New toilets in Cahir. A godawful sight

JabbaTheHut

What kind of a monstrosity is that thing they're coming close to finishing in Cahir to replace the old public toilets? It's brutal. Does not fit in anywhere in the town. I'm told that the plans featured in The Nationalist for a month, and there was no objections. I haven't bought The Nationalist ( or pretty well any other newspaper ) in years, so never saw it myself.

It's hideous.

PacMan

JabbaTheHut wrote: »

It's hideous.

I think that is an over statement regarding Cahir Town.
Its rather nice, and when there on business, I time it so I can relax in one of the coffee shops in the town.

Regarding your view on the public restrooms, well I assume they are near the Castle.
Planning permission has to be published for all "Locals" to review and bring their comments to them to review. Are you annoyed that you did not see this in the local papers ?

What dont you like about the toilets ?
Is it the colour, the facilities themselves, the toilet paper provided ?
Is there a cost, a charge to use the facilities ?

Can you explain please ?

callaway92

Thought the same myself - Looks like Dermot Bannon designed it . .

They aren't fully finished yet tho

callaway92

PacMan wrote: »

I think that is an over statement regarding Cahir Town.
Its rather nice, and when there on business, I time it so I can relax in one of the coffee shops in the town.

Regarding your view on the public restrooms, well I assume they are near the Castle.
Planning permission has to be published for all "Locals" to review and bring their comments to them to review. Are you annoyed that you did not see this in the local papers ?

What dont you like about the toilets ?
Is it the colour, the facilities themselves, the toilet paper provided ?
Is there a cost, a charge to use the facilities ?

Can you explain please ?

The colour is bad - Dark grey.

Design is ugly

JabbaTheHut

PacMan wrote: »

I think that is an over statement regarding Cahir Town.
Its rather nice, and when there on business, I time it so I can relax in one of the coffee shops in the town.

Regarding your view on the public restrooms, well I assume they are near the Castle.
Planning permission has to be published for all "Locals" to review and bring their comments to them to review. Are you annoyed that you did not see this in the local papers ?

What dont you like about the toilets ?
Is it the colour, the facilities themselves, the toilet paper provided ?
Is there a cost, a charge to use the facilities ?

Can you explain please ?

I'm not talking about the town. Talking about the public toilets. You obviously haven't seen it. It's in no way in character with anything in the town. It's much closer looking a ship than a castle or anything Irish. And it is near the castle. It's where the old toilets were.

I'm not annoyed at anything other than the look of it. I'll take a pic when I get the chance and you might get a better idea of what I'm talking about.

JabbaTheHut

callaway92 wrote: »

The colour is bad - Dark grey.

Design is ugly

And it's cladding. Grey cladding.

What it looks like is some architect wanted to make a building that's off the wall, quirky, and totally theirs, so they can say to their architect buddies, "Yeah, I designed this masterpiece".

Effects

Any pics?

Effects

Looks grand so far. I like the construction of the roof!

JabbaTheHut

Oh, it's much closer to completion than that now. From your pic it looks pretty normal.

Effects

That's the most recent one I can find online though.

PacMan

so far, the complaint is just an opinion of an unfinished building which received full planning permission and the plans etc were published on local newspapers ?

Did I get that bit correct ?

callaway92

Effects wrote: »

Looks grand so far. I like the construction of the roof!

Totally different to that now

JabbaTheHut

I took a few pictures of it today. I've tried and failed to embed the pics here so all I can do for now is attach them here.

JabbaTheHut

PacMan wrote: »

so far, the complaint is just an opinion of an unfinished building which received full planning permission and the plans etc were published on local newspapers ?

Did I get that bit correct ?

Have a look at those pictures. If you don't get what I'm saying then I can't help you

NickNickleby

Oh my God, that looks horrendous.

Wouldn't you love to throw it up on a trailer and plant it in the architect's front garden for three months, then each council official , then start again.

Perhaps not all the angles are depicted in your photos, but I cannot imagine it having any redeeming feature, other than whilst using it you can't see how hideous it is.

How do these people get to **** up towns like that.

council doing a similar pile of **** near me. Lovely tree lined park, and they're building what can best be described as a concrete bunker after removing the trees. 320 houses signed a petition not to do it, but they went ahead - well, they're going ahead. Maybe they'll run out of money because more pressing and useful projects are waiting to be done. (yeah, right!).

JabbaTheHut

I didn't take any pics from behind. It's as you'd expect. I hope they don't build that bunker near you. It'd be terrible to put something inappropriate to the scenery up, especially when not needed.

strandroad

It looks like a charging rhino... Why the horn?

donegal.

I kinda like it.

PacMan

JabbaTheHut wrote: »

Have a look at those pictures. If you don't get what I'm saying then I can't help you

Oh Dear, you should have posted the pics in the first instance.
The view of the new restrooms from the street view, makes it look dreadful.
How correct you are and well done for bringing this to our attention.

JabbaTheHut

PacMan wrote: »

Oh Dear, you should have posted the pics in the first instance.
The view of the new restrooms from the street view, makes it look dreadful.
How correct you are and well done for bringing this to our attention.

Yeah, I probably should have posted the pictures first. Didn't think of it. I took a pic of the castle and the tourist office in the background to show how out of place it is

Teyla Emmagan

I also like it, sorry OP. It is better than the tourist office anyway. I like the gray, also quite castley.

Franz Von Peppercorn

I was prepared to scoff, not at the building but at the conservatism regarding it. Then I saw it.

Ludicrous. And it will date.

ouxbbkqtswdfaw

Relax everybody, it will draw people to the town. To see the most hideous dreadful public toilet probably in the entire world. Simply horrendous.

