Will they ever finish the Sentinel Tower in Sandyford? If not, just knock it down already because it’s nothing but a fat eyesore
Will they ever finish the Sentinel Tower in Sandyford? If not, just knock it down already because it’s nothing but a fat eyesore
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https://planning.agileapplications.ie/dunlaoghaire/application-details/73540
It has planning to be finished (offices and 2 additional floors) since 2017 but the developers are sitting on it.
Is it named after that island in the Indian Ocean where no outsiders are allowed to go?
Will weathering not fuck this up?
It’s the most depressing rich people area of them all, just concrete upon concrete upon traffic everywhere.
Looking at the photo. New owner sought permission to put extra floors on left wing. But turned down. It’s ironic watching it being build back in 2006 and wondering what sandyford was being turned into. Now 16 yrs later it looks hedious. The two tone blue glass frontage is seen everywhere and it reminds me of that horrible old social welfare building in Dublin city… Be interesting what happens to this eye sore…
When you consider the actual lettable floorspace when both stairwells, liftshafts and toilet cores are not counted in such a small footprint, I doubt it would make any profit at all if it were to be finished.
> fat eyesore
..hey! – less of the ‘fat’. I’m the skinniest tower in town, sideways anyway.
The sad scene of a suicide a few years back. Perhaps it should be knocked down.
I think it should be treated like a piece of modern art or national monument and people should come from far and wide and gaze upon it and forever remember the lessons we learned during the Celtic Tiger and never make the same mistakes again.
Who is going to sign off the certification on that building after it being left derelict for a decade?
Easier to tear it down.
It’s owned by the comer brothers. They buy stressed assets, hoard them for years and then sell it to the highest bidder. This is what they do. They’re an absolute cancer to Irish real estate.
I asked DLRCC to add this building tbe derelict sites register so at the very least there could be some pressure on them to do something. The council just said they don’t consider it derelict as there is some site activity from time to time sure as removal of rubble and gods know what else.
Half the feckin buildings in Sandy look like this😭
that looks awful
Try to get it listed, they will knock it in a heartbeat…
The relic of the crash
Worked in Sandyford for a few years and don’t mind the place, but found it very sterile in a way. Nice apartments, offices, private hospital, car dealerships, other actual ongoing building projects flying up, and then this big eye sore in the middle of it all almost brought some personality. And was always quite drawn to it for that reason.
Would look class if they turned it into a living wall. Just put a fuck tonne of hanging plants and climbers on it.
It needs to be knocked down, it’ll never be finished at this rate. Let it serve as a Celtic Tiger lesson, one of many…
Fucking piece of shit should be hit with artillery rockets.
It was purchased some time ago for under a million. To make it financial viable to new owners and make back on their returns they wanted to put two extra floors on the wing on the left. From what I remember planning was turned down to have the original structure finished first .. so no work has progressed..