The new Opera Lane in Cork City separates the gleaming buildings of the new development that was built right in the heart of the city and completed this year. Back in July it was a rugged dirty construction site, and this photo is a fitting end to 2009, and the Noughties. Not much construction work [...]
2009Thu31Dec
The half finished Opera Lane
Filed in Black and White, Canon 40D, Cork, Ireland, Photography, Photos, Sigma 10-20, Urban
2009Thu24Dec
Elysian Under Cover
Filed in Canon 40D, Cork, Ireland, Photography, Photos, Sigma 10-20, UrbanThe Elysian, as it was in March 2008, still under construction while the Irish Economy economy fell apart around it.
2009Mon30Nov
Academy Street Under Rubble
Filed in Academy Street, Canon 40D, Cork, Ireland, People, Photography, Photos, Sigma 10-20, Street, UrbanAcademy Street, as it was back in August this year. Construction work has finished since. I wonder if it’ll ever start up again?
2009Sat31Oct
I’m Still Standing
Filed in Architecture, Black and White, Canon 40D, Cork, Ireland, Photography, Photos, Sigma 18-200, UrbanIt’s wonderful how some of the old buildings in Cork are preserved while all around them their neighbours are demolished and shiny new edifices rise. This one is of course on Emmett Place.
2009Tue11Aug
H&M Cork
Filed in Black and White, Cork, Ireland, People, Photography, Photos, Street, UrbanH&M, one of the larger tenants in the new shopping center being built here on Academy Street.
2009Thu21May
Dunnes Stores in Ruins
Filed in Black and White, Canon 20D, Cork, Ireland, Photography, Photos, Sigma 10-20, Street, UrbanThe skeleton of the Dunnes Stores building on Patrick’s Street lies in ruins as building work continued to refurbish it. Taken in September 2007, Brian took a shot of the building a few days ago in much better state! Places are still available for the Cork City Photowalk on July 18th! Please leave comments on [...]
2009Wed15Apr
Vehicles Max Height 2.2m
Filed in Black and White, Cork, Ireland, Photography, Photos, Sigma 10-20, UrbanThe construction site that was Douglas Shopping Centre’s car park in December 2008. If you go there now you’ll drive up a slope where that digger is and a wall separates where I was standing with the roadway!
Old couches and mattresses lie in the building site that used to be Philip’s building on Cornmarket Street. Remember that big Philip’s sign on the roof of that building? I wonder if I have photos of that sign ..
2007Wed12Dec
Penneys from Drawbridge Street
Filed in Architecture, Canon 20D, Cork, Ireland, Photos, Sigma 18-200, Signs, UrbanPennys from Drawbridge Street Look carefully. The grey building in the background is Pennys on Patrick Street. This was taken on Drawbridge Street near Aroma. Once construction work commences in this view will be obscured forever. This is the same site as yesterday’s shot of Dunnes Stores and the JCB, from a different angle.
2007Tue11Dec
A JCB in Dunnes Stores
Filed in Architecture, Canon 20D, Cork, Emmet Place, Ireland, Photos, Sigma 18-200, Signs, Urban, VehiclesA JCB in Dunnes Stores Dunnes Stores on Patrick Street, Cork is no more. This is the back of the front of that building which has featured a number of times on my blog. The whole block is now gone!
