This afternoon.
Dolphin House, Dolphin’s Barn, Dublin 8.
Darren Craig writes:
The flats at Dolphins Barn are coming down. So many “feature walls” destroyed
Mmf.
Previously: Dublin’s Dolphgin Barn Flats To Get €16 million Retrofit (IrishTimes)
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Yay!
Woo hoo!
Result!
Couldn’t these be refurbished for social housing?
Seems fairly wasteful alright.
I live in something really similar in London, most of the flats in my area are pretty similar to these.
New buildings don’t ‘fix’ a community.
My thoughts too. What’s happening to the land?
Redevelopment I think, is it not what they did in Ballymun? Move the people out, demolish, rebuild, move ’em back in?
At least they have a better chance of it being social housing, not luxury flats with a few “affordable” ones on the side (but different door of course, don’t want the poors touching us)
Yeah, but they broke up communities in the process. Lifelong friends and neighbours were separated and feel worse off and more isolated than before
They’re moving back into the new development aren’t they?
You can’t really demolish a building around a family going about their daily lives. Haven’t they been pushing for redevelopment themselves?
Hopefully. In Ballymun a lot of residents had no choice where they were re-housed. Their former communities were broken up.
And the lame put down. In retrospect the council might have gone too far.
In fairness I wouldn’t complain too loudly to the people building me a brand spanking new modern home! Flat/house typology might constrain who gets to live beside who. The family of six living beside the old lady on her own are unlikely to end up next door neighbours again in the new development. But this is a small site – I don’t think that’s a risk.
Lifelong friends, yeah. Dealers and punters more like.
Down off that horse. He’s too tall for you anyway.
I’m sure every man, woman and child in Ballymun is a drug dealer too. They probably are born with a criminal record.
Couldn’t you read the article?
+1
They will be.
They are knocking some of the blocks down and will build a variety of regular housing there.
Other blocks will be stripped back to the skeletal structure and built up to modern spec.
Where there are 6 dwellings on each landing, there will now be 4. So they will be huge.
Also, the ones facing the canal will have balconies added. So rather than facing a concrete fortress inside, they will face out to the canal, green space with a great view of the mountains.
Long overdue and delighted to see it.
Most people try to hide ignorance. Not you tho.
The sewage used to bubble up into the baths in that place.
Good , horrible horrible looking buildings , something more modern , energy and space efficient is sorely needed.
They are not horrible looking.
We do this in cycles – demolish, regret, demolish, regret – Dutch billies, Georgian Dublin, Victorian streetscapes – & still we don’t learn.
The energy-efficient is patently nonsense – once you take account of the embodied energy in demolishing & rebuilding, you’ll need a ridiculously long pay-back period.
Stringer and Avon will not be pleased.
Pooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
What was the story behind dolphin dreams bubble baby?
Dolphin Dreaming mural has been there for years.
Never particularly like it myself.
Yes but what is it all about?
From the times article they are not doing the same as in Ballymun i.e. they are not razing it to the ground and totally building new. They are knocking it back to the skeleton and “retrofitting” (rewiring, replumbing, insulating etc) and making the units more spacious.
Sounds good anyway
All for a raunchy calendar.
Must be one of those new retrofitting JCBs
They tried to modernise the Dolphin Barn complex 10 years ago, poorly executed, same social problems, just with double glazing.
Ugh. Double glazing + old knackered council flat = virulent black mould.
I had to chisel the crud off when I moved into my place >_<
Could they not salvage the newish double glazing? Could be used to replace broken ones in refurbished flats etc
Very unlikely to be the same shape arpetures and pretty much all corpo blocks are double glazed anyway
You can take the kn@cker out of Dolphins Barn, but he’ll still be a kn@cker… or something along those lines.
Dolphin House always had one big problem – from the days before it was built, when it was a tenement area known locally as The Hollah – extreme poverty. Better housing is good, but it could do with a really good school and a source of good jobs.