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ESB HQ to be demolished

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  • #32
    2 stroke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭2 stroke


    Where's the "Blast it with piss" option?


  • #33
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    MadsL wrote: »
    Huh?

    Do I really need to roll out the sarcasm tags?


  • #34
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Augmerson wrote: »
    I'm willing to let it go as I can see you're getting a bit upset about it, I could tell by the rolleyes inclusion.

    I'm so happy we have your blessing. (*avoids rolleyes, but really appropriate here*)


  • #35
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Nodin wrote: »
    Do I really need to roll out the sarcasm tags?

    Sorry. My goat has disappeared.


  • #36
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Get rid of Cork? Where do I sign up?

    No longer a Dublin thread now is it?


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  • #37
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    MadsL wrote: »
    Sorry. My goat has disappeared.


    I'd suggest you consider that story while we excavate your back garden.


  • #38
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    MadsL wrote: »
    No longer a Dublin thread now is it?
    No odds to me. I'm in Donegal, they are all 'out foreign' as far as I'm concerned.:pac:


  • #39
    BabyGorilla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 99 ✭✭BabyGorilla


    MadsL wrote: »
    Huh?

    Dublin's Georgian Granite paving was part of the reason Dublin's Georgian quarter lost a bid to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site a few years back. UNESCO felt DCC were not doing enough to preserve the paving.

    Sure 200 year old paving, why save that?


    Montrond says to tell you it is verily one step short of Avenue de la Motte-Piquet.

    ahawhawhaw


  • #40
    crockholm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    Keep the facade in line with its neighbouring buildings,in a true Georgian style-complete with parapets,axed flat cambered arches and semi-elipitcal arches over doorways.Anything less is a cop out to some lazy half assed asshole architect who couldn't be bothered researching Georgian architecture and instead uses bland linear designs as seen in the modified version.

    Nodin-do not bad mouth the granite.


  • #41
    Thoie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭Thoie


    MadsL wrote: »
    Mother of God - wtf is that?

    That's the old ESB shop in Casement Square in Cobh - the first square that cruise ship visitors come across when they disembark. The building with the arches is the old courthouse, which has been the public library for 30+ years ,complete with mezzanine levels and other gorgeous features. The rest of the buildings in the square are mostly businesses/pubs on the ground floor, but the majority still have original features upstairs.

    Directly behind the viewpoint linked is the Lusitania memorial - the bodies from the Lusitania were stored in the library/courthouse when first recovered before being brought for burial.

    Based on the fact that it's even more of a tourist destination than Fitzwilliam Street, and is smaller and easier to replace, I think it should get first dibs :)


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  • #42
    Dr Turk Turkelton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Dr Turk Turkelton


    MadsL wrote: »
    Huh?

    Dublin's Georgian Granite paving was part of the reason Dublin's Georgian quarter lost a bid to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site a few years back. UNESCO felt DCC were not doing enough to preserve the paving.

    Sure 200 year old paving, why save that?

    Sure wasn't the budget easy enough on us this week so there must be a few quid in the coffers again.
    If the paving is that old we must be able to afford a new bit now?


  • #43
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Thoie wrote: »
    That's the old ESB shop in Casement Square in Cobh - the first square that cruise ship visitors come across when they disembark. The building with the arches is the old courthouse, which has been the public library for 30+ years ,complete with mezzanine levels and other gorgeous features. The rest of the buildings in the square are mostly businesses/pubs on the ground floor, but the majority still have original features upstairs.

    Directly behind the viewpoint linked is the Lusitania memorial - the bodies from the Lusitania were stored in the library/courthouse when first recovered before being brought for burial.

    Based on the fact that it's even more of a tourist destination than Fitzwilliam Street, and is smaller and easier to replace, I think it should get first dibs :)

    I'm astonished that a people's liberation front have not tackled that as a public service. That is quite THE most horrific piece of cultural vandalism I every saw. It looks like a bunker from WW2.


  • #44
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Cuchulainn1. wrote: »
    Sure wasn't the budget easy enough on us this week so there must be a few quid in the coffers again.
    If the paving is that old we must be able to afford a new bit now?

    Especially if someone who works for DCC needs a new bit of garden path. ;)


  • #45
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    crockholm wrote: »
    .................

    Nodin-do not bad mouth the granite.


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=87067525&postcount=33


  • #46
    crockholm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    Nodin wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=87067525&postcount=33

    Yes. You do-you're cagey enough at the best of times.:)


  • #47
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    I don't see the point in rebuilding it to mimic the old building fronts. It'd be a different story if they were actually preserving the original ones, but why rebuild simply for the sake of nostalgia and at the expense of versatility.

    Give the old design a new twist would be my choice, but the example put forward by Grafton looks awful.


  • #48
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    My name is URL wrote: »
    I don't see the point in rebuilding it to mimic the old building fronts. It'd be a different story if they were actually preserving the original ones, but why rebuild simply for the sake of nostalgia and at the expense of versatility.

    Give the old design a new twist would be my choice, but the example put forward by Grafton looks awful.

    Because it would restore the uninterrupted vista down Fitzwilliam St as it was first imagined. It would not improve the site but it would improve the context of the remaining Georgian buildings.


  • #49
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    I don't think the Georgian facade should be rebuilt, the architecture should reflect the era in which it is built.


  • #50
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    April O Neill wrote: »
    I don't think the Georgian facade should be rebuilt, the architecture should reflect the era in which it is built.

    Should it not also have regard for the era when the majority of the buildings around it were built?


  • #51
    ottostreet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭ottostreet


    Dublin forum tbh.


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  • #52
    lkionm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭lkionm


    MadsL wrote: »
    I hope not.

    We need a sarcasm button


  • #53
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    lkionm wrote: »
    We need a sarcasm button

    ...but...but...you said you were being serious. :confused:


  • #54
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    ottostreet wrote: »
    Dublin forum tbh.

    Not a mod tbh.


  • #55
    ottostreet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭ottostreet


    MadsL wrote: »
    Not a mod tbh.

    No I'm not, but that doesn't stop me having an opinion.


  • #56
    lkionm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭lkionm


    MadsL wrote: »
    ...but...but...you said you were being serious. :confused:

    I am always serious. Especially on after hours. No messing here officer


  • #57
    lkionm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭lkionm


    ottostreet wrote: »
    No I'm not, but that doesn't stop me having an opinion.

    Do you live in Dublin?


  • #58
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    ottostreet wrote: »
    No I'm not, but that doesn't stop me having an opinion.

    Here's a thread where your opinion would be on topic. Knock yourself out....

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057063669


  • #59
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    lkionm wrote: »
    I am always serious. Especially on after hours. No messing here officer

    *narrows eyes*


  • #60
    JupiterKid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,955 ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Delighted at this news. :)

    That monstrosity of a 1960s groundscraper was
    a serious blot on Dublin's Georgian Mile. Rebuild
    with the original Georgian facades - but rebuild
    properly with original internal layouts and
    plasterwork as much as possible - not just facades with a modern
    office block inside.


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  • #61
    ottostreet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭ottostreet


    lkionm wrote: »
    Do you live in Dublin?

    Nope, not since 2010!


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