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As pointed out ,the repro facades on Parnell Sq opposite the Rotunda main entrance have been completed to a very high standard and cannot be faulted by any reasonable judgement.
There is significant scope for a contemporary block of a substantial size including a decent basement to enliven James St. East with the right roof treatment. We don’t really ‘do’ decent roofs in Irish archticetural practice though imo.
Bare pole matching this description at the five lamps at the minute. That ped island could do with a lot of TLC commensurate with its landmark significance.
@gunter wrote:
Apparently there’s new Dublin City Council signage going up around the city, just heard a planner [Mary Conway] on the radio. The signage is ”really well designed”, should be interesting.
The first one is up today on ”Bernardo Square”
Bernardo Square??
Bernardo O’Higgins? . . . the father of the Chillian fishing fleet . . . why weren’t we told about this?
Lets hope the second sign up tells us where Bernardo Square is :rolleyes:
Maybe down by the lonely looking statue of Admiral Brown off Jon Rog Quay, plonked full square on the pavement like Joyce on Nth Earl street.
Is there a Dublin pan-andean quarter coming together unbeknownst to Archiseekers??
We could rename a certain HQ building down there Mengele House, if it’s a ‘noteworthy Europeans in the new world’ angle being pursued:confused:
@PVC King wrote:
The nub of this is that if Tesco go to Carrickmines and Dunnes have Cornelscourt then who will anchor Cherrywood? There are only two major supermarkets in Ireland given that M & S don’t do full format and Superquinn have gone down the Waitrose route of 10,000 – 15,000 sq foot stores. Aldi or another discounter for Cherrywood clearly doesn’t add up. Clearly those supporting Cherrywood need to outline what their timetable to building a scheme is as it appears there is a clear need for supermarket space. You have got to admire Cotter’s deal making skills to get a viable retail scheme to this stage albeit that it may fall victim to that tiger era risk called planning risk.
Bang on the money. The obvious compromise is a German discounter with an M&S simply food or small format Superquinn/Fresh/Mortons/Nolans for Carrickmines which would be a souped up neighbourhood centre justifiable for the catchment and demographic.
Especially if ASDA /Walmart enter the Irish market it would in all likelihood be a buyout of the larger Dunnes outlets in the RoI, thereby leaving Tesco with a free run at Cherywood.
http://www.pleanala.ie/casenum/232347.htm
granted PP yesterday. Hopefuly get time to read the conditions later.
@Tuborg wrote:
Of course it’s all irrelevant now. But it dosen’t change the fact that we have had to settle for a stadium with a totally inadequate capacity, which is quite annoying!
I personally don’t buy this argument. A fair and proper Ticket allocation system (yeah I know, I know..) you would hope would insure a partisan, passionate and vocal home support in a relatively intimate stadium built for competitive international field sports.
The GAA can have their bumper crowds of amiable day trippers- occasionally vocally engaging with a game in an enoromode rarely filled more than four times a year that appears to have a pretty non descript atmosphere to this outsider…
The stadium is more than fit for purpose in one of the finest locations any stadium in Europe occupies (e.g. Wembley and the Camp Nou are in anonymous uburbs, Old Trafford is in an industrial estate for all intents and purposes).
Either way I’ll be watching on the telly so I won’t be getting too worked up whether the ground can cater for presumed demand.
@Paul Clerkin wrote:
I like the look of it externally – but for me, the primary purpose of a stadium is to allow people to watch the game – if there is obstructed view, then it is a fail by the designers. That’s black and white for me, if when it opens, this is proven, then the development team fubared the project.
I wonder where the seats reserved for the yokels as part of the planning gain will be allocated 😉
Would be interesting to see what’s in their franchise agreements with operators alright. They probably have a ‘signup now- get a shedload of extra signage free’ deal on the go.
@Bago wrote:
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.
:)Very explicit. Have you seen the ad elswhere looking for a new Architecture critic for the Sunday Times:p
@alonso wrote:
Pity the Brazil game isn’t there. I reckon the midfield partnership of Kaka and Dudu would really suit the new place
(sorry folks but that’s the winner 😉 )
I’d say you were a bit flushed after squeezing out that nugget:o
@rumpelstiltskin wrote:
Architecture is primarily about aesthetics. If you have the greatest acoustics in the world and a stunningly ugly building, the scheme has failed from an architectural perspective. And that’s why I think the Point is an abject failure.
er, Form follows function:confused::confused: (cliché fans)
@Paul Clerkin wrote:
In 1846, Dundalk was granted by Royal Charter the right to maintain a town primate. The primate was brought to town borough meetings where it was chained to the alderman’s chairs. Under the charter, male primates were called Albert, while females were called Victoria. This practice survived the foundation of the Irish state and was continued until 1962, when it was discontinued after complaints from the ISPCA.
