The Capital Dock this afternoon in Dublin’s Docklands is Ireland’s tallest building at 79 metres high with 22 storeys
This afternoon.
Further to proposals by Dublin City Council to increase building height limits which may allow 25 storeys or higher in the city…
…KN writes:
It looks like Johnny Ronan’s campaign is finally paying off. Never mind that we neither need them nor can build them properly, the skyscraper satisfies the property developer’s greed and insecurity around size.
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Monuments to Ronan’s little Johnny lying half empty because nobody will be able to afford to live in the poorly constructed shoeboxes anyway.
If they lay empty, the developer loses out. Its in their interest to have these things used.
Sure it is. https://www.newstalk.com/news/leaving-dublin-luxury-apartments-vacant-doesnt-break-competition-rules-review-finds-1188114
What wasnt built properly?
we dont need high rise builds? a few apartments wouldnt go amiss
A developer must surely be glad
That restrictions on height were a fad
to be dismissed on a whim
and may soon permit him
To compensate for the size of his lad.
Hehehehehehe
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Wow, 25 whole storys (rolls eyes) – we need to go up not out – end of.
No, we need to go nowhere and make living somewhere other than Dublin a more viable prospect. The city is big enough.
jesus that’s ugly
Yeah, that’s an ugly building but lopping off a few floors wouldn’t make it any prettier.
No
But bringing them all up to the same height might be less jarring to the eyeline
And the skyline
It already looks like they ran out of money
We don’t have nearly enough ‘housing’ in the city so building up rather than out makes logistical sense.
While Covid possibly hastened the death of office types all having to physically work in the one place together we’re still looking at years before that may result in significant decentralisation.
Personally, I’m not a fan of Dublin ending up looking like Mega City One but then I’m not a 20 something facing the prospect of never being able to own my own place.
Good, long overdue. I look forward to a string of virtue signalers on Twitter moaning on about the loss of some decrepit abandoned building or their ”favourite pub” they walked by once but never spent any money in, their next post inevitably about how they’d love to live in the city but can’t find anywhere…
All the build high people are always men. Over compensating for something I think.
There is not a shortage of land for building medium density apartment buidlings
Theres a massive shortage of land within walking distance of the city center. Any development between the canals should be at least 10 story high, high density developments.
Capital Dock is not the tallest building in Ireland, the nordies have 2 buildings that are taller, that why we have to build a taller one, because we can’t have the nordies waving their mickeys at us
That’s a different country. That name of this country is Ireland (Airt.4 Bunreacht na hÉireann) and up there is Northern Ireland.
No expert in this area, but I have read that with proper density, then 5 storeys or so is perfectly sufficient for almost any level of population in any comparably sized city (https://wrathofgnon.substack.com/p/the-human-scale ) These all look like wonderful places to work and live. A lot of Northern European cities are like this.
However, I really am just posting to say “Great Headline Bodger” More of this please! happy Weekend.