Before
After
This is the monstrosity that has replaced our much loved venue on Andrews Lane.
Decades of the arts and theatre, dance, joy, happiness, youth and night time culture, not to mention a million friendships.
For what, a giant brick 🧱 pic.twitter.com/tbJooErEpB
— HangarDublin (@HangarDublin) August 6, 2020
Thud.
Previously: All The Clubs Have Been Knocked Down
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…brutal…
With their tanks and their guns and their guns and their guns in your head in your head etc
well that will age well…eye roll
There may be a point to make about the use of the buildings but the new building is a far better piece fo architecture concrete block that was there before.
What do people want? Mock tudor buildings? Replicas of 19th century designs? What?
Not saying it’s pretty
But it definitely looks more useful
something a little more attractive ?
it’s very 70’s esque
It really isn’t very 70s at all. Brick wasn’t very commonly used for a building like this in the 70s. “Something else” isn’t an answer.
pull your pants out of your crack would you, it the rounded “openings” on the bottom that made me think of the 70’s ,
I can’t be bothered reposting links here to some nice Nordic architecture for example in Helsinki that I think would be a nice way to go in Dublin, similar light etc, except we get big dark lumps.
How many minutes did some architects kid take to come up with this horror?
Architects don’t design buildings anymore- accountants do.
It is all about cost and the cheaper the better.
First I heard (@_@)
I would have thought Planners have more of a say about what get built tbh
Planners have no clue or care. They’re only good at covering their arse by ticking the boxes set out for them.
name one hotel built in dublin over the last few years that actually looks really good. they’re all horrible celtic tiger era throwbacks. The city is being visually stripped of its unique vintage aesthetics, for tourists, who want the unique vintage aesthetics. It’s so mind numbingly short sited. The council and whatever architects involved have gone about destroying Dublin. It’s Dublins biggest test, to try and sruvie these creative-free greedy pigs
The wren hotel
http://www.bdp.com/en/projects/p-z/wren-hotel/
incorrect. is bad. is not as good as old Dublin architecture. No surprise a no-vision FGer would look at that nonsense and think it looks well. Complete celtic tiger throwback.
I like it
It’s a bit sad.
it cheered me up
Me too.
The building that was there before, on the other hand, looked awful – people actually getting nostalgic over a fugly-coloured square box with a corrugated roof…
The only improvement that I could suggest would be that it were a few stories higher
i wish you were a few stories higher. on the ledge. with me behind you.
primum non nocere
I quite like it, no matter what was put there the fans of the old venue were going to hate it. The ‘before’ is fairly bloody ugly to be fair.
I don’t see the problem here? Nothing remarkable or significant about the actual building that preceded it.
This is entirely subjective.
Is it not just a case of choosing a bad photographic angle, like all my selfies, or at least that’s my excuse.
A bad photo of an unfinished building.
yeah, it’s a photo of the back of the building
All hail The Brick!
Heard he’s playing a blinder for his club
And his Championship appearance record seems it will live on for another bit longer
In fairness
This is what the front of building will actually look like:
http://www.bdp.com/en/projects/p-z/wren-hotel/
I’m not delighted to have yet another hotel but this is a pretty nice looking building:
if nothing else, a compact, budget hotel in the city centre will help to kill demand for Airbnb apartments – returning them to housing market
the front is much more attractive
its often the case
140 compact rooms. Does that mean that it’s styled on a Boutique Co-living building then?
it means you shimmy around the bed
Check out what they call an “urban nest”. That might even be considered tight for Tokyo!
https://www.wrenhotel.ie/
€189 weekend rate- for THAT?
Jeebes. That would be some room to even try service.
It’s an improvement on what was there before but would like to see it up close and personal.
1. the old building was horrific.
2. it is surrounded by other really awful buildings – the nicest is a car-park.
3. This can only be viewed either down a narrow lane – one lane with no footpaths – (so you can’t really see the building) or from the view above.
I could have helped them out with Lego. It would have looked better. Jesus!
Meanwhile in Belfast
https://www.google.com/maps/place/King+Street+Arts/@54.5987201,-5.9331088,3a,30y,90.03h,92.34t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sb6e_IkEKLdywekYXBq898g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x486108577237eb05:0xf25ff29f087498d7!2sCastle+St,+Belfast,+UK!3b1!8m2!3d54.599205!4d-5.9330295!3m4!1s0x486108577ddf6f83:0xddca1dd757300b55!8m2!3d54.5989147!4d-5.934667
Define Secure?
Sounds more like nimbyism to me. The prior building is nothing to look at, though having never been inside I can’t comment on what may have been lost in terms of culture. Why is there yet another hotel? Couldn’t somebody be throwing up apartments the same way they’re doing with offices, hotels, and student accommodation?
Perfect for a big colorful mural.
Deliberately brootal taken photo of the back to stir the merda.