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    La mia foto del centro commerciale St Stephen’s Green. Ci mancherà quando non ci sarà più: aveva sicuramente carattere

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    1. Aggravating-Walk7972 on

      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.

    2. EaseTraditional3803 on

      It’s such a beautiful building, I can’t believe it’s going to be torn down.

    5. DTMN13 on

      I can’t wait for the bland, modern, soulless, vivisection of a rectangle that replaces this wonderfully unique shopping centre.

    7. Lynch8933 on

      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

    10. Wonderful_Flower_751 on

      How does a building like this not have a preservation order on it?

    12. Prior_Vacation_2359 on

      Only in Ireland would this even be considered to be removed

    13. heshtios on

      I’m all for redesigning it, but could they have at least tried to make it look nice is instead of needlessly Soviet?

    15. Active_Site_6754 on

      What a disgrace it is to “modernise” this spot. Stupid people 🙄

    16. minstrelboy57 on

      As a premium shopping centre location, it has about as much glitz and style as Moore St. Senseless layout. Time for it to go. The new plan has to be an improvement. I remember Dandelion Market though, miss the Afghan shop.

    17. TheGaelicPrince on

      It is not going, there have been objections to the redevelopment, a second objection has been issued.

    18. Nadirin on

      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. 

    19. Jacksonriverboy on

      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.

    20. danmingothemandingo on

      There should only be something of a more beautiful design allowed to replace it

    21. redmabelgrade on

      I always wondered how sore it would be to fall off those balconies onto the little pyramid roofs down below.

    23. tearsandpain84 on

      Everything changes and we will die. That being said the plans for the new one look horrible

    25. lejosdecasa on

      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.

    26. DexLights on

      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

    27. DuckyD2point0 on

      Why do we always do this in Ireland “oh they want to destroy the character of the place, it’s a disgrace”, it’s a shopping center ffs. It will make no difference to anyone’s life if they change the look completely. Even with an old tenenament building the same could be said but the difference is that those type of buildings are genuinely historical and need to be kept in certain parts of the city. Where as this literally just a shopping centre.

    28. AnarchistPineMarten on

      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

    29. celticyinyang on

      Gone? Missed?

      I love this place at Christmas

      Stunning so it is

    30. hef1racer on

      Not enough big posters with ads – how would I know which products to consume in a place like this! Tear it down

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