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Brushed steel and birch trees strikes again,… and again and again and again……. keep it for eastwall business park, please. Perhaps some warmth and texture, why does everything have to be so bloody contempary, cold and clinical.
Points taken. I probably didn’t word it very well though. I wasn’t suggesting an actual templebar, rather a redevelopment and enhancing of the existing laneways and roads, maybe undertaken in a similar fashion to the redevelopment of templebar by a consortium of architects, with a view to creating a fairly balnced urban area, albeit probably needing to be bolstered by some larger stores. Throw in a playground and park at ground level to. Maybe i should have used Wallaces millenium bridge to jervis luas stop as an example.
Anyway, anything other than a retail therapy clinic dropped from the sky.Spot on Tighin, we can do without the beige plastic. What in Gods name is wrong with creating an urban area with proper streets and lanes, there’s a network of laneways that could be redeveloped, increase the heights and densities, something on a par with templebar could be created between moore street and O’Connel street, minus all the tourist traps and cultural pretensions. There’s a lovely cafe/bakery opened on moore street, bake all their own bread in the back, cafe de paris, not much to speak about it’s interior but it’s a good place. I’d sooner this than the UK high street invasion topped with a sky park.
@onq wrote:
Its not the easiest site, ……..canopies á la Carrickmines Apartments.
ONQ.
and it’s shiny.
The central building demands symmetry in front of it, anything else is just sloppy ignorant uninformed design. I’m sure a case could be made for a storey or 2 extra on some L shaped buildings to the front in order to create a coherent design.
Horrendous. Would it not be logical to put 2 taller blocks flanking the square, creating a… square. Is this random placement of buildings a current trend? Looking at plans of redevelopment of mountjoy and mater appear very similar, wonky angles all over the place, no attempt at a logical streetscape. liebskind street.
Love it myself, the evergreen oaks are beautiful, bit of a pity just bland ol decidous trees planted in the revamp, love the feel of this square, the crushed gravel, the old brick walls, a rare mediteranean feel in Dublin.
The plan in the irish times would give the impression the pedestrian route is through the entrance of the carlton.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0327/1224267172959.html
is this the same plan? Doesn’t seem to be any of the street in the original, just a covered arcade running back to Moore st with glass canopy over half of moore st, although image doesn’t appear in link. It’s rather depressing to think what could become of the area, like it or loathe it, moore st has developed organically and i love this street, probably one of the most interesting in Dublin, i’d love to see the streets behind redeveloped into a high density residential area, a warren of small independent shops and restaurants like you’d find off las ramblas or tokyo backstreets. But no, the british high street’s gonna punch it’s way through to the ilac mall dressed in chrome, glass, aluminium and every sterile contemporary accessary going.@Quillber wrote:
don’t go puttin’ ideas in their head :rolleyes:
And the liffey cable car could run like a bicycle chain between the smithfield and point depot ferris wheels.
approach road bit like the sex scene in the naked gun, trains into tunnels and all that. Went through it today, certainly something new for ireland anyway.
More like Coventry city centre meets portlaoise! if they can only think in shopping centre terms i think i’d prefer see some inoffensive pastiche please.
Noticed this morning traffic coming south off the bridge is creating havoc for traffic coming from city along quays who have to squirm through misery hill to get south.
@Frank Taylor wrote:
It’s a direct journey…
pearse street, macken st, bridge, guild st, seville place, portland row, ncr, dorset street, drumcondra.The traffic lights are going to need some serious updating at the five lamps, tried this route today, there was light traffic and it still took forever. It struck me on the way how pointless it all seemed unless you put in a 70s style punchthrough going north from the bridge, it almost seems like it was the plan!
souless characterless glass alluminium chrome birch lavender highstreet brandnames elevators walkways cobblelock paving plastic signs ventilation shafts contempary catalogue street furniture clipped topiary metal pots and a wet yourself tower element…..christ, STW snowglobe valhalla.
@rob mc wrote:
Doesn’t look ten stories to me!
Probably because we’re so used to 10 storey pencil thin “tower elements”. It’s a very bulky building making it look shorter but it’s very visible on the skyline
