Little help from our Dublin friends: I am a professor of architecture in the US… my students have been analyzing Dublin in an early design studio… so they have located the city center of Dublin… so what I ask of any Dubliners out there… from my travels and fading memories… I need a somewhat vacant “site” i.e. gap between buildings suitable for a new one along the Liffey.
Please if driving home you chance across such a place (it seems from my recollection and on-line research to be rather densely built up) please let me know via PM or email…
Slan
PS I am a piper… and the subject matter of the project they are hypothetically taking on is a music center… so the topic is musical… I will share with any interested the results.
The Docklands area down towards the mouth of the Liffey is where most of the current building boom is taking place now, and the idea of moving Dublin Port to Balbriggan has just been mooted to allow for even more development.
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said he is “broadly supportive” of plans to relocate Dublin port and to intensively develop the waterfront area as a Manhattan-style gateway to the capital.
A plan put forward by Progressive Democrats Transport spokesman Tom Morrissey envisages the transfer of existing Dublin port activities to Bremore, north of Balbriggan, over a 25- year period.
Dublin port would gradually be redeveloped to include skyscrapers capable of supporting a population of more than 50,000 people .
The proposals also provide for the creation of a “world-class” terminal for cruise liners. The plan sees the Dublin Port Tunnel as an integral part of the redevelopment to accommodate the proposed expansion.
According to Senator Morrissey, land prices of €30 million per acre could be achieved for most of the port holding which runs to 660 acres. The sale of land could release between €15 billion and €20 billion to fund infrastructure in the vicinity of the new port at Bremore.
A plan put forward by Progressive Democrats Transport spokesman Tom Morrissey envisages the transfer of existing Dublin port activities to Bremore, north of Balbriggan, over a 25- year period.
Dublin port would gradually be redeveloped to include skyscrapers capable of supporting a population of more than 50,000 people .
I hope they plan on putting those new buildings on stilts, given that most of the area will be underwater in another 50 years or so: http://flood.firetree.net/
Hiya Toto-John, good seeing you at Hugh’s in July. That’s a genial session you’ve got there. Give us a shout if you ever make it back to Utah.
The door is always open for you at Hughes’s. I’d love to visit you guys again: can’'t forsee it on the horizon, unfortunately. Maybe I can twist the boss’s arm . . . when there’s more snow . . .
