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SIPTU HAS APPLIED for planning permission to demolish the existing Liberty Hall and replace it with an even taller building.
The trade union wants to upgrade its offices and establish a performance arts centre in the space on Eden Quay in Dublin.
Currently, the 17-storey office building stands 60 metres high but the new proposals, if allowed to go ahead, will see a 100 metre complex built.
The first 17 floors would accommodate offices, SIPTU said in its planning application, but the top four floors would house a public heritage centre and a Skydeck viewing facility and café.
SIPTU had previously submitted a plan to Dublin City Council about revamping Liberty Hall but subsequently pulled it to figure out design kinks.
Although the application looks impressive and discusses a slimmer building, better use of space, landscaped terraces and winter gardens, there have been objections to demolishing the original building.
One group who has set up a Facebook page to save the building calls it an “icon of Sixties architecture” and a symbol of Dublin’s first boom era.
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Thought google was around longer than 1998
@Billy Nomates: That’s the only one I got right!
@Billy Nomates: it was yahoo who was the number one search engine, back then in the dail up internet days
5 out of 10…considering my age i thought i would have remembered more…happy new year to all.
Most of the kids on here are too young to remember 1998.
I remember working on work projects in 1998. I mustn’t have turned on the radio once that year.
10/10 proving that your favourite tweeting ex MP/TD/Republican Terrorist is stuck in a time warp.
@Baron Adams TD: happy New Year, Jorry.
Who to F**k were Aqua.
I haven’t a clue who Aqua were.
Happy New Year, all.
@ktsiwot: how could you forget ” I’m a Barbie girl in a Barbie world “!
@Darcy: Damn, I mixed them up with Roxette!!!
You would know if you were young in 1998. seems every day in the car was hearing one of their hits at the time. Cartoons Witch Doctor followed, just to keep with the 20 years old stuff.
I can’t recollect even 2018. Now you are talking things that were happened about a decade back!
@Dr. Udaya Khandavilli: 2 decades
@David Clements: Haha
5 out of 10 – surprised there was no question on Le Tour de Dopage which started in Dublin that year and triggered the Festina Affair
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