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[From top: The Save The Streets of Portobello campaign members; Gold medalist special Olympian Sarah Carroll and Pauline Atkinson and Kevin Humphreys]

A protest by members of the ‘Save The Streets Of Portobello’ campaign outside Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin yesterday afternoon. An Bord Pleanala have granted The Irish Jewish Museum permission to demolish the existing museum and 3 adjoing houses located on Walworth Road and Kingsland Parade and to build a new museum in their place.

A petition comprising 188 signatures was received by Kevin Humphreys, Labour TD for the area.

Nice.

Previously: Welcoming The Irish Jewish Museum Expansion

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

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A conceptual vertical train hub by UK designers Christopher Christophi and Lucas Mazarrasa which received an honourable mention in eVolo magazine’s skyscraper design competition.

The design – envisaged for a world 60 years hence where the need for high speed transit vies with the limitations of urban space –  flips the horizontal layout of a rail terminal on its end to create a cylindrical mass into which trains arrive hovering above magnetic rails then pivot in the style of ferris wheel carriages as they ascend to platforms within the tower.

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