Dame St Central Bank building

aloyisious

When the CB Staff leave the building for their new premises, what do you think the vacant building should be used for?

Would you turn it over to the Arts, turn it over to the Temple Bar Business people for apartments and shops, or use it to accommodate women and kids left homeless due to violent/abusive partners, or even the charities like Simon and Focus?

super_furry

Skate park. Those pricks ruined some of the best skating when they put those poxy fences up in the first place.

banquo

Originally I was all for the Abbey Theatre, but now I think that should go to O'Connell Street. At least then Dublin would have one decent street.

But something cultural. Not another flippin' bank.

Fukuyama

aloyisious wrote: »

When the CB Staff leave the building for their new premises, what do you think the vacant building should be used for?

Would you turn it over to the Arts, turn it over to the Temple Bar Business people for apartments and shops, or use it to accommodate women and kids left homeless due to violent/abusive partners, or even the charities like Simon and Focus?

Sure to hell with the homeless men.

HeidiHeidi

The Central Library idea is the best one I've heard so far.

Celly Smunt

aloyisious wrote: »

When the CB Staff leave the building for their new premises, what do you think the vacant building should be used for?

Would you turn it over to the Arts, turn it over to the Temple Bar Business people for apartments and shops, or use it to accommodate women and kids left homeless due to violent/abusive partners, or even the charities like Simon and Focus?

Me Bollocks would I.

marketty

McDonald's/Starbucks etc.
Ya know, something nice

Fr_Dougal

Maybe a Tesco.

HeidiHeidi

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Maybe a Tesco.

Wouldn't surprise me in the least.

Anita Blow

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

The Central Library idea is the best one I've heard so far.

Is that about giving BoI the Central Bank building in exchange for College Green and turning that into a library?

Heard it on the radio and think it's a brilliant idea. Can't fathom why such an important building (College Green) is essentially closed to the public

HeidiHeidi

Anita Blow wrote: »

Is that about giving BoI the Central Bank building in exchange for College Green and turning that into a library?

Heard it on the radio and think it's a brilliant idea. Can't fathom why such an important building (College Green) is essentially closed to the public

I think I've heard that option as well, but a good while back I heard a proposal to make the Central Bank into the library itself, which I think would be a fanastic idea.

NegativeCreep

One massive nightclub with actual good music. It would be brilliant!

WoollyRedHat

NegativeCreep wrote: »

One massive nightclub with actual good music. It would be brilliant!

Like a proper Ministry of Sound or something. How big is the Central Bank on the inside anyway?

steve9859

It should be the library. Having the library of a capital city stuck away upstairs in a pretty shabby shopping centre is ridiculous....

NegativeCreep

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Like a proper Ministry of Sound or something. How big is the Central Bank on the inside anyway?

I'd say if a few interior walls were taken out it'd be massive. Then with the different floors you could have different music types and stuff. It would be so good :pac:

Grimebox

steve9859 wrote: »

It should be the library. Having the library of a capital city stuck away upstairs in a pretty shabby shopping centre is ridiculous....

Where's this now?

WoollyRedHat

NegativeCreep wrote: »

I'd say if a few interior walls were taken out it'd be massive. Then with the different floors you could have different music types and stuff. It would be so good :pac:

Sounds fantastic. We could have it as a library during the day to please the wordly folk as well.

luckyglen88

Grimebox wrote: »

Where's this now?

The building is massive was in it as part of open house Dublin great view of the city from the top floor.

NegativeCreep

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Sounds fantastic. We could have it as a library during the day to please the wordly folk as well.

Yeah that'd be grand :L
And the government could grant it the extended hours license thing just to make sure people actually go there and it doesn't close down after a few months.

I'm getting excited already and it's not even happening :pac:

admiralofthefleet

burn it down with all the goths and emos that hang around outside it every saturday

markpb

Grimebox wrote: »

Where's this now?

The central library is in Ilac.

Duckworth_Luas

I'd turn it into a Spar, for convenient shopping.

Then inside the Spar I'd put a Londis, so you could have convenient shopping while you shop.

Inside the Londis I'd then open a Centra, for convenient shopping while you shop conveniently while you shop.

Inside that I'd have a Mace and inside that again a Costcutter.

You can never get enough convenience stores!

WoollyRedHat

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Yeah that'd be grand :L
And the government could grant it the extended hours license thing just to make sure people actually go there and it doesn't close down after a few months.

I'm getting excited already and it's not even happening :pac:

This is clearly your mission in life, go out and bring the mecca club to our city!
Mecca, there's your name.

admiralofthefleet

steve9859 wrote: »

It should be the library. Having the library of a capital city stuck away upstairs in a pretty shabby shopping centre is ridiculous....

the ilac isnt shabby

NegativeCreep

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

This is clearly your mission in life, go out and bring the mecca club to our city!
Mecca, there's your name.

Don't worry, I'll sort it :L

WoollyRedHat

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Don't worry, I'll sort it :L

I hope so, we need a proper club, and it's location is ideal! Other names, Nucleus or Galaxy.

NegativeCreep

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

I hope so, we need a proper club, and it's location is ideal! Other names, Nucleus or Galaxy.

I'm rubbish at names Nucleus sounds good

SHOVELLER

Frank McDonald's idea makes the most sense. Bank of Ireland to move out of College Green into the Central Bank building with the old Parliament House to be turned into a proper city centre library. Also College Green should be pedestrianised but that is another story.

Also the Central Bank building is hideous. Ok not the appalling mess that is Liberty Hall but in an ideal world it should be pulled down. As it is the architect erected completely **** buildings all around the city.

grizzly

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

the ilac isnt shabby

The Ilac is were dreams go to die.

