Re-Development of The Clarence Hotel

[fergalr]

Everytime I click my fingers, a listed building is torn down.

[borntorum]

Everytime I click my fingers, a listed building is torn down.

Bravo

[CookieMonster]

Ah FFS!

[McDave]

U2 got to raise the roof level of the Clarence in their original redevelopment out of proportion to the other buildings on the quay. This latest proposal is even more of an imposition. More of an obsolescent egotistical architectural statement than a sustainable building to be admired in the future. Christ, haven't the city quays been roughed up enough by the likes of the Zoe Developments Bachelors Walk Soviet scale apartment block, the Civic Offices bunkers and our very own overbearing Calatrava bridge ego trip.

[cllr]

As a matter of interest this application is the only one that I can remember on which the South East Area Committee of the Council unaminously recommended that Permission be Granted.

[joemomma]

As a matter of interest this application is the only one that I can remember on which the South East Area Committee of the Council unaminously recommended that Permission be Granted.

More starstruck muppets. You'll regret this one in time Dermot, I'm sure of it.

The big question now is does this decision roll back the hard-won defences against facadism? Is it a license for every vandal with a bit of money and a big name architect to secure permission to demolish all but the barest skin of Dublin's heritage?

[alonso]

from an enraged archiseek poster - sums it up perfectly

All I can express is disgust. Revulsion at a pathetic decision for a PATHETIC proposal that smacks of the minnowism that permeates so many decisions that have emerged lately for specific projects in our city centre.
Any of you "big and shiny = progress" boosters check my record on here. I am not anti -new development once the context and function is correct but this is something I take as a personal affront. I suppose arrogant middle ranking career-Brits built the quays in the first place but to piss away what is ,by accident or design ,a unique urban set piece in global terms (ie the quays between Hueston and Butt bridge) is an exercise in extreme folly. Even the most deluded speculator -led illegal demolition on the D7 quays hasl not done as much psychologial damage as what we are about to have inflicted upon us.
If the Clarence wasn't viable on its preferred busines model by Not Us Ltd they should have ************************************ off elsewhere downstream and built their own shangri-la. God knows there's enough areas of the Liffey waterfront still in need of some masturbatory legacy project we can all guffaw at in years to come for its sheer audacity.

Come back SUAS ,all is forgiven! sure we'll need a ride down to anthony gormley's slashman when the time comes.

I'm at a loss to think of even a middle ranking English provincial ************************hole that would put up with such an awful proposal.