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The cobbles are going!

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  • #32
    Jonathan
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  • #33
    Thirdfox
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    Kwekubo wrote: »
    How is saying "Transformers in disguise" infringement of trademark/copyright?

    Naming a building would be - I suppose I didn't make that clear in my original post.


  • #34
    t0mm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 359 ✭✭t0mm


    Call the building Cybertron.


    :pac:"Hey wanna go grab some lunch?"


    :cool:"No man I'm heading to Cybertron now, got a lecture at 2."


    Awesome.


  • #35
    the flananator
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    These Transformers references are lost on me I'm afraid!

    Great news about the gym though. Might actually be able to move around in there this year!


  • #36
    The Black Oil
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    Will Clint Eastwood be calling around to tell us to get off his lawn?

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



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  • #37
    t0mm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 359 ✭✭t0mm


    The Black Oil wrote: »
    Will Clint Eastwood be calling around to tell us to get off his lawn?

    No, he wasn't in Transformers.


  • #38
    TedB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 166 ✭✭TedB


    Its an end of an era for TCD. Once the pride of central Dublin, the capital of progressive thinking, debate and liberality - now its just another Americanised university with hideous buildings which are overpriced, overhyped and universally dispised. They'll take the cobbles - what'll be next? The front arch? You mark my words, they're just waiting for the right opportunity to knock over the GMB. The bastards.


  • #39
    tolosenc
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    TedB wrote: »
    Its an end of an era for TCD. Once the pride of central Dublin, the capital of progressive thinking, debate and liberality - now its just another Americanised university with hideous buildings which are overpriced, overhyped and universally dispised. They'll take the cobbles - what'll be next? The front arch? You mark my words, they're just waiting for the right opportunity to knock over the GMB. The bastards.

    Cantab. re-reg?


  • #40
    Ron DMC
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    obl wrote: »
    Cantab. re-reg?

    Nope.


  • #41
    Podge_irl
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    TedB wrote: »
    They'll take the cobbles - what'll be next? The front arch? You mark my words, they're just waiting for the right opportunity to knock over the GMB. The bastards.

    They're not "taking" the cobbles, they're putting a more accessible path through them. The bit they've done so far looks nice enough I think.


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  • #42
    tolosenc
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    Pics, plz.


  • #43
    andrew
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    That new building's a bit horrible in that pic, I hope it's not as crap in real life.


  • #44
    Napoli
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    I 100% agree with the improvements going on around the college to make it more accessible for disabled students, such as the path along the cobblestones and the extensions on the Pav.

    However, these proposed new buildings look horrible and will detract from the character of the college.


  • #45
    karlr42
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    Aren't the cobbles actually quite new, and only installed in the 20th century?


  • #46
    Peleus
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    ye but theyre nice and thats why we love em. The path better not look sh!te


  • #47
    j1smithy
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    I had another look at the new path today, but I forgot my camera so no photos unfortunately. It looks like the lads have finished it though and it thas been tied off into the cobbles. The path they've laid comes from nowhere and leads to nowhere. This leads me to believe that this is just a sample to see how well the path fits into the context of front square/parliament square. There are also three different patterns in the way they're laid, which also leads me to believe its a sample.

    Rather forward thinking on behalf of the buildings office, but perhaps they were legally obliged to do it. For example the IRFU/FAI were legally required to build a mock up of the facade of Aviva stadium across the railway tracks to see how it would fit in the context of the area.

    It must be noted that the current and capital budgets are entirely seperate and the current problems re funding all apply to the current budget. Trinity must be getting money for capital projects from somewhere (probably a bank, student rooms for a university would be a low risk investment/loan), they've also put out a tender for 1000 student rooms in the city centre or along the DART line. The aim is to be able to offer rooms to any first or second year student that wants them, I believe.

    My 2c anyway. If I remember to bring the camera tomorrow I'll take a few pics.


  • #48
    Bartron Prime
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    The cobblestones were installed in approximately 1969 and most of them were bought from the then Dublin Corporation as they were parking and paving stones. Apparently, on some of them, you can still see the double-yellow lines. This was revealed at a meeting of the Disability Services Committee which looked into it as they examined making the paths. So they do not have the historic 'character' that people seem to think. Indeed, it could be argued purchasing paving stones undermined the 'character' of the Campus. They are also dangerous and very awkward for people with mobility issues. I think it's about time.

