for the future.....

[quinner]

are modern buildings better for the future.......?

[Hagar]

Weren't the buildings we now regard as classic once the modern buildings of their time?

[Mykidsmom]

yes......id say to hagar...i hope our newer buildings will withstand the test of time....and we'll have left some interesting looking buildings to the future

[quinner]

Weren't the buildings we now regard as classic once the modern buildings of their time?

yes Hagar...but, times and needs change......

take fire regulations as an example.........would you rather, new or old.....

[Hagar]

Fare thee well sweet Anna Liffey, I can no longer stay
& watch the new glass cages, that spring up along the quay
My mind's too full of memories, too old to hear new chimes
I'm part of what was Dublin in the rare ould times

I prefer the older style buildings tbh. Although I acknowledge the apparent need for progress it often leaves me cold.
Buildings like the Civic Offices on Wood Quay are a crime against the people of Dublin. If I were to apply for planning permission for a dormer window it would be turned down as being discordant, unsightly and not in keeping with the surroundings yet the same planning department allowed that monstrosity beside an 11th Century archictectural masterpiece. How they got away with it is a disgrace. Someone should have been put behind bars for that.

[quinner]

I prefer the older style buildings tbh. Although I acknowledge the apparent need for progress it often leaves me cold.
Buildings like the Civic Offices on Wood Quay are a crime against the people of Dublin. If I were to apply for planning permission for a dormer window it would be turned down as being discordant, unsightly and not in keeping with the surroundings yet the same planning department allowed that monstrosity beside an 11th Century archictectural masterpiece. How they got away with it is a disgrace. Someone should have been put behind bars for that.

lol......you don't like that then.......

I don't know about irish planning laws.......

if I wanted to put a dormer window in in the uk (and it was for another bedroom for the needs of my family) they could not refuse........

is that new wood quay building more efficient...??

[Hagar]

Nah, none of the fuckers in there do a tap.

[quinner]

Nah, none of the fuckers in there do a tap.

lol, are you being a bit unfair......

usually, what is not seen to be done...is assumed not to have been done.....


as an very infrequent visitor to Dublin.....what i have seen there, I describe as progress......

[cogito]

is that new wood quay building more efficient...??

Nah, none of the fuckers in there do a tap.

Now I remember why dublin.ie banned you for life...

[quinner]

Now I remember why dublin.ie banned you for life...

lol......not me.......I banned myself.......(though I did try to get banned).....

[bigby]

I do not have any great hope for the future of buildings, out planners have allowed apartments to be built that are fire hazards, and we have houses cracking at the seams from pyrite, very ugly buildings at the cost of losing some very beautiful buildings

I am not a lover of glass and steel or concrete bunkers

[quinner]

I do not have any great hope for the future of buildings, out planners have allowed apartments to be built that are fire hazards, and we have houses cracking at the seams from pyrite, very ugly buildings at the cost of losing some very beautiful buildings

I am not a lover of glass and steel or concrete bunkers

fire hazards.....?

surely they would not get passed.......or even insured.....

[bigby]

have you heard of Priory Hall?

[quinner]

have you heard of Priory Hall?

just a little........

is that not an isolated case....?

[bigby]

imo it is not, we just have not heard the rest of them yet