This wouldn’t help with housing because they would only build them if a developer had already paid for them. Normal people wouldn’t be able to afford them, if they were even for sale.
Troy as we might
We can do that, €13bn and ready in 2031, not a bother
Should go back to the old ways of Building Societies. People club money together to build a group of houses/apartments for the members.
Agreed – 5 or 6 story apartments would be nice many places, and you’d get a lot of housing in a small footprint. High rises would be fine in a few defined places, parts of Dublin city center.
You have to find a way to dispossess all the people who buy one story cottages in stoneybatter and the like first.
We need a skyscraper. Up not out
Ireland is about the only country left that Irish people haven’t built proper multi-storeyed buildings in. It’s an absolute joke the way this countrys infrastructure has been allowed to rot with the amount of money flowing through it.
I object! It would take away from the ‘character’ of the area….
We don’t have the renting culture they have on the continent where traditionally most working class people expect to rent and take on properties long term. Here over the years renting was only for young people and poor people so Landlords treat tenants like they are beneath them and in return many tenants don’t respect their landlords or their property. It’s a vicious cycle of mutual disrespect which needs to be broken.
In France a lifetime tenancy with rent increases not allowed to exceed inflation and a cheap service contract is perfectly normal, can you imagine asking the average Dublin property developer to honour such terms?
Not on every street but in the right place would be a massive help. Lots of green areas along transport links. Not in my back yard would be the issue. Something different needs to be done because what’s happening currently is not working. Can’t rent and can’t buy
Some developer “Best we can do is some blocky student flats”
no chance😂
They managed to make sure it blends in *perfectly* with what was already there too. In fact it actually seems to tie it together better.
Where was this photo taken?
No problem you’ve got a 6.5m height restriction the roof has to be made out of photovoltaic solar panels and you need 6 parking spaces for every 2.8 cats in the building. Some lad used to keep cattle on that land 300yrs ago so the EPA and Archaeological department will have to dig down 30ft to see if there’s anything of significance to be found.
Everythings so clean, everyones young and well dressed and they got rid of those pesky traffic lights.
NIMBYs: “No.”
Load of social housing and half of it boarded up within a year.
Dublin is gonna look like an absolute shite hole in 40-60 years time when thousands of those identical, banal and ubiquitous post modern apartments begin to age. Tbh they look shite atm, even the new ones.
And yes, I know supply is a priority over aesthetics. But still.
And Somewhat related, can I add that the architecture of entire UCD campus is an affront to humanity and human decency. Whomever designed those buildings deserves a jail sentence. Compared to the old Trinity buildings in the city centre, its light and day.
Knocking buildings from the 1930s and replacing them with something higher than 3 stories. An Taisce would have a fit.
I really like this. I think yes if you’re going more stories go the European or even Parisian look. Not the shabby London look.
Construction and architecture and completely and utterly broken in Ireland
That building mimics traditional style which is the first reason it would never be built in Dublin. All modern development has to be some band rendered box that literally nobody finds appealing. Bonus points for bizarrely tiny windows
Architectural revival is very unpopular here for some reason. This post highlights what a shame that is.
I’ve said a million times, Ireland needs way more multi-story apartments and less houses.
Plenty of decaying towns and villages which should be leveled to the ground and redesigned to better reflect more vibrant and dynamic atmosphere.
Imagine trying to get planning for that here. The council would have a stroke.
Well unfortunately Dublin is full of people who want to live in a city but also have a decent sized back garden for themselves (and front garden). Also, if you’re building in an empty block of land for something like this? Don’t you dare block the locals view of absolutely nothing with your proposed 200 affordable housing.
But d’ skyline!!!
There’s a reason why I, amongst others, left the island. Grass is greener, yeah, but that greener grass in many ways works better.
I like this
But I *Prefer* this
Having a master plan that allows people to build small 4-5 story buildings in place of their homes could multiply the supply of housing in Ireland many times over. This crisis is totally fabricated. If people could build more floors in their houses, or hire small contractors to build a building instead of a house, it could revolutionize the country. And that sort of thing is true in many parts of the world. The problem is that it seems that the right to build houses and buildings is the privilege of very few companies that prefer not to build, because profiting from higher rents is better for them.
And fill it with refugees. Even better.
I’d love to see some high rises in ireland not gonna lie it’s the only thing I feel the country is missing
I’m living on the 20th floor where I am. Love it. Coming back to Ireland and living street level is not gonna be nice. Love the views, the quiet etc.
My only change is that I would have more active frontage on that ground floor. I know it’s part of the classical design language to have that sturdy plinth at the base but it does nothing for the street.
Very french looking aren’t they
Oh god won’t somebody think of the poor skyline!
-DCC
While landlord TDs pass legislation and enact policy that keep the housing disaster going.
Ye, why can’t we build apartments in the style of Georgian houses. Boom preserve the architectural heritage and provide housing
High Rise hellscape sky scraping nonsense!!
some developer tried to build a London mansion block style apartments like the picture in stepaside a few years but got rejected. The problem as always in Ireland we build in the wrong place, you should be building apartments like this closer to the city not somewhere you need a car. There’s a lot of small single story row of houses around the city that could be redeveloped like this.
Can probably fit 5x the number of people in those for the same land area, would be a huge improvement.
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This wouldn’t help with housing because they would only build them if a developer had already paid for them. Normal people wouldn’t be able to afford them, if they were even for sale.
