightly damaged but otherwise fine. The promised reward of £250 will go to the school. A heart-warming end to the tale.Originally posted by d_d_dallas
Well at leasy Gehry isn’t letting the U2 debacle stop him from fiding other commissions (from skyscrapers.com:***News: Brighton set for Gehry towers
Read this weeks “Nooks and Corners” (Architecture Column) in Private Eye magazine for a review of this building – from the sounds of it is truely awful and the CGI does it no favours. My favorite quote from it “The landmark element proposed is a wobbly 38-storey tower which promises to loom over the surrounding three- or four-storey stuccoed terraces like a Terry Gilliam monster in a Monty Python cartoon”.
I was down there last week and (i think it was them) the couple that were pictured with the article were screaming up from the plaza area outside the Excise bar up to their kids who were on the seventh floot of the buildings – and my god could you hear them.
Social inclusion works both ways you know – the “prick” who pays €1500 a month is entitled to a quiet life as well, no good being PC and feeling sorry for “the opressed masses” TM.
There isn’t any copper-face-jack’s type place down the campshire for people to get shitfaced and kick the crap out of a fiberglass cow though either. I think the cows were herded down there for their own safety.
I dont think the people who did the damage were critics – I couldn’t see Brian Sewell kicking the shite out of a fiberglass cow.
What ever happened to the good old Anglo-Irish like Lord Ardilaun and Lord Iveagh who gave Iveagh House and St Annes to the State – and didn’t sell them to the highest bidder! (With O’Leary in the grave no doubt).
I don’t believe the state should purchase Lissadell – all the articles about will-they won’t they is just fuelling a lobby for the state to purchase it for a inflated price (which is exactly the same as what happened with Farmleigh – original price €19m – sold to the state for €30m).
If the present owners have any regard for their heritage they will hand the property to the state free-gratis. The state could even let them remain there as life tenents on a peppercorn rent – as long as the state inheritates it upon their death, the upkeep could be looked after by the state.
Don’t give in to blackmail.
From the Sunday Tribune:
DDDA still hasn’t found what it’s looking for
SHANE COLEMAN
The Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) has taken the unusual step of hiring consultants to undertake a “due diligence validation exercise” on each of the 500 entries for the architectural competition to design a 60-metre landmark tower on the Liffey, which will include an exclusive recording studio for rock band U2. Competitors – which are understood to include some of the top names in world architecture – were asked to submit the entry form in a separate envelope from their designs to ensure the judging panel were unaware of the architect behind the designs they were assessing.
Now the DDDA has brought in Pricewaterhouse consultants to double-check the designs submitted correspond to the separate competition entry form. This is despite the fact that the regulations stated that the DDDA, on opening each submission, would place a number on each of the enclosed documents and the same number in the envelope containing the offi- cial competition entry form.
Despite rumours in the architecture world that there was a mix-up and the authority was unaware of the identity of certain designs – including the design chosen as the winner – a spokesman for the DDDA said he “categorically denied” this was the case. “The authority has not misplaced any application forms. This is simply an exercise designed to ensure that everything is correct. It is not unusu- al. The DDDA has never had a response of this level before. It’s a huge exercise,” the spokesman said.
He rejected the suggestion that it would have been more efficient and logical for the DDDA to simply contact the top 10 designs to confirm their identity. Emphasising the impotance of the competition, the spokesman said that the process of verification was almost complete but said a winner had not yet been selected.
It isn’t just bad management, the unions are an awful bolshie lot, they want pay rises for absolutely everything and if you try to update the working practices to make sense they go on strike!!
This is due to the fact there is no leadership in this country whatsoever everything is done for short term gain. Why the hell do we need consultants hired again and again to tell us the same common sense things ad infinitum when we have office blocks of civil servants telling us the same thing.
Bertie Ahearn never made a decision in his life, he probably needs a committee report to tell him what socks to wear!! Mr Bloody consensus. All this faffing about is why things are never ever ever built correctly, on time and within budget.
For example – can anyone make sense of the fact that the Harcourt street/St Stephens green section of the luas is not being built on a 24/7 basis to get the thing out the way. Its not a residential area is it? So why not….
The problem is that people (a) aren’t supplied properly by public transport – this is a combination of bad government, bolshie trade unions and even worse management and (b) are too selfish and lazy in this country to try to use public transport where possible. And am I the only one that gets angry hearing that “Irish Times Motors” ad on the radio with that whinging cow “Oh I hate public transport…” shoot the selfish little bitch I say
