tommyt
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Regardless of the aesthetic/philosphical debate around the work of Le Corbu is it not universally acknowledged he was an insufferable tosser?- similar to a lot of 20th century icons- they’re the lines I read between anyway from watching the programme.
Had a brief chat with the proprietot of the internet cafe that was there before it started to redevelop. He said it was structurally unsound but the council wouldn’t let the owners knock it. From viewing the inside of the building from the top deck of the bus I think this is the case. There are a lot of RSJ’s and other supporting beams up inside the shell at present. The internet cafe guy was hoping to relet the premises when finished
I was Bit confused by the wording of the tender I saw in the Times the other day. Are they looking to hold a starchitects beauty contest or do a masterplan like an LAP or Framework Plan? Isn’t it all supposed to be built by 2010 as well!
This probably sounds preposterous but I have noticed posters mentioning that this white granite is permeable. Would anyone think it possible to artificiallypatinate/colour this stone in some sort of a bath of humic/tannic acid?. Could we leave batches of this awfully bland stone in monstrous vats of stewed tea!
This granite also seems very liable to chipping. A good place to observe this is the section of Talbot st. from Marlbourough place to the junction at nth Earl St. One side of the street is old stone, still in great nick, whilst the West side of the street is the new stuff that is already in rag order, chipped and stained beyond redemption by the looks of it.Not all of the above picture are new streets. One is the fantastically monikered Misery Hill! pertaining to its past as a waystation for lepers entering/exiting the city. Hope it is retained as it is the street’s rightful title.
Hope STW are sent back to the drawing board. Although on further thought the fact that the site cost 41M could indicate a tight budget for any practice working on a proposed development.
Was up that way last Friday night. The steeple looks magnificent, hope someone on here with a digi camera will be up that way soon to take a few pictures. The Mater’s repointing of a few townhouses on Eccles St. and their two infill builings (pretty decent) on Nelson St. bring the whole neighbourhood up a notch or two, slightly cleansing their dirty bib over the mater private/Leopold Bloom’s gaff travesty..
@hutton wrote:
Ooooh look at that…DCC’s lists as 7648 on the Record of Protected Structures –
“62 Sean MacDermott St Dublin 1. Corn mill building, former Presbyterian church (facade only)”
Clearly the facade is protected, judging its current state:(
Peculiarly above this listing at 7646, is listed “Sean Mac Dermott St Lower – Facade of former Presbyterian church”
Obviously there cant be 2, so this must be a double entry…
Hmm ..Twice the effort in listing, and half the effort of enforcement. Wonderful :rolleyes:
Remarkable to think D1 could in days gone by support two Presbyterian congregations (t’other being the gothic revival on Parnell Sq.). If this facade had have been anywhere else but S McD street there would have been an awful stink kicked up. One can only hope it is due/proposed to be removed to another location.
EFT is also home to the fascinating pathology museum, containg specimens of diseased human organs, body parts and even complete foetus’s in formaldehyde!. A fascinating place, worked on the CCTV in there once and had the privilege to mosey around it
That’s bad news. Will be entering the workforce myself shortly. Would appreciate any anecdotal opinions on the current jobscene immensly….
It seems to me a repackaging of already announced stuff ala Transport 21. Only in the loosest possible geographical terms is this area “south of Heuston” obviously not a lot of proper work to be done for that area planning/development comm.-it-teee . Tis indeed a naff rebranding exercise along the lines of the “Village Quarter” concept. Having said all that I hope some good comes of it…
@Paul Clerkin wrote:
ctesiphon there was a pissoir on the northern quays somewhere as I remember reading about somebody buying the scrap when it was been removed…. just came back to me
It was on upr Ormond Quay. There is a moody Samuel Beckett photo where it features s in the background, covered in various fliers/posters but I haven’t seen the photo in years
@marty_mc wrote:
hi folks
im doing my dissertation on the regeneration of the Gorbals in Glasgow and Ballymun, and would like your views on whether urban regeneration is achieving its objectives in terms of creating sociably stable comunities. have the people of ballymun a better quality of life now, almost 10 years since the redevelopment process started?Hi Marty,
I don’t mean to rain on your parade but you have opened a real can of worms there. I was gonna do something Ballymun related for my dissertation but was turned down coz A, the regeneration is not finished yet and B, I have it on good authority that the local community are well and truly fed up with student research and the goldfish bowl social science approach leading to constant interogation re; their living conditions.
Having said that, best of luck but if you have a chance to change topic at this stage I would seriously consider it(If I had 485k I’d buy one tmrrw just to keep you undergrad dribblers orf my property!. Seriously if there is any redevelopment of the corpo gaffs the residents deserve to be lavishly recompensed. They were the only pple who wanted to live there in the 80’s and were lucky not to have their gaffs demolished during the Inner Tangent Relief Road debacle. Smithfield is a real microcosm of the last 40 years of development in the city. It’s a real living, breathing neighbourhood, not some wet dream plaything.
Sounds to me that your first port of call should be a planing consultant to ascertain if you are exactly correct in stating that there application should not have been validated.
if this is the case and the development got PP and you have not submitted an objection your next port of call is seeking a judicial review of the whole application.
The Irish Times law report dealing with this matter was in the paper a couple of weeks ago and related to the fact that the planning application was incorrectly filed on the council database by the wrong year and so did not allow reasonable notice for the public to record their objections/observations. Think the judge through the whole application out. T
Bus Arse is an incredibly sick building that needs major work to bring its heating and ventilation up to any kind of acceptable standard. I have worked there on occasion and the Dept.SW employees absolutely hate it from a functional point of view. Thought it was interesting what his kids said about their own gaff being freezing cold. Something tells me Scott was a man not too bothered by letting practicalities get in the way of the grand vision. Having said that it should be lavished with a complete overhaul. I particularly like the blank gable facing the Custom House by the Dublin Bus stop and the use of the red Roman bricks (is that the right term for bricks of those proportions?) on Store st., I’ve never seen them used anywhere else in Dublin
