The new St Teresa’s Gardens complex in Dublin 8
Stephen Coyne writes:
Railings as far as the eye can see.
The Liberties newest street is a ‘road’ – Margaret Kennedy Road, fronting onto what will be a regenerated St Teresa’s Gardens. 54 new social housing units.
But why not a ‘street’? Why not city centre character?
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”Why not city centre character?” Don’t worry, give them a few weeks and it will be wrecked and full of ”character”.
I hate that salt leaking red brick
yep….it’s usually evidence of more crappy modern building practices
it’s called efflorescence
caused by prolonged wet seeping through the brick, the water dissolves salts inside the brick while moving through it and when it evaporates it deposits the scum of salt on the surface. gross.
funnily people think brick is a barrier, it’s actually the opposite, it’s a sponge and on a lot of these recent modern buildings it’s used as a decorative cladding almost, a skin, as opposed to being an intrinsic structural component but the builders forget the sealant or there’s a lack of properly implemented cappings, flashings or sometimes it’s bad design
janey mac, it’s all damp problems today!
It’s Dublin 8 and there are already plenty of residential roads in the area
A road connects two points (anything can be a road) – streets are public ways which have buildings on either side.
If they take a leaf, or several thousand leaves, from the pedestrianisation of streets in the neighbourhoods of Barcelona, the future residents of St. Teresa’s Gardens/Boulevard/Terrasse might lead leisurely cafe society lives suited to all age groups – minus Barcelona’s overwhelming midsummer heat.
https://suitelife.com/blog/barcelona-real-estate/pedestrian-friendly-superblocks-of-barcelona/
Tis a fine prison
Ok everyone else go home, you win the internet today
Ha ha! It does actually look like a prison. I know its not finished though.
Did Irish architects get to play with Lego as children? If so, it must have been a very limited box, only red bricks and windows in there.