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do an “arch-search” for a list fo the practises.
smithfield is on my way home, i’ll grab a few photos of the nearly completed eastern consturction block if anyone’s interested.
for the sake of the right-click challenged.
that image is http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~tbp/Pictures/2003/Lego/Pictures/ERB.jpg
from this site… http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~tbp/Pictures/2003/Lego/Lego.htm
@lexington wrote:
international noodle-house Wagamama
can i just say…YESS!!!!
been to the dublin and sydney ones, and now cork!! excellent.
update: i’ve learned it’s to be erected in fitzgeralds park instead. only information so far is that it will be up “spring to autumn”, i’ll post any more news as i get it.
the an post sorting office just off the main road near little island is a fantastic building at night. not sure who the architect was but the engineers at horgan lynch did a great job in sorting hte roof services. it looks like a funnelled ship lit up from below.
@Diaspora wrote:
That is ridiculous and if I wasn’t bound by confidentiality I could tell a few similar timing related stories as well
i’m sure everybody has a couple. it’s a point of beuracracy for whoever is responsible for the return, but it can (and has) resulted in a loss of work for an architect, a loss of a job or status for an employee, and a general negative feeling is promoted towards planning offices. which is a shame.
i assume all is fine and dandy with the stairs in question until some old bat breaks a hip on the way to the bottom, at speed.
a large stairwell like that need not be rendered hideous by landings and rails. that’s your job burge. stop trying to dodge the issue. i don’t envy you the task though.
is their an alternative means to getting up to that level? as in another stairwell. i always thought the regs were designed to accomodate disabled persons, even if they have to use a secondary route (even thought it’s not ideal), rather than apply the regs to limit fully ambulant persons.
do you have a photo/sketch/dwg to illustrate where they went wrong? i was in there when it reopened but can’t recall the one you mention.
in my experience it’s not money that affects the quality of public space finishes, rather it’s sense. my home town is a prime example of what not to do. the cabling for christmas decorations is left up all year, the power lines and telephone cabling is haphazard and unservices, frankly ugly.
my biggest gripe is with groundworks and service works. walking down oliver plunkett street last weekend i was mildly impressed by the decent stone finish that had been used at the pedestrian junctions. casting my mind forward six months i can see a team of esb/eircom/contractors ripping up the road to lay a watermain or cable, and replacing the brand new stone with uneven tarmac. drives me to drink.
