Stephen's Green Centre redevelopment

Fair amount of rose tinted there. Our streets always looked like your average British high street. Nothing about Dublin or any Irish city was every especially unique.

Also you have chosen the most commercial streets in the city which every city even the cities on the continent those foreigners come from have them. Paris, Madrid, London and all the others.

I've been going since I was a child and use the dunnes regularly enough still. I have a soft spot for it somewhat but the inside is a disaster and not commercially viable. The new design is so ugly though on the exterior. I don't know why we can't put a front on it in a classical style like how the Shelbourne hotel looks or along those lines, I guess it's down to cost and the developers won't pay for fancy exteriors. Pic below is from Warsaw, I really wish we did this kind of thing instead of bland buildings being built all over the city centre. I'm guessing Warsaw has rules in that you have to keep to a certain standard that will enrich the city aesthetically.

but but, pastiche!

The style of the area is not Georgian only. St. Stephen's Green park in its current form was re-designed in 1880. It is a classic Victorian park with a few Edwardian augments put in later like the Fusilier's Arch entrance.

Grafton Street is Georgian but with later Victorian and Edwardian additions in there too.

The Shelbourne Hotel a bit down the road was built in 1824. Victorian.

wow- it cost £50 million in 1988- that was a huge investment for the time. I don’t think it’s been that successful, maybe parts of it like Dunnes stores and the car park have been but the core shopping Centre I wouldn’t think so