    There is a legal requirement for all buildings to be accessible by 2015; so it probably applies to Front Square.

    Is the design for the Long Room Hub the chosen one? There were several designs and I can't remember which one was chosen.


  • #49
    Mental Mickey
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    The cobbles are going?? YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY. I nearly smashed my face in there before. Fell flat on my mush while pushing my chair.


  • #50
    Kwekubo
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    TedB wrote: »
    Its an end of an era for TCD. Once the pride of central Dublin, the capital of progressive thinking, debate and liberality - now its just another Americanised university with hideous buildings which are overpriced, overhyped and universally dispised. They'll take the cobbles - what'll be next? The front arch? You mark my words, they're just waiting for the right opportunity to knock over the GMB. The bastards.

    I don't much care for Cybertron going by these CGI pictures, but the cobbles aren't all that old. They date from after the Great War (defo much older than 1969 though, Bartron), and they're not going, a granite path is simply being added. The GMB was built by knocking down a very nice row of old redbrick houses (numbers 28 through 31) that dated from around the same time as the Rubrics; I think it looks a bit gaudy tbqh, but it has settled quite nicely into its surroundings over the years.


  • #51
    TedB
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    Kwekubo wrote: »
    I don't much care for Cybertron going by these CGI pictures, but the cobbles aren't all that old. They date from after the Great War (defo much older than 1969 though, Bartron), and they're not going, a granite path is simply being added. The GMB was built by knocking down a very nice row of old redbrick houses (numbers 28 through 31) that dated from around the same time as the Rubrics; I think it looks a bit gaudy tbqh, but it has settled quite nicely into its surroundings over the years.

    I agree, and I was being a little hysterical. However, the new building looks grotesque - but then again the Arts block is absolutely vile and I spend most days in there. What to do? I understand you cannot build 'retro' buildings anymore, they just look tacky, but the vain attempts at futurism are a complete travesty.


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  • #52
    notjim
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    TedB wrote: »
    . . . but the vain attempts at futurism are a complete travesty.

    What is futuristic about it, it is completely of its time: if anything it is too tastefully modish and certainly not futuristic, similar ideas appear in lots of contemporary buildings. BTW the building by the Lincoln gates that replaced that cheap eateries, the one that now has Hibernia college in it, is by the same architects and uses a somewhat similar idiom.

    I also think you're wrong about the Arts block, the circulation works so well in it, I think it is one of the best designed university buildings I've been in.


  • #53
    Peleus
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    in fairness we cant go knocking every building that is proposed. sure all the old buildings in campus are cool but we have to have something from our era to look back on in future. I think that building is nice.

    Only problem with those sorts of buildings is that they use ****ty modern money efficient materials that wont last 100s of years like the old library and the museum building.


  • #54
    snappieT
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    If the cobbles only got installed in the '60s, what was there beforehand?


  • #55
    TedB
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    snappieT wrote: »
    If the cobbles only got installed in the '60s, what was there beforehand?

    Tiny pikes.


  • #56
    andrew
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    snappieT wrote: »
    If the cobbles only got installed in the '60s, what was there beforehand?

    AFAIK They were installed a lot before then (like the 20's or 30's) and there are pictures to prove it.


  • #57
    JC 2K3
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    TedB wrote: »
    Its an end of an era for TCD. Once the pride of central Dublin, the capital of progressive thinking, debate and liberality - now its just another Americanised university with hideous buildings which are overpriced, overhyped and universally dispised. They'll take the cobbles - what'll be next? The front arch? You mark my words, they're just waiting for the right opportunity to knock over the GMB. The bastards.
    I agree.

    In order for the university to remain a centre of progressive thinking and liberality, it must remain firmly inaccessible to invalids.


  • #58
    mathew
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    pics of the path..

    You can see the different colour stone. Bear in mind it was raining so thats the colour of the stones when wet


  • #59
    Karlusss
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    I hate it hardstyle.


  • #60
    snappieT
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    I don't think it looks that bad actually. Will be nice to walk on when raining etc.


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  • #61
    TedB
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    The revolution is in motion. The Trinity administration is vying to convert the UNI into a grotesque imitation of an American university. Modularisation, semesterisation - granite paths? What the hell is round the corner? A smoothie stall on campus? This is a disgrace and every student should be appalled by this.


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