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The docklands was wasted on those small office blocks. A Luas and a train right in the middle of it and they put a load of 5 storey buildings there.
I always think it’s astonishing the way Dublin city planners argue that tall buildings in the docklands will ruin the character of the city, and yet they’re happy to grant permission to small ugly buildings right in the historic core of the city and pretend they don’t do any damage to the character of the city. An Taisce, Dublin City council and an Bord Pleanála are all one massive joke.
Look at the state of the building beside City Hall. This piece of crap is what greets tourists going to Dublin castle, madness.
I agree that’s a classic example. I moved to Dublin from a rural area about 5 years ago and I’ve enjoyed living here, but it’s as if the crowd in charge of planning want people to hate the place, for decades they’ve gone out of their way to make the city uglier, more impractical to live in, and extortionately expensive.
Pete St John predicted this nearly 40 yrs ago in his song The Rear Oul Times
Rared on songs and stories
Dublin City Council is a ghastly monstrosity that just ripped the heart and soul out of a beautiful part of our city. Those responsible should hang their heads in shame. Progress me ar$e!
Fiachra, buildings in the historic centre attract a bigger brown envelope maybe?
And after 50 years, still not one building built that’s cracked 300ft let alone 1000ft
To be fair, a lot of people have tried to build taller buildings. But over and over the same people object on the grounds that to have one tall building would “dominate the skyline” – a line of thinking that perpetuates itself endlessly
The skyline has not changed. The docklands had a great chances to build skyscrapers but the planners were too scared.
Welcome to Dublin a classic example of how brown envelopes have the city skyline.
Have changed…
And the phobia of high rise iconic buildings remains. The new Dublin in the docklands should have consisted of gleaming landmark skyscrapers to give the city something to look at, even draw tourists like many cities around the world. But still it’s remained pretty flat and boring.
Dublin with all its faults, still nest city ever, love it,
Dublin docklands is a soulesss mess made up of gee gaws and gob ons where small office buildings with self indulgent egotistcal architects seem to have acted at random and without reference to each other’s creations. The fact these buildings are owned almost exclusively by lawyers and consultants is probably the root cause of this calamity.
Having looked out over the city from the top of the Guinness storehouse I have to say Dublin is one ugly looking city.
Dublin is sadly full of ugly “brutalist” buildings like the central bank, Dublin corpo buildings, Hawkins house, Fitzwilton house, Agriculture house Kildare st, old Motor tax office, Phibsboro shopping centre, Bolands mills…
Along with all the new glass boxes going up..
Must be a lot of Culchie’s in the planning board and government ministers from Mayo etc and the likes who allowed Dublin to be destroyed like this!
Bolands mill is not Brutalist architecture ( 1980′s)!
It was built over centuries (1840-1960′s) and was claimed by DeValera for the Irish Republic in the 1916 rising. It is a fascinating series of buildings, even the 2 silos to which I assume that you are referring to as brutalist?
Yes, the massive silo building is a Brutalist design…
The new Exo building makes my heart sink. A lump of glass, nothing more. A two year old with crayons could up more character. Let’s have a national children’s “design a building competition” the results surely would be far more imaginative than the disasters so far…. Let the best kid win.
I wonder if we could get the lad that did the Pillar to redeem himself by getting rid of a few of these disgusting buildings?
This city has the planning mentality of a European town, not a bit of high rise or decent joined up planning by the different agencies. Central Park down near Leopardstown is one of the only decent office/residential complexes in the city.
Patrick Dunnes Hospital in the old photo takes me back a bit
And one man who had hopes of a development along bachelor’s Quay area, at a time when the country was on it’s knees and they bullied threatened extorted him. RIP Tom Gilmartin
It’s because all the jobs are filled by the least qualified people (i,e the political appointees) ,theres a whole hierarchy of people that continue to get the best jobs , backhanders and brown envelopes were always the run of business. This country would the best country in the world if we actually had people of ability,creativity and ethics run this country.
Unfortunately a good proportion of the Irish people with the most ability, creativity and ethics end up leaving this country – as you said, most of them are forced out through a lack of opportunity.
With sea levels rising, why is no one getting prepared for this, in under 90 years Dublin could be under the waves?
That’s what makes Dublin unique, and tourists love it that it’s not full of skyscrapers like every other city but it would have saved alot of urban sprawl if we built up instead of down.
The 1970s was the real start of the brown envelope incentive to planning authorities…ahem
The Troika will ransack Ireland’s assets like they did with Rome once and that they might again???
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