jane
Well-Known Member
This is a thread for talking about buildings that upset you.
I'm mainly pissed off by how older buildings are being used, and that no effort is being made to turn stuff into places that are not posh apartments (if they were well-built, then I wouldn't mind so much, but they're going to fall down and then the building will be REALLY ruined) or offices.
I get sad every time I go by the Gasworks on South Lotts Road in Ringsend. I love that structure, and it's now full of yuppies that don't know what they've got. They just like it 'cause it gives it a sort of 'downtown' feel or summat.
I'm also upset about the flour mills on Ringsend Road. They haven't started doing anything with it, but I think we can all agree that whatever they do with it is going to be SHIT.
But I'm most concerned about what's going to be done with the concentration of my favourite buildings in the city:
http://www.mglarc.com/projects/spencer.htm
The Wool Store is my very favourite, and it's all surrounded by hoardings now, and you can't see what they're doing to it and that upsets me. I don't mind buildings being changed around, but I just wish it weren't all in honour of an economic dream that's about to end. It's like the way when you're a kid, you don't really respect stuff like family heirlooms, and you grow up and you wish you'd kept everything in better nick because you want it to last.
HOWEVER, I really like what's been done with a few of the buildings in the IFSC. I like the interior of the Excise bar, the new Ely down there. I like the way they've incorporated and highlighted the older elements without making them seem twee.
I'm mainly pissed off by how older buildings are being used, and that no effort is being made to turn stuff into places that are not posh apartments (if they were well-built, then I wouldn't mind so much, but they're going to fall down and then the building will be REALLY ruined) or offices.
I get sad every time I go by the Gasworks on South Lotts Road in Ringsend. I love that structure, and it's now full of yuppies that don't know what they've got. They just like it 'cause it gives it a sort of 'downtown' feel or summat.
I'm also upset about the flour mills on Ringsend Road. They haven't started doing anything with it, but I think we can all agree that whatever they do with it is going to be SHIT.
But I'm most concerned about what's going to be done with the concentration of my favourite buildings in the city:
http://www.mglarc.com/projects/spencer.htm
The Wool Store is my very favourite, and it's all surrounded by hoardings now, and you can't see what they're doing to it and that upsets me. I don't mind buildings being changed around, but I just wish it weren't all in honour of an economic dream that's about to end. It's like the way when you're a kid, you don't really respect stuff like family heirlooms, and you grow up and you wish you'd kept everything in better nick because you want it to last.
HOWEVER, I really like what's been done with a few of the buildings in the IFSC. I like the interior of the Excise bar, the new Ely down there. I like the way they've incorporated and highlighted the older elements without making them seem twee.