Cartrain (born 1991? Often stylised cartяain, is a British artist associated with the graffiti urban art movement. YBA artist Damien Hirst has threatened to take legal steps against Cartain over his art and activities.

On November 10, 2010, Cartrain and fellow street artist Vagabond managed to smuggle a Cannabis joint inside the Palace of Westminster. Whilst Nick Clegg was answering PM's questions he proceeded to light up and shout "Decriminalise Cannabis" in the House Of Commons and then passed the joint around each other. They were later cautioned and released without charge.

Cartrain in a statement told the Evening Standard

'They said they would put me in a cell under Big Ben, which I said sounds amazing, like the most expensive hotel in London, but then they decided to let me go when they realised I was quite keen to be arrested.'

This Cartrain sticker appeared around 2008 and was ripped in 2009. The Shuby paste up was 2009 ad the last one's date is unknown.

I have a terrible feeling that we are embarking on the path to a new property boom here in Dublin.

Two separate veterinary schools were run by UCD and TCD at the Ballsbridge site and this continued until 1977 when the two schools were merged and fully incorporated into UCD.

Luke and Brian Comer paid €22.5m for the veterinary college site in June 2013. That was an 87pc discount to the €171.5m paid by the previous owners in 2005 at the height of the Irish property boom. Construction began when the prime office market in Dublin was recovering strongly but residential prices, and rents, were still relatively stagnant. However, the residential market is now booming, especially up-market locations such as Dublin 4. The recent shortage of suitable housing has made homes close to the city particularly desirable, while rents have surged by as much as 20% in parts of Dublin.

I cannot believe the amount of student accommodation that is currently under construction within walking distance of my apartment.

A developer has applied to build student apartments at 56-64 Dominick Street, the site of the former Michael H clothing factory. The complex will consist of the original four-storey building with and additional floor plus a sixth-storey penthouse.

Michael H is a well known fashion label established by Michael Heather in the late 1970s.

Capital Dock will include 313,000 square feet of office space across three buildings, as well as 204 residential units across two buildings - one of which will incorporate a 19-storey tower. The proposed development would also have a new 1.5 acre landscaped public park and square, designated cultural space and retail units [they all do don’t they? they are known as POPS].

More about POPS at www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/04/pops-privately-own...

Capital Dock will include 313,000 square feet of office space across three buildings, as well as 204 residential units across two buildings - one of which will incorporate a 19-storey tower. The proposed development would also have a new 1.5 acre landscaped public park and square, designated cultural space and retail units [they all do don’t they? they are known as POPS].

More about POPS at www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/04/pops-privately-own...

I came across these whilst having a clear-out of my books. New Sights of London was, I regret to record, stolen from the library of Staple Hill Secondary Modern School for Boys, whose stamp of ownership may still be seen on some of the pages. At the age of 15 or so, I was so besotted with London, modern architecture, planning and traffic schemes, that I was driven to this act of petty criminality. Now it can be told ...as they used to say in the News of the World. This interest in grandiose planning schemes and colossal rebuildings was one of several correspondences I noticed between my own character and that of the late Adolf Hitler. I devised a new capital city ...that dream of megalomaniacs down through the ages... to be built on the Somerset Levels, and began mapping the whole thing in great detail, down to trees and lamp posts. I remember it was to be centred on Bridgwater. That town was, of course, to be entirely swept away but commemorated in the name of the new metropolis, which I modestly declined to name after myself. Then there was my underground railway for Bristol. I remember little of this except that it must have been a very extensive system, for there was a station at Castle Combe.

At 18 there is nothing you hate so much as the things you liked at 15. By the time I bought Bristol of the Future I had become an architectural conservative, indeed a reactionary ...a conservationist ten years before "conservation" was invented. When it was invented I didn't care for it. "Never happy", as Mrs Bentos sometimes remarks.

The London booklet was produced by the LCC, which did not long survive its publication, being superseded by the GLC in about 1967 I think. It is quite an interesting historical document, being written at the zenith of the property boom, when everyone thought that the large-scale redevelopment of our cities was an urgent and humane necessity. It contains maps of central London and some of the suburbs, directing the modern architecture slueth to such "new sights" as C&A Modes, Oxford Street, Bowater House, Knightsbridge, or Tulse Hill Secondary School.

The Bristol book was a summary of the City Council's 1966 Development Plan. A few of its proposals did materialise, if only in modified form, but mostly, thank goodness, they did not. Fragments of the Outer Circuit Road were built, and the lower part of Totterdown was cleared to make way for it, but nothing at all came of its western half, with multi-level interchanges at the bottom of Jacob's Wells Road and at Tyndall's Park.

“The development, which is bounded by water on two sides, places a significant emphasis on public space with a new 1.5-acre landscaped public park and square, designated cultural space and a significant retail/leisure offering.”

