I suppose this is more your style?

https://twitter.com/real_idiocracy/stat ... 6fb2372f36

Each to their own.

If you want a remaining example of a poor office building of the era, look no further than the Irish Life centre on Abbey Strret/Beresford place complete with moat.

And? The buildings are hideous.

The name of the builder won't make them not hideous.

That the JP Morgan building?

I don't mind it. Its not like its liberty hall or something.

I bet you two pints in Crowes Bordies prefer the Irish Life Centre

I don’t see them as hideous. You’ve been very selective on the renders there. They are pretty standard of what is going up in London and major US cities.

The builder is important as like with Capital Dock, they can cheap out. Kennedy Wilson are known for that.

Trends in architecture don't dictate good taste,

Liberty Hall, Apollo House, Hawkins House were all of a time with their contempratories in London too and it makes them no less hideous.

There is no selectiveness about it, those are the renders they themselves have chose. Nor it is exclusively a render problem. The symmetry and pacing of the windows is also shit.

Look at all the cyclists in those renders mullet

And when myself and Brock say Render we mean the external finish of the building not the image type of render.

Is that not the cladding

Again it's completely disingenuous to pick a street level cafe shot and one of the only building I said looks fine.

You're deliberately avoiding the point.


That's for you Brock. Cam would believe the OLD ESB HQ was great if some prick in the Irish times told him it won a design award.

Look at all the cyclists in those renders mullet

I'm not. You are picking a shot that compares existing street scapes (including damp footpaths) to a far away render. Ballymore's efforts have all been to a high quality finish, the results here and elsewhere show that.

You have though, I don't see the issue with this;




This is the kind of finish on London City Island, which is similar (but far more colourful, which is ain't) and Ballymore;



Dublin Landings looks great. I'd have a lot of faith in Ballymore. What would you like, the kind of stuff at Sir John Rogerson's Quay?

Why is that fker cycling in a pedestrian zone?

It’s okay he works for Google

That Irish Life building isn't the nicest looking, but at least it's got some more interesting lines than Liberty Hall. Not sure about the sepia tinged reflective windows.

I've often wondered about that moat while waiting for a bus along there. What's the thinking behind it? Keep the plebs out but call it a "feature"?

I see Pa Whelan son has bought Kieleys

And the bike is actually powered by his own smug sense of self-satisfaction

Interesting. Can’t ever see it making the money it used to make but you never know

am sure he will knock it and start again maybe keep the licence

Very valuable site. The pub building doesn’t work - way too big.

Nine of the 16 migrants found in the back of a truck trailer on a ferry sailing to Ireland midweek are now unaccounted for.

Nine of the adult males in the group had left their accommodation by Friday night and their whereabouts were unknown this weekend.

The group were found in the back of a trailer being towed by an Irish-owned lorry on the Cherbourg-Rosslare sailing that departed France on Wednesday night and arrived in Co Wexford on Thursday afternoon......

......Garda sources told The Irish Times the 15 men and one minor believed the trailer they got into in France, likely close to Cherbourg, was being towed by a truck destined for Britain, not Ireland.

The same sources said as Britain was their intended destination it was now strongly suspected the nine men unaccounted for had left their accommodation with a view to going to the UK.

That could involve stowing away on a second ferry from the Republic or the North bound for Britain or they may seek to travel into the North in a bid to claim asylum there.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/dublin-shop-seeks-permission-to-erect-shutters-to-stop-homeless-sleeping-in-doorway-1.4093414?mode=amp

This type of shit is why I have moved from the supposed left. So it is not McVerry's responsibility with his reserves. It is the shop owner with piss all over his doorway waking up scagged out users. The McVerry Trust went from having 13 million in reserves in 2017 to 24 million in 2018. What are they doing with that war chest. Fück all is the answer. And the other homeless charities are also building up lovely reserves though none as bad as McVerry. He is an utter charlatan and a brilliant example of how some people are too big to be questioned

It would be of more benefit to all if business leaders could engage with the homeless agencies and the city council with a view to enhancing the dignity and the life experience of those who use their doorways rather than engaging in this type of unsympathetic action.”