Old B&W Photos Of Dublin - Part 1

[bigby]

I really like the bits that were left behind in the garden

[Martinb]

Dame again

This is one of the buildings ripped down for that bank , this was on the corner of Dame and Fownes Street

[quinner]

This is one of the buildings ripped down for that bank , this was on the corner of Dame and Fownes Street

expensive to maintain......no wheelchair access.....had to go....

[bigby]

such a crime, imagine if it happened in Paris

[quinner]

such a crime, imagine if it happened in Paris

it did......they knocked down some wonderful buildings to get what the have now.....

[bigby]

such a crime, imagine if it happened in Paris

[quinner]

such a crime, imagine if it happened in Paris

it did, to build what they have now.....

[DAMNTHEWEATHER]

I really like the bits that were left behind in the garden

Yes, those bits are acceptable.

[DAMNTHEWEATHER]

This is one of the buildings ripped down for that bank , this was on the corner of Dame and Fownes Street

It's a beaut...Royal Insurance 1869.....Italianate palazzo by William G. Murray. Finished in Portland stone, the building was elaborately carved. Demolished when the area was cleared for the construction of Stephenson’s Central Bank.

[quinner]

It's a beaut...Royal Insurance 1869.....Italianate palazzo by William G. Murray. Finished in Portland stone, the building was elaborately carved. Demolished when the area was cleared for the construction of Stephenson’s Central Bank.

the problems with old buildings is...they cannot fit ''computer flooring''......or divide space to suit the user....

[bigby]

they did it in the Bank of Ireland O'Connell Street

[quinner]

they did it in the Bank of Ireland O'Connell Street

bigby..I am referring to the cost.......

especially high buildings......to move the lift thresholds up...is an enormous cost...

[DAMNTHEWEATHER]

the problems with old buildings is...they cannot fit ''computer flooring''......or divide space to suit the user....

No Joe...That's an old nonsense excuse....raised flooring does the trick, and partitioning is not difficult, even an arch in a wall is not beyond the bounds. Those buildings should be preserved at all costs. Even the facade retention idea is more acceptable than demolition. There's really no excuse. As for that Stephenson eyesore,.....it should have been fecked out in the sticks.

[quinner]

No Joe...That's an old nonsense excuse....raised flooring does the trick, and partitioning is not difficult, even an arch in a wall is not beyond the bounds. Those buildings should be preserved at all costs. Even the facade retention idea is more acceptable than demolition. There's really no excuse. As for that Stephenson eyesore,.....it should have been fecked out in the sticks.

dtw.....not my words.....just a conversation I had a few years ago with an architect.....

of course a couple of million for lift shaft and lift alterations...seems a lot to me.....

[DAMNTHEWEATHER]

bigby..I am referring to the cost.......

especially high buildings......to move the lift thresholds up...is an enormous cost...

What you on there today Joe ?...Most older buildings have high ceilings....you're not lifting anything of structure up....ye cover it over, create a void, to facilitate yer ducts and cables.