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Fcuking Eyesores!!

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    #32
    Collie D
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    Busaras in Dublin, ugly piece of 60s "architecture". I quite like the Spike though so maybe I'm not the best judge.


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    #33
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    MaybeLogic wrote: »
    Default Town.
    Is Amsterdam default town now? When did this happen?
    I thought Rotterdam was bigger/better?


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    #34
    bluefinger
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    Can't believe Civic Offices on Wood Quay haven't been mentioned yet. They obscure the view of Christchurch Cathedral from the Northside and look desperate from Dame Street.


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    #35
    Collie D
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    bluefinger wrote: »
    Can't believe Civic Offices on Wood Quay haven't been mentioned yet. They obscure the view of Christchurch Cathedral from the Northside and look desperate from Dame Street.

    Was just about to edit my post to include that. Not an ugly building but the one it obstructs is just so much better


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    #36
    El Siglo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    MaybeLogic wrote: »
    The Parisiens hated their Great Phallic Symbol in the Sky when it first went up but sentimentality won them over in the end ,as will the Spike,no doubt,eventually finding a place in Dubliners' hearts.

    Yes because it reminds them of something else that finds its way into their veins. I doubt the 'spike' will arouse as much awe as the Eiffel tower in fairness.


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    #37
    Collie D
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    El Siglo wrote: »
    Yes because it reminds them of something else that finds its way into their veins. I doubt the 'spike' will arouse as much awe as the Eiffel tower in fairness.

    How witty! All Dubs are junkies and spike looks like needle.:rolleyes: You're wasted on us, the spirt of Wilde lives on


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    #38
    ronnie3585
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    Anyone from Galway will know this disaster of a building, completely out of keeping with the area it's in. Looks more like the new MI5 headquarters.


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    #39
    oldyouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    Whites Hotel in Wexford. Big green pod of a yoke at the front entrance.


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    #40
    ronano
    Registered Users Posts: 3,137 ✭✭✭ronano


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    The thread that should have been.

    What would you class as the biggest 'eye sore' in the 32 counties?

    For me it has to be that Vodafone screen on Henry St, wrecks my head.

    Stick Sky Sports on it or gtfo.

    So what's yours?

    People not allowed :)

    God completely!

    It's too loud,bright and doesn't fit into the scheme of the street. When is it getting removed! I hate it with a passion


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    #41
    Amalgam
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Amalgam


    I think this arose over a problem with planning, but I much preferred the Central Bank of Ireland (Dame Street, Dublin) when the cross beams on the roof were exposed. The railings they have at the bottom to keep the steps 'private' are woeful too.


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    #42
    Zwillinge
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    UCD.

    Giant concrete slab city!


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    #43
    biko
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    ronnie3585 wrote: »
    Anyone from Galway will know this disaster of a building, completely out of keeping with the area it's in. Looks more like the new MI5 headquarters.
    You know, I don't really mind it. It's the Burren Mount next door that I find most offensive on the old eyes.


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    #44
    R0ot
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    The spire.


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    #45
    silverharp
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    Dorset street
    Bolands mill
    Poolbeg chimneys

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #46
    RMD
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    Dublin port area. Beautiful hills and all that behind, blocked by **** load of cranes, extremely large oil containers and other industrial crap. You'll know what I mean if you've ever looked at the mountains from the clontarf seafront.


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    #47
    Judgement Day
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    County Leitrim
    The Spire
    Liberty Hall
    Civic Bunkers on Wood Quay
    Hawkins House Social Welfare Offices on Hawkins Street
    ILAC Centre
    The entire DART line


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    #48
    DetectivFoxtrot
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    Cork Street/Coombe area of Dublin is an eyesore in general. They attempted to develop it during the property boom, but they did a half job and what's left is some vacant high-rises,a load of empty (waiting to be demolished) corpo flats and some of the most disgustingly ugly factories I've ever seen. I feel sorry for the people who live around there - 'specially those who bought exorbitantly priced shoe box apartments - it's majorly depressing


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    #49
    DetectivFoxtrot
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    forgot to mention the civic offices beside Christchurch - talk about ruining one of Dublins/Irelands most beautiful creations.


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    #50
    Sulmac
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    The Poolbeg Chimneys have to be high up on that list.

    I hope they tear them down soon.


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    #51
    OutlawPete
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    Arnott's Carpark on Abbey St.

    Everytime I see it I rememeber The Adelphi :mad:


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    #52
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    Sulmac wrote: »
    The Poolbeg Chimneys have to be high up on that list.

    I hope they tear them down soon.

    Noooo...........!

    Don't like the abandoned bathing place at Blackrock Dart Station. Or Liberty Hall.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #53
    Mrmoe
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    The abandoned Parkway Valley shopping centre. Thank you Liam Carroll, thank you very much.:rolleyes:


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    #54
    Quint
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    ESB offices on Fitzwilliam Street.
    Loop Line Bridge.
    Hawkins House
    Dublin Bus office on O'Connell Street
    bluefinger wrote: »
    Can't believe Civic Offices on Wood Quay haven't been mentioned yet. They obscure the view of Christchurch Cathedral from the Northside and look desperate from Dame Street.

    Not to mention what they built over.


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    #55
    kraggy
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    The Burren Mount, Salthill, Galway.


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    #56
    F.R.
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    The new Courts of Criminal Justice on Parkgate St. . Sticks out like a sore thumb.


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    #57
    Sir Gallagher
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    I still don't get the hatred of the Spire i think it suffers from the whole Irish mentality of being skeptical and cynical about about anything new or different. Anybody i know who visited the city was pretty impressed with it, seems to be only the Irish who have a problem with it maybe because its not a big 50 foot monument erected in honour of Michael Collins.


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    #58
    ronaneire
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    F.R. wrote: »
    The new Courts of Criminal Justice on Parkgate St. . Sticks out like a sore thumb.

    Have to disagree, I think it fits in quite nicely

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/images/2009/1123/243136_1.jpg


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    #59
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    alwaysadub wrote: »
    the spire is an obvious one. Whoever came up with the idea of sticking a big(now dirty)needle in the middle of O Connell St should've got a needle shoved in their eye as punishment..
    So much for it being self cleaning! :rolleyes:


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    #60
    Quint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,407 ✭✭✭Quint


    F.R. wrote: »
    The new Courts of Criminal Justice on Parkgate St. . Sticks out like a sore thumb.

    Cost €300m and doesn't even have anywhere to park


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    #61
    ronaneire
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    Quint wrote: »
    Cost €300m and doesn't even have anywhere to park

    Where did you get your figure?

    Irishtimes.com
    A €140 million criminal court complex designed to centralise and augment Dublin’s existing courts services was unveiled today.
    The Criminal Courts of Justice (CCJ), located on the western side of the city’s legal quarter on the corner of Parkgate Street and Infirmary Road, contains 22 courts and an additional 450 rooms.


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