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OPEN CALL: Imagine College Green

Nov

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OPEN CALL: Imagine College Green

by Dublin City Council in association with the National Transport Authority an...

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Date and time

Wed, 16 November 2016

18:00 – 21:30 GMT

Location

The Round Room at the Mansion House

2 Dawson Street

Dublin

Ireland

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INVITATION TO IMAGINE COLLEGE GREEN AS DUBLIN’S MOST IMPORTANT PUBLIC SPACE

A Public Consultation Workshop regarding the design of a Civic Space at College Green

16 November 2016

MANSION HOUSE Round Room

18.00 - 21.30

Refreshments on arrival

Dublin City Council in association with the National Transport Authority and assisted by ‘Happenings’ will be hosting a public discussion workshop regarding the design of a Civic Plaza at College Green.

The aim is to convene a public forum where citizens, interested parties, focus groups and designers can identify and discuss the challenges and opportunities at College Green. The discussions will inform the brief for the designers to be appointed for College Green.



Background

The importance of College Green as a public space and place of assembly can be traced through the history of Dublin as far back as the original Viking settlement. It has continued to serve in this capacity to varying degrees through history. College Green as we know it was laid out by the Wide Street Commissioners in 1782 when it was decided to provide a wide and unobstructed route between Dublin Castle and the Parliament House (Bank of Ireland), which would be terminated grandly by the facade of Trinity College. Before the work of the Wide Street Commissioners it provided the only large open paved space in the heart of the city where assemblies could take place.

The streetscape has been the subject of extensive change, particularly during the second half of the 20th century. Early photographs and views of College Green depict a clean, uncluttered open space with expansive views towards Trinity College and the Bank of Ireland. From the start of the 20th century onwards, the space gradually became more cluttered, with the provision of bicycle parking, traffic control signage and signals. During the second half of the 20th century the median islands were formed, at first providing parking for cars before being paved and planted for trees. Now they also contain the memorials to Henry Grattan and Thomas Davis.

College Green is enclosed by buildings of national and international importance, notably the Bank of Ireland and Trinity College, and contains a number of sculptural monuments of artistic significance. The Bank of Ireland, formerly the Parliament House, is notably one of the earliest purpose-built parliament houses in the western world and represents a major episode in Palladian architecture. It was designed by Edward Lovett Pearce and was constructed from 1728 to 1739. Between 1782 and 1784 James Gandon prepared 3 successive schemes for an extension and a new portico’d entrance to the House of Lords which were completed by 1789. Following the Act of Union in 1801, Francis Johnston designed the conversion of the Parliament Houses into the Bank buildings in 1803.

In recent years the quality of the public space at College Green has suffered from increasing traffic levels, overcrowded footpaths resulting in pedestrians navigating across fast moving traffic lanes. All of these issues impact negatively on the experience of people using the space.

An opportunity has been presented by the current LUAS Cross City works to fulfil the policy and objectives set out in the Dublin City Development plan to upgrade College Green and to promote the creation of a new public realm space at College Green. It is proposed to close the carriageway on Dame Street creating a large civic space in front of the Bank of Ireland which will incorporate Foster Place South and the memorials to Henry Grattan and Thomas Davis.

The Design of a Civic Space

In considering the challenge that the design of a Civic Space at College Green poses, the issues to be raised and discussed will include:

    1. Historic context – relating to existing monuments, art

    2. Activation of the space – relating to events, temporary use, night time experience

    3. Hard & soft infrastructure – greening and planting, seating and other permanent / temporary ‘furniture’ and signage

    4. User accessibility – relating to universal design, pedestrian / cycling experience

Opportunity

The reconfiguring of the streetscape through the construction of the LUAS Cross City and the reorganising of through traffic at College Green offers the opportunity for Dublin to regain an urban space of prime civic importance and for that space to be of National and International significance.

The next steps in the design process for a Civic Plaza at College Green will be:

November 2016: A Public Discussion Workshop regarding the design of a Civic Space at College Green

December 2016: Appointment of a multi-disciplinary team to design a Civic Space at College Green and provision of the report on outcomes of the workshop

January 2017: Finalise design brief informed by Workshop outcomes.

Spring 2017: Submission to An Bord Pleanala

Summer 2017: Commissioning and testing of LUAS Cross City

End 2017: Operation of LUAS Cross City

End 2017 / Early 2018: Construction work on Civic Plaza dependent on An Bord Pleanala decision


We hope you can make it.

Best,
Dublin City Council in association with the National Transport Authority and assisted by Happenings

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  • Dublin City Events
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  • Dublin Community Networking
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