Yester

It's kind of cool but it doesn't belong there. Are you sure aliens didn't land?

wildwillow

Cahir was always a pleasant stop when travelling from north Leinster to West Cork and the children could run around the castle grounds. Such a hideous structure would have me thinking twice about stopping. How did it get past planning? I have no problem with modern structures but the placing of this near the castle and the well preserved streetscape is a big mistake.

facehugger99

Horrific.

Someone got paid to design that.

Water John

Not belonging there, is its chief offence. Now, the generic design and colour scheme used on Fire Brigade Station countrywide, is plain ugly.

ouxbbkqtswdfaw

I wonder who will take responsibility for this visual nightmare? Will any dignitary be available to perform the opening?

Water John

Before the next election, there definitely will be an opening splash/slash.

Mr. Guappa

There was an April Fools doing the rounds that they mixed up the plans for Cahir toilets with Helvic, so Cahir got a boat-shaped toilet, and Helvic got one resembling a castle. Entirely believable tbh.

They've been taking the proverbial with how long its taking to finish. Feels like they've been at it for 6 months at this stage.

iPhone.

wow, that really does look brutal alright.

There's probably buildings on the Gaza strip that look in better shape than that!

Del.Monte

Absolutely brutal but no more than I would expect from the council. Cahir is a lovely little town but with a coterie of local authority gob****es in control. Whatever happened to the Gerry O'Looney's bar on Church Street?

JabbaTheHut

Del.Monte wrote: »

Absolutely brutal but no more than I would expect from the council. Cahir is a lovely little town but with a coterie of local authority gob****es in control. Whatever happened to the Gerry O'Looney's bar on Church Street?

Still there, known as The Granary. I think ti's far enough away from the toilets to keep some dignity.

JabbaTheHut

Oh. I'm told it's 40c to use the toilet. Not 50. Not 20. Don't know if that's actually true, but you'll have to hold on till you have 2x20c in your pocket to enjoy Jean Luc Picards shuttle toilet if it is.

iPhone.

I'd be too uncomfortable to take a dump, I'd be looking around furtively in case bin laden launched himself from out of the depths of the cave

EDIT - actually if I took a dump on the floor and kicked it outside it'd probably look better than the jacks!!

JabbaTheHut

iPhone. wrote: »

I'd be too uncomfortable to take a dump, I'd be looking around furtively in case bin laden launched himself from out of the depths of the cave

EDIT - actually if I took a dump on the floor and kicked it outside it'd probably look better than the jacks!!

Lol. And I thought I didn't like it.

jlm29

Mr. Guappa wrote: »

They've been taking the proverbial with how long its taking to finish. Feels like they've been at it for 6 months at this stage.

This... it’s taking a ridiculously long time to build them. I’d say the castle came together quicker than that monstrosity

tippspur

It will cost 40c for a pee when it's open.

JabbaTheHut

jlm29 wrote: »

This... it’s taking a ridiculously long time to build them. I’d say the castle came together quicker than that monstrosity

From the page on the Tipperary county council site that the pic is from;

" Construction work on the new facility is progressing well and expected to be completed early next year."

That was on November 27.

callaway92

tippspur wrote: »

It will cost 40c for a pee when it's open.

So they are starting to charge to go for a piss now? Bunch of goofs.

Granted I haven't used those toilets in about 15 years, but that kind of stuff annoys me big time.

Fionn

Sorta looks like the aftermath of a container truck crash! :eek:

anyone know how much it cost??

ford2600

While I don't like it and it won't age well, people are always resistant to anything new or different.

It's that spirit to try different things that has created the world's great designs.. For every masterpiece/inspiration their will be countless blobs of sh1te and everything in between.

Reminds me of Thomond College, which hasn't a right angle in it and one some award of other in the 1970's (it may have been taken off them after as it was built the wrong way around or so I was lead to believe)

I'll just leave this here
https://www.vox.com/2015/3/31/8314115/when-the-eiffel-tower-opened-to-the-public

JabbaTheHut

I think the old toilets did need replacing. But not with something that sits in opposition to everything else in a Heritage Town. That building has it's place somewhere, but not alongside a more than 1000 year old building.

ford2600

JabbaTheHut wrote: »

I think the old toilets did need replacing. But not with something that sits in opposition to everything else in a Heritage Town. That building has it's place somewhere, but not alongside a more than 1000 year old building.

Its fairly common with architects, in my very limited experience, that were their is dominant old building rather than try to ape it they contrast it would something supermodern/different. Its common enough when extending an old house for example.

Fake old could have looked even worse.

As Glen Hoddle said after some Coventry lad kicked him around Wembley in a FA Cup final; "it's easier destroy a picture than paint one"!

JabbaTheHut

ford2600 wrote: »

Fake old could have looked even worse.

It would want to have been really terrible to be worse than that.

ouxbbkqtswdfaw

It will become famous for people to come and see what a disaster can be made of constructing a simple public toilet.

fineso.mom

It's a s**t design for a public toilet......

holystungun9

Maybe the design is to distract peolpe from asking about what it has cost? Oh well.

Odelay

holystungun9 wrote: »

Maybe the design is to distract peolpe from asking about what it has cost? Oh well.

I don't think it will cost too much. They should have some change out of €2m.

callaway92

Just looking at it at the weekend. It is supposed to be in the design of The Titanic by any chance?

whisky_galore

It's like a piece of alien spacecraft that fell off or a screwed up attempt at Origami.
Awful thing.

Did Stevie Wonder design it?