Troy as we might
We can do that, €13bn and ready in 2031, not a bother
Should go back to the old ways of Building Societies. People club money together to build a group of houses/apartments for the members.
Agreed – 5 or 6 story apartments would be nice many places, and you’d get a lot of housing in a small footprint. High rises would be fine in a few defined places, parts of Dublin city center.
You have to find a way to dispossess all the people who buy one story cottages in stoneybatter and the like first.
We need a skyscraper. Up not out
Ireland is about the only country left that Irish people haven’t built proper multi-storeyed buildings in. It’s an absolute joke the way this countrys infrastructure has been allowed to rot with the amount of money flowing through it.
I object! It would take away from the ‘character’ of the area….
We don’t have the renting culture they have on the continent where traditionally most working class people expect to rent and take on properties long term. Here over the years renting was only for young people and poor people so Landlords treat tenants like they are beneath them and in return many tenants don’t respect their landlords or their property. It’s a vicious cycle of mutual disrespect which needs to be broken.
In France a lifetime tenancy with rent increases not allowed to exceed inflation and a cheap service contract is perfectly normal, can you imagine asking the average Dublin property developer to honour such terms?
Not on every street but in the right place would be a massive help. Lots of green areas along transport links. Not in my back yard would be the issue. Something different needs to be done because what’s happening currently is not working. Can’t rent and can’t buy
Some developer “Best we can do is some blocky student flats”
no chance😂
They managed to make sure it blends in *perfectly* with what was already there too. In fact it actually seems to tie it together better.
Where was this photo taken?
No problem you’ve got a 6.5m height restriction the roof has to be made out of photovoltaic solar panels and you need 6 parking spaces for every 2.8 cats in the building. Some lad used to keep cattle on that land 300yrs ago so the EPA and Archaeological department will have to dig down 30ft to see if there’s anything of significance to be found.
Everythings so clean, everyones young and well dressed and they got rid of those pesky traffic lights.
NIMBYs: “No.”
Load of social housing and half of it boarded up within a year.
Dublin is gonna look like an absolute shite hole in 40-60 years time when thousands of those identical, banal and ubiquitous post modern apartments begin to age. Tbh they look shite atm, even the new ones.
And yes, I know supply is a priority over aesthetics. But still.
And Somewhat related, can I add that the architecture of entire UCD campus is an affront to humanity and human decency. Whomever designed those buildings deserves a jail sentence. Compared to the old Trinity buildings in the city centre, its light and day.
They’d find an [“ancient Viking burial site” or something](https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/mary-lou-mcdonald-lodges-appeal-24631007) in the vecinity and cancel it immediately.
A bit low rise don’t ya think?
Knocking buildings from the 1930s and replacing them with something higher than 3 stories. An Taisce would have a fit.
I really like this. I think yes if you’re going more stories go the European or even Parisian look. Not the shabby London look.
Construction and architecture and completely and utterly broken in Ireland
That building mimics traditional style which is the first reason it would never be built in Dublin. All modern development has to be some band rendered box that literally nobody finds appealing. Bonus points for bizarrely tiny windows
Architectural revival is very unpopular here for some reason. This post highlights what a shame that is.
I’ve said a million times, Ireland needs way more multi-story apartments and less houses.
Plenty of decaying towns and villages which should be leveled to the ground and redesigned to better reflect more vibrant and dynamic atmosphere.
Imagine trying to get planning for that here. The council would have a stroke.
Well unfortunately Dublin is full of people who want to live in a city but also have a decent sized back garden for themselves (and front garden). Also, if you’re building in an empty block of land for something like this? Don’t you dare block the locals view of absolutely nothing with your proposed 200 affordable housing.
But d’ skyline!!!
There’s a reason why I, amongst others, left the island. Grass is greener, yeah, but that greener grass in many ways works better.
I like this
But I *Prefer* this
Having a master plan that allows people to build small 4-5 story buildings in place of their homes could multiply the supply of housing in Ireland many times over. This crisis is totally fabricated. If people could build more floors in their houses, or hire small contractors to build a building instead of a house, it could revolutionize the country. And that sort of thing is true in many parts of the world. The problem is that it seems that the right to build houses and buildings is the privilege of very few companies that prefer not to build, because profiting from higher rents is better for them.
And fill it with refugees. Even better.
I’d love to see some high rises in ireland not gonna lie it’s the only thing I feel the country is missing
I’m living on the 20th floor where I am. Love it. Coming back to Ireland and living street level is not gonna be nice. Love the views, the quiet etc.
My only change is that I would have more active frontage on that ground floor. I know it’s part of the classical design language to have that sturdy plinth at the base but it does nothing for the street.
Very french looking aren’t they
Oh god won’t somebody think of the poor skyline!
-DCC
While landlord TDs pass legislation and enact policy that keep the housing disaster going.
Ye, why can’t we build apartments in the style of Georgian houses. Boom preserve the architectural heritage and provide housing
High Rise hellscape sky scraping nonsense!!
some developer tried to build a London mansion block style apartments like the picture in stepaside a few years but got rejected. The problem as always in Ireland we build in the wrong place, you should be building apartments like this closer to the city not somewhere you need a car. There’s a lot of small single story row of houses around the city that could be redeveloped like this.
Can probably fit 5x the number of people in those for the same land area, would be a huge improvement.