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@rumpelstiltskin wrote:

I know it’s only pavement, but in all honestly the members of Dublin City Council should be brutally tortured to death one by one. I call on all civic-minded psychopaths to start the ball rolling.

a public stoning perhaps:confused:

@SunnyDub wrote:

I prefer Macken Street bridge name…but then I’m a south-sider

As I’ve already stated ,you even number hogging steamers it’s gonna be the HAUGHEY FAMILY MEMORIAL PSEUDO HARP THOROUGHFARE TO GAELDOM. It will speed all bona fide childer of erin tothe heart of Hibernia, decreasing the time proper god- fearing dwellers of D3,5 and 13 have to spend in Babylonian D2 and 4. Hopefully our progeny won’t pick up that stoopid 46A drawl if they can be spirited out of the region in a more efficient manner to feis ceoil in Gorey and the like.
De bleedin’ Dubs will need one less slash stop as the coaches from Parnell Park make it to witness the hockeyin’ of Loch Garman in next year’s Leinster championship1st round. Wurth 80 mill of tax payers’ moolah any day.

Ahhhh me oul seogossiahs, the dear an’darlin’ chiseller wit his britches up in his oxters and the beeeeeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuuuuutifull whoite wash. Is it Church st. and general environs ?? the big gable end on the right makes me thinkof Bow st. for some reason. In any event is it a street that has seen signficant rearrangement in the early photograohic era?

@johnglas wrote:

It’s hard being churlish about this and at least the externals are preserved, but is its conversion to ‘offices’ – however skilfully done – does still seem a loss of a valuable ‘public’ space. I do remember once having heard the bells ring out over North Dublin, but I suppose the Northside’s loss is Dundrum’s gain. What a home for small-scale music performances this would have made; I think there was such a proposal once, but the main objection was that Southside nobs would not park their Volvos in such an area. (!)

When it was relaunched as the Temple Theatre about 8/9 years ago I was at the opening night and I didn’t think it worked as an entertainment venue at all. the basement was a really awkward space and felt extremely claustrophobic and the main space had awful acoustics for amplified music. It would be preferable to see a civic or public admin use for the building but I don’t know if it could take over (for example) the role the Hugh Lane currently provides for small scale musical performances. Compared to the Black Church it is difficult to recycle as a secular space and it’s as decent an effort as could have been expected. Fabulous exterior job done for sure.

ESB to announce design competition to replace HQ?

http://www.etenders.gov.ie/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=MAR116146

TITLE ATTRIBUTED TO THE CONTRACT BY THE CONTRACTING ENTITY: Design Contest
(Architectural).
ESB intends to publish an Design Contest (Architectural) notice in the
coming days relating to the development of a key site of approximately 1
hectare (2.5 acres) in the city centre of Dublin which is currently
occupied by the existing ESB Headquarters.
Interested parties should monitor the Official Journal of the European
Union ( see http://ted.europa.eu ) and Irish Government Public Sector
Procurement opportunities portal (http://www.etenders.gov.ie for this design
contest only), over the coming days to ensure that they do not miss this
opportunity.
CPV: 71000000.

@GregF wrote:

Can kinda blame the late Tony Gregory and Charlie Haughey (and the Gregory deal that was done) for the demolishment of these Georgian buildings and their replacement with the awful ‘suburban style’ social housing.
OK, folk in the inner city were living in squalor in these fine old but decrepit buildings (aka tenements) of yesteryear and they needed new homes, but architectural appreciation went out the window, as it would in the hands of the culturally ignorant idiots Fianna Fail and Tony Gregory.

Their track records on understanding the architectural fabric, old and new, of Dublin City was appalling!

Hence we have Sean McDermott Street and Gardiner Street looking as they do today!

(Imagine something like that happening in Europe? ..Na, and any damage that was done there can be credited to the Luftwaffe and the RAF etc…. )

There wasn’t much appreciation of decaying Georgian Dublin within the general body of the architecture profession neither from what I have heard. An old urban design lecturer I had reckoned his whole class in the 60s in UCD hated the monotony and twee uniformity of the georgian terrace as they saw it. The same guy lived in a damp basement on upr Mount st at the time and wanted the whole D2 georgian core pulled down on health and safety grounds alone:rolleyes: I appreciate that is a bit of a stretch of a generalisation but it makes sense when you think of the protests by student architects against the destruction of Dublin are associated with the 80s onwards.

to be fair devin there’s not a whole lot fundamentally wrong with that imo-nothing irreversible or irritatingly chain branding about it-if you saw it in Amsterdam or Copenhagen people on here would be romancing about how it added to the gritty urban patina of an ever transforming neighbourhood etc…
Johnny Eagle’s tattoo parlour was/has been up there like Custer’ s last stand on that block for decades and whatever lease or ownership he held there possibly kept that terrace from the bulldozers that obliterated that whole city block- I’d allocate honorary urban design tastelessnes squatter’s rights to the terrace on this one 😉

as a rookie driver I had a bit of a wobble and was genuinely distracted by the new one on Sean Moore Rd heading towards the East Link. Hopefully there’s enough shunts or close calls (where no one’s injured of course) that will get someone like the Insurance Federation of Ireland campaigning for their removal.

@ctesiphon wrote:

I looked at this a few weeks ago, and what struck me was the relatively low density of the overall development. Higher densities on smaller footprints – though not necessarily high rises! – would allow for more expansion in future, whereas the current parkland layout might prove difficult to densify down the line.

Don’t know if you’ve ever walked those grounds but there are stands and individual examples of spectacular yew trees that must be ancient and their preservation would be central to the design-haven’t had time to peruse the masterplans yet-just thought I would stick an initial oar in:)

@hutton wrote:

It looks great.

Such an improvement on the nasty cheapo 70s block that was there before.

Cool crisp and clean lines, with the tinted glass envelope alluding to the placidity of the canal in front, and welcoming open skies above.

“O unworn world enrapture me, encapture me in a web
Of fabulous grass and eternal voices by a beech,
Feed the gaping need of my senses, give me ad lib
To pray unselfconsciously with overflowing speech
For this soul needs to be honoured with a new dress woven
From green and blue things and arguments that cannot be proven.”

From Patrick Kavanaghs ‘Canal Bank Walk’

Anybody else see the One Warrington Place, just down the way – and again a vast improvement…

While the Celtic Tiger may not have delivered massive Gerkin-style icons, here as with the Harcourt Building, the city has benefited from some good quality decent commercial buildings 🙂

Nice quote work- Have you anything from ‘The Hard Life’ to eulogise the newbie on Warrington Place by any chance?