Rory W
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UCD in terms of the Arts block/Admin building is functual enough, Its the interior decor that is the problem – bloody brown tiles and poor lighting make the place look dark but hey it was the 70s, and it hides the dirt, still the place does the job. Like any building of its size it makes perfect sense to someone who is in there daily but when people come across from other faculties (or outside of the college) they don’t know there way around.
Its a valid point about the neglect of buildings in this country – I was taking a walk around Christ Church yesterday an the Civic offices phase one facades are absolutely manky – made the building look worse than it already is. We have a serious problem with keeping things clean in this country – once something is built it’s left to rot – what’s the problem with cleaning every so often?
sw101 – they should just give it to gehry
Any particular reason? Have you seen something the rest of us haven’t? Or is this just a blind piece of Gehry worship?
Why the hell would they need a park on this prime bit of quayside – they are already going to build a linear park alongside the royal canal so why have a big park tacked on to the side of it. It’s quite windswept already in this area we need buildings not parks – to build a park would be an awful waste
J. Seerski, perfect suggestions however may I add metro station to the wish list and some additional draws to the Parnell Square area please
Marriott group eyes Docklands site
Irish Independent, 26 February 2003“Top US hotel group Marriott is in negotiations with the Spencer Dock Development Company that could lead to the construction of a five star, 300-bed hotel, in Dublin’s dockside. The deal would be pending government approval of a National Conference Centre at the site.Property sources told the Irish Independent that while negotiations involved a number of top hotel groups, the Marriott is the one expected to go ahead at the development if the Government gives the conference centre the green light.”
if the Government gives the conference centre the green light??? I thought the conference centre was the only part of Spencer dock that did get the go ahead – or are we on the consultancy merry-go-round again?
Bollocks – I love those lamps, very cool and very much of their time and not faux-anything. Definitely the best lamps in town, can’t stand those olde-worlde replacements – they don’t add anything new for me. By all means replace those bloody awful 70’s crap, esp low-pressure sodium (orange) lights but can we do something of our time and not faux anything?
Graham – I remember going to an antique shop on Francis street during the 80s and the entire back yard was full of green painted lampstands that my father said were originally gas lamps that had been changed over to electric – but there were definitely 000’s of them there. So I assume the CC sold them
What O’Connell Street needs is some positive pulls on the street so the thing doesn’t die after 6pm in the evening, cafes, restaurants, decent bars, places where people can feel safe. I saw an article on Brendan Grace in the Sunday Times decrying the fact that the money was spent on the Spire, he said it should have been spent on 6 squad cars to patrol the street – pleb that he is, we cant live in fear of our lives for visiting the Savoy. Best of luck to the City Council, get out McDonalds etc.
Agree with the rebuilding on same site context – just an interesting thought though, if the government wants developers to set 20% of a development aside for social housing, should the city council set aside 20% of its developments for private housing, which could be sold at a profit? After all the whole idea is to promote a social mix
Best looking Corpo scheme was Mercer House on Cuffe Street behind the Ardilaun centre, looks like some of the better designed ones in London and the Mansard Roof is superb could do with being another 2-3 storeys high though and enclose the rear courtyards
rperse – the developers around this town are very limited in terms of design and the City Council are the ones who do innovate (social) housing.
You can’t keep chucking people out of areas so that they can be redeveloped and sold to investors to fill with a transient community. What this town needs is sustainable development with a healthy social mix (and the abilty to chuck problem tenents out quickly) rather than ghettoising a whole social class.
I lived in some of the “great redevelopment” apartments around town (IFSC, Wintergarden, etc) and there is fuck all of a community there because of the lack of people who want to live their lives in an overprice shoebox (which is what you get from these schemes). Purely there for rental purposes which is unsustainable.
I’d love to live in the middle of the city, but in somewhere of a decent size, 3 bedrooms a separate kitchen and a dining room or god forbid dual aspect but unless I become a lotto millionaire I have no chance of affording this.
Get real! Developments in Dublin are there to maximise the profit of the developer at the expense of the “community” who move in there.
There’s too much of the I pay my (one of the lowest rates in europe) taxes and reserve the right to park/drive/runover people where ever I choose in this country. No such thing as civic mindedness…
CIE is destroyed by a combination of bad management, selfish, intransigent and lazy unions and political interference as well as the fact that joined-up-thinking has never struck this important company. Leadership is badly needed in this area
The Emmett Statue is across the road from his birthplace which stood where 124 St Stephen’s green is about to be built.
PS it looks like Cramptons are on site here now and the gaping hole in the West side of the green is finally going to be filled after being empty for approx 30 years
Speaking of plans – did anyone see the Abercrombie feature in Ireland on Sunday? Not bad at all. Compared the height graphically of the proposed St Patrick’s tower (500 ft and fairly bulky) as part of the new Pro-Cathederal with the Spire (300 ft & slender). Interesting
No Ciaran O – I wouldn’t prefer to have Nelson there in particular – I wiould have liked him to have been replaced in a civilised manner with something more suitable. Demolishing the whole thing was a loss to Dublin. We rightly condemn the Taliban for destroying statues, why shouldn’t we condemn republicans?
The Spire of Dublin will do me just fine too. Sinn Fein shouldn’t get a look in on the naming process since (a) they were opposed to it in the first instance being from “the Hospital beds and VD clinics” brigade and (b) they (or their buddies) are the philistines who blew up the pillar in the first place!
Here’s a bland nomination of my own – The Robert Emmet Tower – it’s his bicentenial this year you know!!!
PS that’s a joke – please stick with the Spire of Dublin
Dellyberg properties (i.e. O’Callaghan Group) have applied to remove the circular column from the forecort area of (as described in the application – “the corner of Sandwith Street and Fenian Street”) i.e. Archer’s Garage and add door/glazing to the forecourt.
Now is this going to change the appearance of this building dramatically or what – the central pillar is what makes Archer’s in my opinion, with it’s almost cog like expression. Anyone who cares to object to this should contact Dublin City Council.
By replacing it with a ghastly 00’s update?
Mind you the fact that Roches pulled down Frascati House shows they don’t give a toss about architecture. I suppose they dont want to fade their tatty clothes with views of the southside. Even Schuh on O’Connell Street looks better with it’s high level display windows rather than bald facade.
On a luck note the original plan for the bhs/penny’s building on O’Connell Street had no windows either
I assume “noise” although he could be talking about the stench of piss that accompanies most of TB these days.
I think the whole Temple Bar area seems to start petering out from Fitzsimon’s Bar Westward and Parliament street draws a halt to the whole thing in the mental map for many people’s. A couple of good restaurants could help the old city end to be honest.
