Spiral ramps at Dublin Airport

Serves no real purpose other than from a nostalgia point of view. Don't see the reasoning to keep it to be honest.

Based on that post you'd be forgiven for thinking he was talking about something built by the Romans or the Vikings.

Most of the space that was a carpark is already used for other things (offices, workshops etc). There is a small amount of executive (as in daa staff, not Platinum Services) parking there; which was planned to be removed.

It will never reopen and indeed planning would never be given for it to reopen either, FCC are very much restricting the amount of parking on-site.

I can't imagine a ramp built for 1970s cars would be much use for modern ones anyway, so why be forced to keep them?

I would say most are travelling to the airport from either red or blue carpark so do miss them, I always liked them and dont mind brutalist buildings, Didnt really say anything beyond knock them otherwise that side would look stupid compared to rest of building, I do think the below looks quite good tbh so agree with this from council

"The council has also refused planning permission after finding that the demolition of the spiral ramps would diminish the quality of the proposed facade works granted as part of a planning application lodged in 2020.

The planning authority stated that this would result in the eastern facade of terminal one being of a lesser design quality, becoming visually dominant when viewed from the surroundings and would be seriously injurious to the visual amenities and character of the area."

And it was specifically closed after the often forgotten UDA bombing of the airport, in which a staff member died.

They are still used for their original use, as already explained here - for loading and access to the executive parking spaces.

No problem with them going but jeez there is literally zero architectural imagination gone into this new facade. Crap looking.

you wouldn’t get that many cars now, so be no real point. I’ve been up there.. not that big a space.

It was inside, two floors worth.

It could not be on the roof, as the ramps do not reach the roof.