Invasive Surgery

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The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2.

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25 thoughts on “Invasive Surgery”

  2. Zaccone

    Hideous. Could they not at least try to make it blend into its Georgian surroundings like the new ESB HQ?

  3. Broadbag

    Grim, it’s a college for surgeons, why do they need such an ostentatious building, pure ego from the board!

  4. SOQ

    Well that compliments its surroundings alright- Dubai not Dublin of course.

    Is there some sort of law that across the island all council planning departments must have a brown envelope system in place?

    1. Johnny

      ….what is sarcastic?
      Hint-the tweet.
      What do you know about planning now and no it’s not the 1980’s.

    2. V aka Frilly Keane

      ‘Surgeons has the same intake from the CAO system as UCD and UCC
      and probably more as they offer a 6 yr course as well as the 5

      By expanding and developing their site, they have far more enrolment capacity
      So have been able to sell more spaces to applicants willing to pay fees without State Credit for undergrads, and to non EU
      and to Irish Post Grad (and they are actually cheaper than UCD’s fees for postgrad entrants)

      It gets to do way more research, and enhance the learning experience and their labs with this income

      there’s no need for the snide
      They actually do educate

      1. johnny

        (i don’t think he even knows what or where the college of surgeons is or does,never mind the student body,but what’s with the awfully distasteful “Dubai” jibe)

    1. Col

      I kind of agree. Would like to see more plants or trees to brighten the place up, but this isn’t terrible.

    2. Termagant

      It’s like the rural broadband scheme though
      Just because it’s A solution, doesn’t mean it’s a GOOD solution

  7. Gavin

    Way better than what was there…this idea that we should make modern buildings look like old building makes little sense, they should be sensitive to what’s gone before but they need to also take into account that times change and things move forward, we don’t need Disneyesque type replicas. Saying that, I’m not sure what they are proposing is very sensitive to what went before

  8. freewheeling

    Did they use an architect that designs hospital wings? Blends right into the heart of georgian Dublin.

    1. VTM

      Buildings built in 2022 are not supposed to blend in with stuff built centuries before it. It should be sympathetic to the surroundings though, and I think this is.

  9. The Dude

    A poor decision there, in my view.

    Would be interesting to know why the existing structure needs to be demolished, given its only there 4 decades.

    A lot of embodied energy present; destruction and new build is a significant climate impact, with 1 tonne of C02 released for every tonne of concrete created.

    Seems remarkable for a building that appeared structurally sound – and while no eye-catcher, was nonetheless suitable height and scale to the surroundings.

    Being four floors over hall floor, the existing scheme is not low density.

    It is a concern that this decision may set a precedent for other buildings of that age elsewhere on Stephen’s Green, which could result in gaps opening up, if or when the economy tanks again.

  10. Gavin

    There are only 2 or 3 original buildings left on that side of the green and the new lot is pretty awful, as The Dude said It is a concern that this decision may set a precedent for other buildings…precedent has probably already been set though…DCC is pretty awful when it comes to managing what gets built, they seem happy to accept anything as long as it comes under the heading progress.

  11. Paulus

    For those students with maximum points
    Whom the CAO chance to anoint;
    This is where in the future
    They’ll teach you to suture
    If your brains aren’t addled by joints!

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