New Canteen

Effluo · 10-12-2009 3:52pm #1

http://cpdoffice.nuim.ie/news.shtml

So there was no conspiracy after all...

Looks to be some nice outdoor seating there too! sweet

+ covered cycle stands

token56 · 10-12-2009 4:59pm

Looks decent. Have they got planning permission already or do they need it?

banquo · 10-12-2009 5:24pm

The plans for the new 'restaraunt', and the whole of north campus leading down to the new library, are amazing. This includes the new arts block. They're not publicly available yet because they're still being finalised, but wait until you see them. Amazing stuff.

funky penguin · 10-12-2009 5:41pm

Thank GOD they realised up is teh way to go. I was terrified they'd just plaster in another ground floor only sty for mucking us student types.

Any word on an expected dates yet? These are only propsals as well, oui? I assume this means they're subject to quite a bit of change.

banquo · 10-12-2009 5:43pm

Yeah, probably loads. There's a planning permission sign up by the north campus entrance along the Moyglare Road.

rcaz · 10-12-2009 6:21pm

Will any of us still be in college when this stuff is up?

LeixlipRed · 10-12-2009 6:26pm

Yeh, I'm never leaving. I went to Kilcock by accident yesterday and I felt ill. It's not safe to leave.

AtomicHorror · 10-12-2009 6:29pm

banquo wrote: »

The plans for the new 'restaraunt', and the whole of north campus leading down to the new library, are amazing. This includes the new arts block. They're not publicly available yet because they're still being finalised, but wait until you see them. Amazing stuff.

A new arts block? Thought the current... thing... was due to be kept as-is for the next 10 years at least? Or are you referring to the new building next to Hume?

Effluo · 10-12-2009 7:09pm

On the facebook site they said that their initial deadline is going to be Jan 2010, also an "all-student" email will be sent tomorrow about all the details. It supposedly will seat 600+(all info regurgitated from facebook)

cian1500ww · 10-12-2009 8:55pm

AtomicHorror wrote: »

A new arts block? Thought the current... thing... was due to be kept as-is for the next 10 years at least? Or are you referring to the new building next to Hume?

The building that's going up beside Hume is the new arts block, don't know what the old building will be used for.

Seren_ · 10-12-2009 9:31pm

I heard that the building going up beside JH is a new research building and that NIRSA and An Foras Feasa are going into it, but then again everyone seems to have heard its for different things.

The plans for the new canteen look great

I imagine I'll be long gone before it's built though, even if I plan on staying here as long as possible :P

cian1500ww · 10-12-2009 10:19pm

Your Text Here wrote: »

I heard that the building going up beside JH is a new research building and that NIRSA and An Foras Feasa are going into it, but then again everyone seems to have heard its for different things.

In first year orientation last year we were told that there was going to be a new arts block started that year.

Seren_ · 10-12-2009 10:23pm

cian1500ww wrote: »

In first year orientation last year we were told that there was going to be a new arts block started that year.

Oh right

a new Arts block would probably make a lot more sense too.

banquo · 10-12-2009 11:05pm

On the second floor balcony, there's a luxurious private dining area for president john Hughes overlooking the whole ground floor.

goonyougoodthin · 11-12-2009 12:14am

Your Text Here wrote: »

I heard that the building going up beside JH is a new research building and that NIRSA and An Foras Feasa are going into it, but then again everyone seems to have heard its for different things.

The plans for the new canteen look great I imagine I'll be long gone before it's built though, even if I plan on staying here as long as possible :P

I got an e-mail about that new building, can't see it atm but I'll have a look for it tomorrow if I get the chance, it's going to have a 350 seat lecture theatre and 3 new research labs and I think it said something along the lines of a seating area with wifi, meant to be finished in 2010.

ScissorPaperRock · 11-12-2009 12:48am

Your Text Here wrote: »

I heard that the building going up beside JH is a new research building and that NIRSA and An Foras Feasa are going into it, but then again everyone seems to have heard its for different things.

The plans for the new canteen look great I imagine I'll be long gone before it's built though, even if I plan on staying here as long as possible :P

It's going to host three research institutions, but students too and probably other facilities

http://communications.nuim.ie/050509.shtml

Ostrom · 11-12-2009 3:46pm

Plans are up, looks nice!

LeixlipRed · 11-12-2009 4:30pm

Burn it!

Ostrom · 11-12-2009 6:01pm

AtomicHorror · 14-12-2009 2:13am

cian1500ww wrote: »

In first year orientation last year we were told that there was going to be a new arts block started that year.

Well it's not the building next to Hume. It's primarily a research building that also has a new lecture hall- so sorta like the Hume Building but minus all the extra teaching rooms. The Arts Block is, as far as I know, still the Arts Block and will be for the foreseeable- 10 years or more probably.

LeixlipRed wrote: »

Burn it!

Can you account for you whereabouts when the canteen vaporised? :pac:

PrivateEye · 15-12-2009 6:47pm

On Facebook (Maynooth SU page) people are suggesting (I cant open the PDF for some reason at the minute) that the President has a private dining area in the new canteen? Brilliant, John Hughes was always in the old canteen eating Ham Sambos with the little people after all :rolleyes:

Nision · 18-12-2009 1:33pm

I really really really hope thats a joke. Its sad that i really cant be sure...
Dr. Galavan will probably get one too, he seems to be well connected.

DingChavez · 18-12-2009 5:58pm

lol, private dining area. Just according to keikaku.

leopoldbloom · 18-12-2009 7:15pm

Private dining room for the president, yes.

SU Shop to replace the one in the old canteen, no.

Shame... It does look lovely though, I'm not all moans!

leopoldbloom · 18-12-2009 7:17pm

Also the new building beside John Hume, which I've taken to calling the Bertie Building, is a post-grad building, accommodating c. 200 students and a few of the Research Institutes, ie. an Foras Feasa etc. There is a plan for a new arts block but not until we're all gone...

AtomicHorror · 20-12-2009 4:58pm

PrivateEye wrote: »

On Facebook (Maynooth SU page) people are suggesting (I cant open the PDF for some reason at the minute) that the President has a private dining area in the new canteen? Brilliant, John Hughes was always in the old canteen eating Ham Sambos with the little people after all :rolleyes:

I think there's a private dining room but I would guess it will serve as a general visitors dining room for things like official visits, inspections, funding body schmoozing and so forth. That last one being particularly important since they're the guys who toss us the money to build more canteens. And other buildings.

Don't be so hard on old President Hughes- he's far better than the last fella we had. He wanted a new whole new library named after himself, or so I am told.

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