My photo of St Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre. It’ll be missed when it’s gone — it definitely had character
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My photo of St Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre. It’ll be missed when it’s gone — it definitely had character
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Posted by ParaMike46
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I hated having to get down from the upper floors, long walk to the middle section to get to the stairs, if you were in a certain location. So won’t be missing that.
It’s such a beautiful building, I can’t believe it’s going to be torn down.
what is happening to it ?
Terrible impractical layout inside.
I can’t wait for the bland, modern, soulless, vivisection of a rectangle that replaces this wonderfully unique shopping centre.
It wasn’t the best internal layout imo.
In any other country this building would be a crown jewel but greed and corruption demands money is wasted on building something in its place
Big empty hanger. Never a nice place to dwell.
It has character but not many ships or customers
How does a building like this not have a preservation order on it?
Is it going?
Only in Ireland would this even be considered to be removed
It’s not going anywhere
We’re saving it
There is a petition on Uplift. If we all, take five minutes we can make our voices be heard.
What a disgrace it is to “modernise” this spot. Stupid people 🙄
Whats gonna happen with it? what an absolute beauty! (I’m not from Ireland, nor have I ever visited it, that’s why I have no clue)
It is not going, there have been objections to the redevelopment, a second objection has been issued.
Seems so obvious to just improve the current building with travelators to make the upper floors more accessible and increase foot traffic. Only issue it has is accessibility with poorly placed stairs / escalators and a small number of lifts.
It’s pleasant, but it’s not the huge historical landmark it’s made out to be. Sure it’s only been around since 1988. At the end of the day, it probably makes more sense to have a more efficient use of space. We can’t just pretend every building that looks nice is of great significance. That would end up completely stunting development of the city.
Not mad about the new design, but lets not canonise the old one.
There should only be something of a more beautiful design allowed to replace it
Not a massive fan of the new design, but I just don’t see the appeal of the current building. Ok, the roof looks nice enough from outside, maybe a bit filthy and old looking, but the inside is an unappealing shithole. The food area is a disorganized mess. The top floor is just awkward and the quality of shops is abismal. If I ever need anything in the place I just want to get in and out as quick as possible.
I always wondered how sore it would be to fall off those balconies onto the little pyramid roofs down below.
Everything changes and we will die. That being said the plans for the new one look horrible
A friend of my family called it the “Mississippi Gambler.”
Still, if we have to have non-Georgian architecture in Stephen’s Green, I’d rather see something with personality.
The permission already went in ages ago, everyone complained online and nothing happened. Then the news comes out again and the top comments are filled with a sense of fatalism and finality. The old building is still there. No demolition has happened. We have such a passive mindset on this sort of thing until it’s well too late. Not trying to criticise but it’s become a bit of a patter ya know
PS: the internal layout is terrible. I’d be for changes to that, a major refit, just not ripping out the building’s soul
It’s mad how often the red tape holds up essential infrastructure, but this got approved even with the immediate backlash. Someone somewhere is getting an brown envelope for this lol
Gone? Missed?
I love this place at Christmas
Stunning so it is
I was only in here once. I remember being upstairs and looking around trying to figure out where the hell the stairs were lol.