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Sorry to spoil the fun, but this is a big load of nonsense. The OPW say the PVC windows in Leinster House are temporary, and there to protect the wooden windows behind which will be re-revealed in all their splendour once the work is completed.
“Did you really think we’d put PVC into Leinster House,” the OPW official asked aghast.
“Er, yes, I wouldn’t put anything past you.”Click.
BrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrI believe the story is that the architectural light at the top was tried out last week and found not to be up to scratch. Dublin city council engineers weren’t happy with it. So, more tweaking. Some dark bands, in particular, have to be removed.
The light half way up, an intermediate light, is for aviation purposes. This needs to be tilted up so that the majority of the light points to the sky.
It’s going to be 10-12 weeks before the work around the base is finished, and the permanent granite platform set into place. There’s no urgency from a city council point of view to launch it, so it seems to me like we’re looking at a July/August timetable for an official opening. The plastic should come off the base a lot sooner, though.
Think of all the hospitals they could have built with that money what’s been wasted on that spike. What’s it all for anyway? What’s the point of it? They should have rebuilt Nelson’s Pillar and put the Blessed Virgin on top. I’m going to get onto that Liveline programme immediately to give out about this.
Signed,
Outraged Mother of Nine
You know what’ll happen next? We’ll have smelly eco warriors up the trees. And they’ll all be from Manchester and London.
London eco-warriors in the London planes
I’m with Paul – if the O’Connell Street redevelopment gets held up by the muesli eaters I’ll take a hacksaw down there myself
I was at the opening night of The Helix last night. What a superb facility – architecturally innovative, acoustically accurate and with less of the cultural snobbery that surrounds the NCH. I agree it could be a white elephant in waiting – but not if people clamber aboard the 19a and support it. (I think DCU will use it as an exam hall etc. in the summer anyway.) They have an interesting broad-ranged programme lined up for the coming months… Whatever about southsiders going to Glasnevin, northsiders should certainly get out and support the best thing that has happened on their side of the city since, well, Smithfield? Fair play to DCU – they’re already contributing more to the cultural life of the city than UCD ever did.
I’m really getting fed up of people slagging Bertie’s stammer. A real case of playing the man and not the ball. And is there no way to change the subject title of this thread, Paul? I don’t think it does this excellent site any favours to be mocking the taoiseach’s speech.
What’s all this I hear about the Luas bridge in Dundrum being too low, or one of the slip roads being 10 inches too high. Can they really have made such a basic error? Ireland on Sunday said the whole thing will be delayed until Christmas as a result. Such a shame for what appeared to be a marvel of modern engineering
Remember the Elbow Inn up around Mary Street? That was even smaller. I guess it’s just uneconomic to run these tiny places
Very thought provoking, Paul. If Liverpool can build it so cheaply, why can’t we?
I bet that’s the solution Bertie and the PDs hammer out when they hop back into bed together. A 55,000 seater stadium, costing no more than 250,000 euro. No tennis courts, no golf academy, no centres of sporting excellence. Just a stadium. What a shame they knobbled the FAI’s Eircom Park – it would have been nearly built by now.Let’s get out and vote for Bertie? Pul-lease. Just because he has this grandiose idea of building a monument to himself in Abbotstown. It’s this kind of woolly thinking that has this country sleepwalking into a Fianna Fail overall majority. And we all know what happened the last time – with rezoning good-oh as Ray Burke and the boys helped themselves.
Come clean GregF. You sound like a dyed-in-the-wool Fianna Failer rather than someone who really thinks Bertie is good for architecture…Paul, is there any chance of chancing the title of this topic? I really think it’s unfair to insult someone about a stammer.
What exactly was the problem with Frank’s book? Didn’t it have to be withdrawn because of a libel? A second hand bookseller sold me a copy a few years ago but insisted that I put it in a bag before I left the shop because “I’m not supposed to be selling you this”. It felt like Eastern Europe in the 1970s!
Any more details? Who is planning to build it, Dublin city council? And is it at the planning application stage?
It might be a good idea if it sucked some of the traffic off the streets around Terenure, but obviously a thorough EIS will be neededNo way. Why should we support the retention of two tumbledown old sheds? This is an architectural website, not a U2 fans forum.