It would seem that this photo dates from the later years of the practice when it was under fire from animal lovers.
Could possibly date from the local Pioneers protest against the ill conceived local bye-law, (as voted for by the UDC in 1944) that the sitting simian shall receive a ration of 40 Major and a quart of McArdles on a daily basis, unfortunately I can’t make out the communiqué on the sandwich board under the banner which would no doubt contribute further information.
@Michae1 wrote:
In immediate proximity of Smithfield is the Bolton Street area which also suffers from dereliction. The students of third year in Bolton Street spent the year addressing the problem by shifting the proposed site for DIT Grangegorman towards the city to create an urban campus serving the student population and the community.
They have a book launch and exhibition at the end of October but you can see some of the work online.To be honest I wasn’t too enamoured with this. The forensic level of analysis is welcome but I find calling a decent, functional urban neighbourhood with organically diversifying uses a ‘wasteland’ to be irritatingly bourgeois.
On one level there is talk of Kreuzberg and its invigorating squatter counterculture then we get a fairly typical city ‘fix’ based on dated ideas of urban renewal.
Don’t mean to piss on anyone’s chips and I appreciate the huge amount of work a student has to put into such a project but it’s analysing urban renewal from a very narrow prism, yet demonstrating an overreach regarding what architecture can deliver for real communities.@gunter wrote:
Not for the faint hearted is the Cumberland Street Market.
a good set of sharp elbows and an eye for a diamond in the rough is eesential for any flea marketeering. It’s a real pity this hasn’t taken off in Dublin on a bigger scale-either in a purpose built place or on the streets.
@Smithfield Resi wrote:
The animal welfare issues can be dealt with by adequate supervision of the fair. Isn’t it better to have a central location to do this and check on the welfare of the animals in the process rather than scouting the country to find abuses?
I personally feel the vast majority of people attending the fair have no business owning a horse. If it was motor vehicles people were trading in a similar manner or condition the whole thing would have been closed down years ago.
I see your point about controlling the process but I think it’s a ‘tradition’ worth letting go of. It’s a pitiful sight not worthy of any touristy dressing up. That’s my urban, wooly liberal take on it.Back on topic though- the city is lacking a decent equestrian themed piece of public art and Smithfield is the ideal spot for such a potentially gargantuanly scaled folly. let’s keep the real ponies where they can be properly cared for by capable owners.
@Smithfield Resi wrote:
Just a further thought about the Horse Fair, if they have to move it – why not to the Liberties? – Newmarket would be appropriate I would think…and give Bord Failté a call…
The horse market is an extremely depressing, cruel affair not suited to any central Dubln location and should be closed down on animal welfare groounds alone.
I can see a future ‘Viz Top Tip’ emerging from this redesign:
Can’t get tickets for Ireland’s 2014 World Cup qualifiers ? Stick your telly in the greenhouse or a bus shelter for that authentic Landsdowne Road vibe.
@thebig C wrote:
Quel surprize. I generally hate developers and their ilk. But, this could have been a real attraction for Dublin. Of course arguements like that are wasted on the closed minds in ABP.
C
a north facing greenhouse with a harry Ramsdens and a few yukkas in pots on the 13th floor of a mall:rolleyes: they’d be flocking in from all corners of the globe to see that one, sure feck the Development Plan and all that statutory ‘document of the people’ shite as well.
Lumley’s right- enough people on here know there is a poisonous cabal of pseuds and spoofers trading as our neo-urbanist betters &overlords in Wood Quay (with some honourable exceptions I know) .
@lostexpectation wrote:
from the air thanks to via @robinb and the irish coast guard
http://www.flickr.com/photos/r1g2b3/3751945332/in/set-72157621679888789/
Have to say I am really warming to this bridge, dunno if the function will dim my fondness for the form but it is the best ‘intervention’ in my mental map of Dublin in my lifetime. I had visitors from the basque country last week and was proud to point out something that looks like it will work in rebranding (awful term I know, please frogive me) the east of the city centre. How deeply unimpressed they were (and how deeply indigant was meself) about the pig’s mickey that’s been made of reinventing the docks.