NegativeCreep

I don't see the point in having it as a library tbh. Tourists won't go to it as you have the libraries in Trinity with the book of Kells and everything else. People won't travel all the way into the city centre to use it as there are libraries closer to where everyone lives. Libraries are crap anyway. In the future I see no need for them, books will all be online and you can use free internet in nearly every coffee shop these days. Pointless.

Lapin

As the former Central Bank it would make an ideal museum to the history of Irish banking fúck ups of recent years that have landed us in the mess we're in now.

Only problem is, the place mightn't be big enough to house such an exhibition of incompitence.

HeidiHeidi

Lapin wrote: »

As the former Central Bank it would make an ideal museum to the history of Irish banking fúck ups of recent years that have landed us in the mess we're in now.

Only problem is, the place mightn't be big enough to house such an exhibition of incompitence.

For this very reason I reckon the Anglo shell on the quays should be left as is, as a monument to all that was wrong with the last few years. There's plenty other buildings that I'm sure could accomodate the Central Bank.

But that's a different argument, in fairness.....

iamstop

They should make it into a legal brothel. Each floor can cater to a different fetish, getting weirder and freakier as you ascend.

oppenheimer1

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

For this very reason I reckon the Anglo shell on the quays should be left as is, as a monument to all that was wrong with the last few years. There's plenty other buildings that I'm sure could accomodate the Central Bank.

But that's a different argument, in fairness.....

There aren't actually.

As for turning the Central bank into a library, I don't think it is a runner. For one the building is enormous, I don't know what you would fill it with. Secondly, it would require a major refit to make it capable of carrying the weight of the books.

It is really only suitable for offices. I'm guessing they will try and sell it to a major international financial institution. They could even recentralise some civil servants there. I'd stick the department of the environment there and open up the Custom House.

shakin

Great place for a city library with study zones and quiet areas in the city centre. Maybe a rooftop garden if possible. Its a big building so make it accessible to a few different tastes.

the purple tin

iamstop wrote: »

They should make it into a legal brothel. Each floor can cater to a different fetish, getting weirder and freakier as you ascend.

A slight change to the name and "central ****" is born.

MagicMarker

They should put in a shít load of "cube" rooms that move around at regular intervals. Then in the middle of the night we can kidnap a few assholes (I nominate Bertie Ahern, John Waters, Twink, Sean Fitzpatrick & Jedward) and **** them in a room and sit back and enjoy them trying to figure out how to escape. Preferably they'll all just kill each other and/or die by booby trap, but it's likely that Jedward will escape as they're "special".

Milk & Honey

It should be made into public toilets and puke rooms for Temple Bar. If it is not big enough a few huts could be put on the plaza to take the overflow.

Remmy

cattle mart, I see no downsides to this.

kodoherty93

Has anyone been to the central Library recently. You can never get a seat and when it opens at 10am every seat is gone by 10;30 by students studying or language students studying.

The central library isnt the best in the ilac as its the most easy thing to get to. You have to walk through the ****ty centre to get to it and there is nothing open by 6 pm. If the library was open planned it would definitely be used.

Forget turning it into a homeless shelter etc. Dublin 2 already has a enough social problems without adding more to it

Archeron

Strip away as much as possible,but use the concrete frame to create an ascending, accessible modern hanging gardens, Babylon style.

Solair

How about not moving the central bank at all and selling off that former Anglo HQ for some commercial purpose?

I find it hard to believe they could possibly need that much space.

oppenheimer1

Solair wrote: »

How about not moving the central bank at all and selling off that former Anglo HQ for some commercial purpose?

I find it hard to believe they could possibly need that much space.

The central bank is currently split over three sites in Dublin. Dame St, Harcourt St and the IFSC.. Dame St was too small a long time ago for the operation.

I actually found a video documentary on the construction of the building. Interesting to see Dublin the way it was in the early 70's

http://vimeo.com/53870696#

mad m

Put a Dr Quirkeys into it.....have abseiling off the top of it, 5euro a pop....:D

LivelineDipso

There is **** all for families in central Dublin so they should have things like the Fry Model Railway in there and a Kids science park and lots of things for the family. Central Dublin is a ****ty place for families with kids compared to other cities.

Napper Hawkins

grizzly wrote: »

The Ilac is were dreams go to die.

Lol, couldn't have put it better myself!

Hate the kip.

kowloon

MagicMarker wrote: »

They should put in a shít load of "cube" rooms that move around at regular intervals. Then in the middle of the night we can kidnap a few assholes (I nominate Bertie Ahern, John Waters, Twink, Sean Fitzpatrick & Jedward) and **** them in a room and sit back and enjoy them trying to figure out how to escape. Preferably they'll all just kill each other and/or die by booby trap, but it's likely that Jedward will escape as they're "special".

Fcuked if I can think of any of them good enough with numbers to fill out the group.

chrissb7

rip it down it's a bloody eyesore!

opinion guy

NegativeCreep wrote: »

One massive nightclub with actual good music. It would be brilliant!

It would be **** because you'd have to walk for ten minutes just to find another person - flipping thing is huge - problably bigger than allt he clubspace in temple bar put together

starviewadams

Childrens Hospital?something we actually need!

optimistic_

An Arts space - connected with Modern Art Museum, and NCH maybe - redo some part of it as a theatre for music and plays, other parts of it for exhibitions - It'd really improve the area I think.


The IFB should get a large portion of it for storage of archive footage, they need it.