North Quays

Shane07 wrote: »

There will be one of the concrete towers left as there is preservation order on it from what I heard!

wellboytoo wrote: »

I've heard this story before its a protected structure, I've gone through the list on the council's site and it is not listed.
http://www.waterfordcity.ie/departments/planning/conservation.htm

R. and H. Hall Flour Mills, Dock Road, Waterford, County Waterford



Reg. No. 22900908
Date 1900 - 1910
Previous Name N/A
County County Waterford
Coordinates 260852, 112856
Categories of Special Interest ARCHITECTURAL TECHNICAL
Rating National
Original Use store/warehouse

Description
Attached ten-bay nine-storey reinforced-concrete flat-roofed warehouse, built 1905, originally detached. Now disused. Flat concrete roof behind cornice parapet with steel railings over. Unpainted roughcast walls over reinforced concrete construction with rendered dressings including three-storey piers to ground, first and second floor, two-storey piers to each two-storey section over on moulded stringcourses, horizontal bands to each floor, and moulded cornice to top floor. Square-headed window openings with no sills, and steel casement windows. Interior with reinforced concrete floors, and concrete beams on concrete piers having chamfered corners. Set back from line of road.

Appraisal
An imposing building of national importance forming the centrepiece of an industrial complex located on the north wharf in Waterford City. Designed by William Friel (n. d.) employing an innovative construction system developed by François Hennebique (1842 - 1921) in 1892, the warehouse was only the second such building erected in the island of Ireland (a contemporary building survives in Belfast). Advanced construction techniques are masked by rendered details, producing a strikingly Modern geometric design, a distinctive feature in the landscape. Originally standing alone on the riverside, much of the dramatic impact of the warehouse has been compromised by the systematic development of the adjacent sites throughout the twentieth century.

Cabaal wrote: »

Sometimes we have to be careful about what we call to be demolished,

Remember that in the 1960's many structures were knocked down in the belief that they looked like crap, were unsuitable and/or could not be modernised, today we see many of the structures that replaced them as eyesores that never should have been built.

We potentially risk the same happening again, I'm sure many people saw the old crane on the quays as an eyesore at one time but yet it adds character to the quays and I doubt many would want it knocked now.

Which looks better, the modern waterford station


or

The old station


Whilst the old mill buildings may not look great now, in the right surroundings and if cleaned up and in use they could look just fine.

Appraisal
An imposing building of national importance forming the centrepiece of an industrial complex located on the north wharf in Waterford City. Designed by William Friel (n. d.) employing an innovative construction system developed by François Hennebique (1842 - 1921) in 1892, the warehouse was only the second such building erected in the island of Ireland (a contemporary building survives in Belfast). Advanced construction techniques are masked by rendered details, producing a strikingly Modern geometric design, a distinctive feature in the landscape. Originally standing alone on the riverside, much of the dramatic impact of the warehouse has been compromised by the systematic development of the adjacent sites throughout the twentieth century.