Kevin Street Garda Station is on Bride Street. It’s a huge new office block and it’s horrenjus.
Things I learned today: where the Adelaide Hospital was.
Part and parcel of the Schaechterle Plan
Mad ideas in there included making the canals Dual Carriageways. There were 80 road widening schemes planned for Dublin within the canals.
Much of it never implemented because the country didn’t have a pot to piss in but Dublin Corporation pursed elements with vigour. They took over and bulldozed quite a bit of Dublin in preparation for some of these projects (Parnell Street an example).
In fairness some revisionist history on some of this stuff as that was what was thought as forward thinking at the time. Many of the areas targeted had been slums for over a century at the time, Golden Lane off Bride Street is where famously Prince Edward met the poor of Dublin in between his visits to the Monto.
It’s just a shame that much of Viking Dublin onwards was destroyed, including Wood Quay. Bride Street is a particularly egregious example of what they did.
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Lunatics.
The bottom picture is what was planned for ther Patrick Street/Kevin Street/Clanbrassil Street/Coombe junction.
These schemes ripped the hearts out of so many UK cities.
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There was some amount of savage, almost debauched planning in those days raw, brutal stuff, all designed so the car could ride roughshod over the city. Thank God some if it never came to pass. But the bits that did get built still stand there today, those hideous concrete monuments to the worship of the motor, ugly little orifices grafted onto the city in service of the cathedral of the car.
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In fairness, that was the thinking of the time globally.
There is always talk of the likes of the destruction of Wood Quay but one that is often ignored is Kildare Place.
The below (one colourised image by Rob Cross) replaced by Agricultural House by the government of the day obsessed with modernity.
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Never even knew that. Jesus another dusgrace. My rageometre is seeting at the moment
Wow.
Some building. That’s absolutely criminal.
The old photos of the buildings in Limerick that were knocked are galling.
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Some day there’ll be a thread on all the beautiful 1960s Brutalism/modernist style buildings that were scandalously knocked down in the 2000’s
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Brutalism has its place, although that place is not most places.
But I liked this. Fitzwilton House. I also like the Poolbeg chimneys and the Dublin Airport ramps and Dublin Airport Terminal 1 in a general sense.
The dust will be still rising from the spot where Sarsfield House was and fellas will be lamenting its lost beauty.
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Brutalism revival underway
This is what happened in Birmingham city centre.
I was in a similar spot that day. Lloyds by the train station with @Fat_Pox. We were offered 5kgs of cheddar cheese at one point. Pox annoyed one of the cork men with us by saying they’d be hammered.
And Glasgow and Manchester and Belfast and Derby and countless other places.
I couldn’t believe the main road going through the middle of Leeds when I drove through it years ago. Although a quick google tells me a lot of it is a tunnel now.
There is a better shop 100 yards closer to the river called Mullets. Big Ra pub. Bring cash. You’ll have junkies coming selling all sorts at cut prices after fleecing supermarkets on Talbot st.
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Pox again proving he knows his hurling
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Pox knows his onions.
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