Call for a roof over Portlaoise Main Street
Reporter: );
);
A Portlaoise councillor has suggested a roof to cover the Main Street to boost business this Summer.
Cllr Catherine Fitzgerald is tabling a motion to this morning s Portlaoise Municipal District Meeting. That the council apply for funding for a canopy / roof for Main Street and also ensure that Market Square is included in the Public Realm, she asks.
The town recently was awarded €9 million in Government funding for Public Realm Works at Market Sq, Main St and Lyster Sq to enhance access and regenerate business and cultural activity.
It will also pay for the completion of the Cultural Quarter around Fitzmaurice Square and Scoil Mhuire, enhancing the streetscape on James Fintan Lalor Avenue to prioritise pedestrian access, cycling and public transport, and creating urban development sites along JFL Ave.
One of Warrington s most historic buildings has sold for £550k AN historic building in Warrington town centre has sold. 21 Bold Street is a grade II listed building and went on the market for £500,000 last year. It has been empty for more than almost a year after well known legal firm FDR moved its commercial department when its lease came to an end at the end of 2019 from 21 Bold Street to 1-3 Palmyra Square, situated across the road. The move brought to an end an 80-year period when 21 Bold Street has been the home of a number of local firms of solicitors.
Låt kulturen växa på höjden – bygg nytt kulturhus på Järntorget gp.se - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gp.se Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Architectural historian
The 5k lockdown has demonstrated the enduring appeal of the city as a place where people come together. A city is more than just a collection of buildings. It is also the spaces in-between. It is a public place where people linger, strolling about chatting and people watching. COVID-19 has exposed the inequality that exists in our mobility measures in our cities.
I posed the same question to architects across the country –
how can we make our cities work?
Dublin
Dominic Stevens, Director of JFOC Architects
Let s understand Dublin as a collection of neighbourhoods, not as a central business district surrounded by sprawling dormitory suburbs as was foreseen in the 1970s and 80s. In the great cities of Europe there are people living on every street and people working on every street. Shops at ground level, cafes on corners, daytime and night time activity. In Dublin this high-density lived-in city should stretch from the centre out to the surrounding u