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Canada House St Stephens Green

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  • 29-03-2014 12:01am
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    terryhobdell
    Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭


    Great to see this monstrosity knocked down. Pity it was ever built. Let's hope it's replacement is a credit to its architect.
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    JTMan
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    The replacement building does not look much better.


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    terryhobdell
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    Fungus wrote: »
    The replacement building does not look much better.

    Fungus I think you are right is the photo of the new building or the old? They look the same.


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    Teyla Emmagan
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    I am very confused. That looks like the building they are knocking to me. Same poky windows?

    They are working on it non stop anyway, I was in the NCH on Wed and there were still men on the building at 10.30pm. I would love to see more of these ugly buildings being knocked down.


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    Teyla Emmagan
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    This is the existing building. There's not much in it really (they are nearly as bad as each other).

    Canada_House.png


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    dan1895
    Registered Users Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    Fungus wrote: »
    The replacement building does not look much better.

    That looks like it was designed in the fifties. Horrible.


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    chopper6
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    dan1895 wrote: »
    That looks like it was designed in the fifties. Horrible.


    To my mind nowhere near as poxy as that art gallery at the top of nassau St.

    How they got permission to shoehorn that into a georgian street is beyond me.


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    Aard
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    Considering that the building will be charging the highest commercial rents in the city, I'm not surprised the skimped on design. I wish the building had more 'verticality' to it, either through additional storeys or by breaking up the mass, because the proposed design looks very boxy. There's eight bays on the front - if a design technique had been used to make it appear like 4+4 then the building would fit in better imo.


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