Remember we were told 20 years ago that this is what Dublin 2025 would look like, and developers are still struggling to get planning for buildings over 15 stories. Would you like to see Dublin with taller buildings?

by Pupcup2

37 comments

  1. Nah, see all of those tall buildings are each getting in the way of the other tall buildings.

    Can’t be having it.

  2. No way. Why would you want to add high density housing at a time of acute housing scarcity

  3. Graphics are never gonna get any better than this

  5. I love the thousands of people living within smelling distance of the waste management infrastructure on Poolbeg.

  6. No, I love all the derelict 2 storey buildings in the city centre. That’s what Dublin needs, not those nice tall buildings you see in other capitals. 

  7. Could’ve invested €2 billion into taller buildings / apartment housing instead of a hospital.

  8. “We were told”… yeah, by the progressive democrats 😆

  9. Every response so far is “no” and “no, lol”. Feck sake.

    It should be done. There’s no need for Dublin’s port to be industrial. Industry should land at Waterford or something. Dublin is a bottleneck with traffic.

  11. We weren’t told that this was what Dublin would like. It was a proposal or really just more a notion, to move Dublin port, and redevelop the land. A proposal that was shot down pretty much immediately and never progressed to even the beginning stage.

  12. I have to say, as someone who lived in NA this sickens me. I lived in Vancouver and this is exactly what that city achieved. To the see the skyline of the city in the 80s vs now – one of the most iconic city skylines in the world, while maintaining a very “livable” city, focusing on transport links and parks. We had an opportunity to keep what historic buildings we had in the core, and the density there, while building a whole new city centre. Instead we have our major employers having to make compromises cause we can’t have anything over like 10 floors. Both sides of the docks are such a wasted opportunity. We have been shafted with conservatism, NIMBYISM, and self serving senior civil servants, politicians. If only we hired some Scandinavian/Dutch urban designers…

  14. Thank God. I’m actually done with two story houses as well, we need to mass build bungalows in the city center. I need to see the spire.

  16. No joke I thought this was a cities skylines screenshot

  17. Thank goodness it didn’t happen or we’d have lost Dublins iconic skyline forever /s

  18. Ironically the part they keep green and undeveloped in this visualisation looks like it might be around the Grand Canal Square, which was actually quite nicely developed.

  19. Looking better.

    Sorry to say, Dublin is one of the ugliest cities in Europe.

  20. This was never a plan, it was mostly just an image to impress simpletons, which apparently it is still doing in 2025.

  21. 2025 is not over …there’s still a chance ..
    😃

  22. I’d love a city where first and foremost community and people were allowed to thrive. If we don’t value that and just focus on big shined buildings we will end up like London – and anyone that has been in the centre of that in the last decade will know it’s a place devoid of actual life after a certain hour. This is not an anti-development argument, it’s an argument for the right kind of development.

  23. Crappy graphics aside, I don’t like it. They need to sort out the social problems, the drugs and family amenities. Start there before considering anything high rise or you’re just creating a new class A fueled ghetto of tenements.

    High density works well for bachelor pads and so on without amenities but if you want to encourage families to choose them (rather than settle for them) over a regular 3 bed semi, you gotta do a LOT better.

    Just because we’re in a housing crisis doesn’t mean people should be forced to live in substandard flats which they’ll grow to resent when there’s another recession and they’re stuck there and needing to trade up for more space.

  25. Bahahaha…the one area nobody goes, never has or will have this view and unless it’s Octoberfest or a “fish” week, it’s of no interest to anyone. I’m guessing where Talbot st is and the rest of that area let alone the other side…but one thing ya don’t do in “2025’s future Dublin” is look up in distraction 😆

  28. The PDs couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery. A more useless and malignant shower this country hasn’t seen since.

  29. There was going to be an Opera House? They forgot the Harbour Bridge.

  30. Dublin absolutely needs high rise. And instead of reducing the minimum apartment size, increase it along with the height restrictions. Make city centre family condos a thing. Make it so raising a family in a city centre location is desirable.

    130sq metre plus duplexes etc would be a fantastic option instead of sprawling estates of in suburbia lacking the facilities to match.

  31. “Progressive Democrats.” Now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.

  32. FFG saw this and thought “this won’t be built overnight, or ever”

  35. I don’t think it’s controversial to say Dublin needs to build higher than it currently is. How high exactly is the debate.

    If there was even an increase in the average height to 6 stories, that would be a big improvement. Skyscrapers might have a place, but it has to be carefully thought out. The basic infrastructure in the area needs to be able to handle it first (water, sewerage, electricity, public transport, etc).

  36. There’s still four months left in 2025 so you’d never know.

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