Waterford North Quays

I would prefer the council takes it's time to get the right development rather than jump at the first plan over the line.. Remember, we have to live with this development for the next 100 years or so

I’m struggling to find the last upload on the link! Sorry if it’s obvious

Got it thank you!

In fairness to the council they are not happy with the tower element and require a more dominant structure. It should be on the edge next to the river not right at the back of the site by the train line. A lot of further information is about the tower and the apart hotel.

God you're gagging for failure.Give it a rest.

I was just about to share this particular part in regards the hotel.

"Waterford Council have outlined that the design of this building is considered too light and given its nodal location within the North Quays adjoining the central plaza, the design requires further consideration. The applicant has therefore been invited to address this concern by submitting revised plans for a more dominant/commanding design."

I think very few of us would disagree with the councils view point here.

Imagine if our leaders had a real vision. Apartments could look like this. Build in a city of 60k people in Denmark

People would come to see it.

Great images @Kilkenny36 I even like something like the below (colonge) it would be a throw back to cranes that pre existed on the site, a nod of the cap to our port days

Or the riverside museum in Glasgow, it could be shaped to reflect the South Quays.

The site definately craves some sort of imagination

I think the developer would need to be in it for a architecture point of view more so than the profit that can be made.

If Waterford was an iconic city it would be easier.

Maybe develop one building that is iconic and serves a purpose, an iconic unique hotel, make your buck from that then one apartment block, again iconic and in time everything developed there becomes iconic, rather than initially just maximising profit which is what I feel the initial plan was, which I get developers exist to make profit, we probably need some local person involved who would be pushing for something iconic as if the architect, Developer is all based outside of Waterford all is in it for them is profit.

The owner, Pat Doherty, is from Donegal. Their Director of Sales, Pat Power, is from Waterford.

If this ends up looking like a pig in a poke, it won't reflect well on bigshot TV celebrity architect Hugh Wallace.

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You are appropriately named. You may be right, but may also be wrong.

I am equally certain that the North Quays will be developed, if only for hotel use and apartments, sooner rather than later, simply because its a good site for both and population growth will drive it. I have lived a long time in Waterford listening to people saying with certainty that so and so will never happen (I heard it about motorway to Dublin? Second River crossing? City Bypass? Outer Ring Road? New Court House? Second Cath lab? Radiotherapy and private hospital? etc,etc) and then lo and behold, they happen. Despite your social analysis, the place has changed dramatically in the past 20 years. Consider, you and your analysis may be stuck in the social milieu you describe?

Did you ever think that 7million would be spent on restoring the old Men's Hostel in Lady Lane, in accordance with new Bauhaus aesthetic standards?

You misunderstand me, I do believe it will be developed, just not to the aesthetic we would all love to see.