Tear down dublin city centre, replace with high rise buildings

Apply to build anything over 10 stories in dublin and every second person will object. There has been loads of proposals down the years for high rise, they might get past dublin city council but an bord pleanala either refuse it or chop a few stories off.

The original proposal for spencer dock was high rise, it got so controversial that bertie ahern had to comment on it. It got refused and we got more of the same 6-8 story blocks. The river down at the docklands is wide enough to accomodate high rise, hopefully when things pick up again some may get built, but the nimbys and an taisce will be out in force again.

Harry crosbie has permission for a tower down the at the point, the foundations are in but thats as far as it got.now theres a market/big wheel etc in its place. As far as im aware once things turn around it will be built.

Wait for about 20 years before starting large scale redevelopment of Dublin City Centre. By then, most of the recently built apartment blocks will have dissolved in the Irish weather. Seriously, you wouldn't build a treehouse with the rubbish that went into those cardboard shoeboxes.

Hank Delightful Lineman wrote: »

I don't think they should move Benbulben but we need to do a kind of Mt Rushmore jobs on it and carve the faces of some of our beloved past Taosigh on it

Ha! You're 34 years late

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Badgermonkey wrote: »

If you take your eyeline above the shopfronts in the centre of Dublin, you'll find charming detail on many of the buildings which have remained intact since the 1700/1800's.

The destruction of many buildings on Fitwilliam st. by the ESB, Hawkins House, Liam Carrolls developments citywide, the Civic Offices and that god awful thing opposite the Olympia are low points in my opinion.O'Connell st is a case in point of what went wrong, many magnificent buildings adorned with atrocious shopfronts and bad planning, which chronically fed into the mess that part of the city was allowed to become.

the worst building in dublin in my opinion, truly awful-beside city hall, dublin castle and they stick that there-atrocious!

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they trying to be clever with the fake crane!!? horrible.

Tear down dublin city centre & don't replace it







The seat of all evil in today's Ireland

If the city council just maintained the footpaths properly, reduced the dominance of cars, decluttered the streets of sign posts/phone boxes/electrical boxes, enforced the rules on shopfronts, then dublin would be a much much nicer place to be.

They have made streets like O'Connell Street, Westmoreland Street and Grafton Street conservation zones, but haven't enforced any of the new rules. That's why half the shops on O'Connell Street have "temporary sign" in small print at the bottom, because they're trying to fob off the council's new(ish) rules.