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Bord Pleanala blocks demolition of Ireland’s first skyscraper Liberty Hall

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  • #2
    pabloh999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 516 ✭✭✭pabloh999


    They refused us a shiny new large building, which would have created plenty of work for a few years?

    Absolute gob****es


  • #3
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    "skyscraper" :pac:


  • #4
    Rigol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭Rigol


    Oh ffs ...whats their excuse this time.


  • #5
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Irish architects of the last 50 years have a hell of a lot to answer for.


  • #6
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    Skyscraper?!

    Ok, you do get some very low-hanging clouds sometimes, but seriously?
    And that thing is hideous.


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  • #7
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,702 ✭✭✭squod


    Burn it out first.


  • #8
    Rigol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭Rigol


    "national historic and social significance"

    kick these cnts out.


  • #9
    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,372 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    Can't do abortion and can't build tall buildings. The country needs a bit of moving forward in lots of ways.


  • #10
    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,372 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    squod wrote: »
    Burn it out first.

    Is that with Siptu inside or outside?


  • #11
    FatherLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    i like it.








    ah just kidding, it's shit.


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  • #12
    Leftist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,230 ✭✭✭Leftist


    these clowns are having a steffi graff. Always blocking things, probably means they don't have to do any work.


  • #13
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    It's an awful grey concrete block with an air of 70s depression.


  • #14
    pabloh999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 516 ✭✭✭pabloh999


    Rigol wrote: »
    Oh ffs ...whats their excuse this time.

    Detract from Custom House or some such ****e:confused:
    DCC had already approved this, then an bord pleanala came in and stopped it.
    Why are DCC even involved in the process when they have no power at all?
    So it goes through normal planning process with DCC, gets approved.
    Grand.
    But then it goes through another process with an bord pleanala, what a total waste of time/money.


  • #15
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Huh? Only argument is that it makes the Custom House look better in the same way that standing an average girl next to an ugly mess makes her look better.


  • #16
    westendgirlie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    I have mates in London who live in council flats higher up than that building!

    The term is Hi-Rise not skyscraper.


  • #17
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    westendgirlie wrote: »
    I have mates in London who live in council flats higher up than that building!

    The term is Hi-Rise not skyscraper.

    shíte pile is a better term :D


  • #18
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    The beards wont be happy

    which is good


  • #19
    jasonmcco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 174 ✭✭jasonmcco


    the madness is bord planaaalllla. Who are they? They performed great during the tiger didnt they?


  • #20
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    I really can't imagine anything uglier than that sh*theap of a building that looks like a council flat.

    Why can't we design nice things?


  • #21
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,079 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    Irish architects of the last 50 years have a hell of a lot to answer for.

    It seems that it is An Bord Pleanala and the councils that make the end decisions on most of this thing as opposed to architects that are putting forward proposals


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  • #22
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    Why can't we design nice things?

    idk, maybe our architects drink at work?


  • #23
    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭later12


    Liberty Hall was slightly more beautiful when it was first built; it had Mosaic cladding and clear glass so it looked far more transparent.

    Having said that, it was built by an engineer and not an architect, and some people are of the opinion that it shows, too. The building has no artistic merit to speak of; it is exceptionally dull.


  • #24
    ChippingSodbury
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,396 ✭✭✭ChippingSodbury


    How were SIPTU going to pay for this? From increased subscriptions collected from their members who, in their own words, are living on the breadline? Or do they have a war-chest full of money collected from their members (living on the breadline) already?
    Sure, it would create some jobs for a while but isn't that the mentality that got us into the mess we're in at the moment: you can't export buildings (at least not this kind...)
    Why can't they move into one of the numerous empty office spaces around the city? Or did they just want to keep up with Anglo and have a nice new shiny office by the river?:pac:


  • #25
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    davet82 wrote: »
    idk, maybe our architects drink at work?

    The designer of Liberty Hall was clearly inspired by a milk carton.


  • #26
    pabloh999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 516 ✭✭✭pabloh999


    http://www.pleanala.ie/news/240350/240350.htm


    It is considered that the site of Liberty Hall is of national
    historic and social significance....

    These are the same shower who would have point blank refused Liberty Hall in the first place, now its a national treasure.
    Who are they?
    They need to be held accountable for their massive decisions which affect everyone of us indirectly

    Leaving the aesthetics aside, the country is on its knees, constuction industry is in freefall and is crying out for construction projects like this:(


  • #27
    Freddy Smelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 980 ✭✭✭Freddy Smelly


    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    The designer of Liberty Hall was clearly inspired by a milk carton.

    i dunno it looks more like an aluminium climbing frame... maybe the architect was a four year old


  • #28
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    later12 wrote: »
    Having said that, it was built by an engineer and not an architect, and some people are of the opinion that it shows, too. The building has no artistic merit to speak of; it is exceptionally dull.

    And this 'thing' is better, by being designed by an architect?


    http://www.constructireland.ie/articles/0216highrenaissance.php


  • #29
    ChippingSodbury
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,396 ✭✭✭ChippingSodbury


    And another thing while I'm at it.

    It was refused on the basis that it would be visually intrusive i.e. because it would be the tallest building around. How many more buildings have already been refused for being too tall? Maybe they don't get the concept of having one tall building and then another, and then a few more and then they wouldn't be intrusive. One building has to be first...

    if there was more high-rise development in the city centre, there wouldn't be such an urban sprawl all around. A more compact city means less issues with providing public transport, utilities etc. etc.


  • #30
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    is there links to the plans for the proposed building that was refused anybody?


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  • #31
    henryporter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭henryporter


    Clueless Philistines:

    http://docomomo.ie/2010/03/liberty-hall-docomomo-observation-irish-times/

    It's probably the best building in Dublin after Busarus.


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