Every developer promises lots of public space in order to get planning permission but it is often the case that they fail to deliver or if they do the space turns out to be a POPS[Privately Owned Public Space] which is so restricted that it is nothing more than a pretend ‘public space’.

Delivery of the office element of the scheme is expected by Q4 2017 with the residential element is due for completion sometime in 2018.

Abandoned bonded warehouse in Bristol's docklands. No doubt it'll soon be turned into shoebox-sized, overpriced & shoddily constructed "city living apartments"...

“The development, which is bounded by water on two sides, places a significant emphasis on public space with a new 1.5-acre landscaped public park and square, designated cultural space and a significant retail/leisure offering.”

Every developer promises lots of public space in order to get planning permission but it is often the case that they fail to deliver or if they do the space turns out to be a POPS[Privately Owned Public Space] which is so restricted that it is nothing more than a pretend ‘public space’.

Delivery of the office element of the scheme is expected by Q4 2017 with the residential element is due for completion sometime in 2018.

Capital Dock will include 313,000 square feet of office space across three buildings, as well as 204 residential units across two buildings - one of which will incorporate a 19-storey tower. The proposed development would also have a new 1.5 acre landscaped public park and square, designated cultural space and retail units [they all do don’t they? they are known as POPS].

More about POPS at www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/04/pops-privately-own...

“The development, which is bounded by water on two sides, places a significant emphasis on public space with a new 1.5-acre landscaped public park and square, designated cultural space and a significant retail/leisure offering.”

Every developer promises lots of public space in order to get planning permission but it is often the case that they fail to deliver or if they do the space turns out to be a POPS[Privately Owned Public Space] which is so restricted that it is nothing more than a pretend ‘public space’.

Delivery of the office element of the scheme is expected by Q4 2017 with the residential element is due for completion sometime in 2018.

Capital Dock will include 313,000 square feet of office space across three buildings, as well as 204 residential units across two buildings - one of which will incorporate a 19-storey tower. The proposed development would also have a new 1.5 acre landscaped public park and square, designated cultural space and retail units [they all do don’t they? they are known as POPS].

More about POPS at www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/04/pops-privately-own...

“The development, which is bounded by water on two sides, places a significant emphasis on public space with a new 1.5-acre landscaped public park and square, designated cultural space and a significant retail/leisure offering.”

Every developer promises lots of public space in order to get planning permission but it is often the case that they fail to deliver or if they do the space turns out to be a POPS[Privately Owned Public Space] which is so restricted that it is nothing more than a pretend ‘public space’.

Delivery of the office element of the scheme is expected by Q4 2017 with the residential element is due for completion sometime in 2018.

Colourful bird houses spotted on Mountain Rd, near Sentry Hill.

They stood out against the stormy grey sky. Taranaki, NZ.

building brand new 2-3 stories on top of an early 20 century house is referred to as "restoration" in bankspeak.

o.0

“The development, which is bounded by water on two sides, places a significant emphasis on public space with a new 1.5-acre landscaped public park and square, designated cultural space and a significant retail/leisure offering.”

Every developer promises lots of public space in order to get planning permission but it is often the case that they fail to deliver or if they do the space turns out to be a POPS[Privately Owned Public Space] which is so restricted that it is nothing more than a pretend ‘public space’.

Delivery of the office element of the scheme is expected by Q4 2017 with the residential element is due for completion sometime in 2018.

Capital Dock will include 313,000 square feet of office space across three buildings, as well as 204 residential units across two buildings - one of which will incorporate a 19-storey tower. The proposed development would also have a new 1.5 acre landscaped public park and square, designated cultural space and retail units [they all do don’t they? they are known as POPS].

More about POPS at www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/04/pops-privately-own...

Capital Dock will include 313,000 square feet of office space across three buildings, as well as 204 residential units across two buildings - one of which will incorporate a 19-storey tower. The proposed development would also have a new 1.5 acre landscaped public park and square, designated cultural space and retail units [they all do don’t they? they are known as POPS].

More about POPS at www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/04/pops-privately-own...

Capital Dock will include 313,000 square feet of office space across three buildings, as well as 204 residential units across two buildings - one of which will incorporate a 19-storey tower. The proposed development would also have a new 1.5 acre landscaped public park and square, designated cultural space and retail units [they all do don’t they? they are known as POPS].

More about POPS at www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/04/pops-privately-own...

Capital Dock will include 313,000 square feet of office space across three buildings, as well as 204 residential units across two buildings - one of which will incorporate a 19-storey tower. The proposed development would also have a new 1.5 acre landscaped public park and square, designated cultural space and retail units [they all do don’t they? they are known as POPS].

More about POPS at www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/04/pops-privately-own...

It's over.

Used to be, people would bid up on apartments in Melbourne. Now, I'm getting phone calls from agents and these lovely text messages telling me the price has dropped. I haven't actually inspected this property, but I keep hearing about it - I'm tempted to go look at it tomorrow (no stalkers, plz, k thx).

Too bad I'm not looking for an apartment any more...