So the brouchere said.
Walking around the Celtic Tiger graveyard which is the ‘ Beacon South Quarter’ area of the Sandyford Industrial Estate is a depressing experience that everyone should do once. Half east-Berlin housing development and half non-descript city post-Nuclear Fallout, some of the apartment blocks lie half-built while others are occupied by only a handful of people.
Grim.
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Donal
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Sam
Come Here To Me! 
I’ve been up the top of that tower, spectacular views of the city.
Reminds me of that quote from Fear & Loathing in that it’s like the high water mark of the Tiger.
The place where the wave of mad speculation finally broke and rolled back.
That poor man alone on his balcony says it all. Awful.
Sweet Jesus. That is appalling.
Lot different from the cultural end of the estate (park)I walked through when I found that the Luas to Sandyford went to the estate and not the village.
Rosa Parks!!!
This is GHASTLY. Anonymous and derivitive buildings like this erode the interest that people have in Dublin and Ireland as a place were you can still visit extraordinary architecture. I hope they implode it.
Kate, if you look closely ‘that poor man’ is actually printed onto the advertising banners covering the unfinished apartments. He’s on a balcony on the middle left of the photo, but is also on a balcony on the bottom right, too. I guess that makes his presence an even more trenchant comment on the building practices of the Celtic Tiger – the fictional, speculative resident that never actually existed.
One of your photos is part of another development, Rockbrook, and not part of the Beacon South Quarter.
Out of (I think) 13 blocks there is one and a half empty and one not built (and covered in the shredded banner). Majority of apartments are occupied and purchased.
It still looks like a dump though.
Fascinating to see these two years or so on since I last saw them. The false balcony wrappers look even more surreal now that they have started to fall apart.
http://irelandafternama.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/a-quick-walk-through-sandyford-dublin-%E2%80%98a-fresh-view-for-a-new-way-of-life%E2%80%99/
Philip
I lived there for almost two years. It was only when i moved out when i realised what a dump the whole area is. No green areas, very few amenities. The sad thing is it’ll probably never be finished.
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