RTÉ Archives tweetz:
A view of the Central Bank, Dublin under construction in 1974 from the Ha’penny Bridge
including a an illegal ‘extra floor’ added on for the laugh.
Damn you Stephenson.
Damn you to HELL.
Good times.
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RTÉ Archives tweetz:
A view of the Central Bank, Dublin under construction in 1974 from the Ha’penny Bridge
including a an illegal ‘extra floor’ added on for the laugh.
Damn you Stephenson.
Damn you to HELL.
Good times.
Gah!
Give it back to the people in the form of a Central City Library and some forgiveness may be dispensed.
(Where are we with that campaign I wonder…)
We?
It should be turned into the multi-storey car park that it already resembles!!!!!
…still brutal Sam.
Get rid of that ugly brutal monstrosity that destroyed the scale, vista and street scape of Dame Street. It should never have been build there in the first place.
Just wait; I’m sure our cultural overlords An Taisce/Frank McDonald will deem this, because it’s somewhat old, to be inherently worthy of preservation.
If that be the case, let me be the first to prise open their jaws and s**t down their throats!
Or a view of it in 2016 when the folks on Dame Street move down to the old Anglo HQ shell.
It makes me all warm and fuzzy to remember a simpler time when the ha’penny bridge wasn’t covered with idiot’s padlocks
And its proper colour as well, black.
+1 Black and Gold.
racialist
Fitzwilliam Street, Dame Street, the Department of Agriculture buildings on Kildare Street… the 1970s ‘construction’ work in Dublin did more damage to the city in a decade than various Republican rebels and the British managed to do over 200 years.
Sam Stephenson: putting the “brutal” into Brutalism.
Then what happened next? The roof had to be lifted and a floor removed because it was too high. Who remembers that?
I thought they got to keep the extra floor, no?
If you’re interested… http://vimeo.com/53870696
Haven’t got to roof question yet :-)
The roof was not lowered as all the floors hung from it,they cased the girders in copper for a few years and then built the roof as intended.
Sadly they didn’t finish the job by removing the remaining floors below…..