ChutneyLove Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 That's about when I went to the party. I dinna really think Rosemount itself is a shit-hole, I just noticed the name of the newest member was RosemountRed so thought I'd make him feel welcome. Link to comment
The Boofon Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 I tell you where's looking shit nowadays. Rosemount.Went to a party years ago in Rosemount Square. The folk seemed alright when we were out. Got back there and their neighbours turned up. Left shortly afterwards. Minkersville. A little pocket of shit in Aberdeen's centre.Does anyone actually obey that "no right turn" at the lights in Rosemount that take you down to the Denburn car park? Link to comment
Bluto10 Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Can some please tell me why they're buildi g a massive St Nicolas House II ? Link to comment
Bluto10 Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 No.I knew you wouldn't be able to. It was a semi complex q to answer after all Link to comment
Dandyesque Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Aberdeen does have some great buildings but none of them are recent. Can anyone name a building constructed in Aberdeen since the beginning of the oil boom that is of any real merit? The New Aberdeen University Library is cool Link to comment
Dandyesque Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Can some please tell me why they're buildi g a massive St Nicolas House II ? Because councillors get paid about £14k per year. Pay peanuts... It's a ridiculous decision. Aberdeen does need a civic centre - I thought UTG was the wrong place for it though and the cost would have ended up far more than quoted. The St Nick House site would be perfect - right in front of Aberdeen's most beatiful and impressive building- the 2nd largest granite building in the world. Provost Skene House is an excellent bonus ball. This could help bring in tourism - it's the kind of thing most tourists come to Scotland for - as well as regenerating the bottom of Union St which is dire need. You could close off Broad St and the Bottom of Union St to King St and join the Castlegate to it as a pedestrianised area and still leave the majority of Union St as a main thoroughfare. £5m could get you a decent square with a wee bit of landscaping and sculptures and so on. £20m could reinvent the city centre. And they're going to build ANOTHER shopping centre. Fucking morons. 2 Link to comment
Poodler Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Because councillors get paid about £14k per year. Pay peanuts... It's a ridiculous decision. Aberdeen does need a civic centre - I thought UTG was the wrong place for it though and the cost would have ended up far more than quoted. The St Nick House site would be perfect - right in front of Aberdeen's most beatiful and impressive building- the 2nd largest granite building in the world. Provost Skene House is an excellent bonus ball. This could help bring in tourism - it's the kind of thing most tourists come to Scotland for - as well as regenerating the bottom of Union St which is dire need. You could close off Broad St and the Bottom of Union St to King St and join the Castlegate to it as a pedestrianised area and still leave the majority of Union St as a main thoroughfare. £5m could get you a decent square with a wee bit of landscaping and sculptures and so on. £20m could reinvent the city centre. And they're going to build ANOTHER shopping centre. Fucking morons.Councillor wages, not including expenses which is further along the page Link to comment
TwoStars Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Councillor wages, not including expenses which is further along the page Chuffed to know I comfortably make more than that tube Willie Young. Link to comment
Dandyesque Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Ok £16,400 then, not £14,000. That works out to the same as someone working 40 hours a week earning £8.00 per hour - roughly the living wage. Not exactly going to attract the brightest and most able is it? Not when someone can earn double that working as a steward offshore Link to comment
The Boofon Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Ok £16,400 then, not £14,000. That works out to the same as someone working 40 hours a week earning £8.00 per hour - roughly the living wage. Not exactly going to attract the brightest and most able is it? Not when someone can earn double that working as a steward offshoreIsn't being a councillor a 2nd job? Thought it was something you did in your spare time from your proper job. Link to comment
Robbie Winters Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Councillor wages, not including expenses which is further along the page Depute Provost, £21,500 - What justifies that kind of salary ? Link to comment
Dandyesque Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Isn't being a councillor a 2nd job? Thought it was something you did in your spare time from your proper job. In that case, it's worse. I'd sooner pay the fuckers double to do a proper full-time job. Link to comment
The Boofon Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 In that case, it's worse. I'd sooner pay the fuckers double to do a proper full-time job.I don't know if it's a part time thing or not. Link to comment
rumpus Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Vice Convenor Audit and Risk That's a ' Find a corner desk so no-one can see your computer screen cause you spend all day on internet' job if ever there was one... Link to comment
NorthernLights24 Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 More pish that I bet won't come to anything - http://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/news/local/viva-aberdeen-granite-city-looks-to-rival-madrid-berlin-and-gothenburg-1.708190 Link to comment
dave_min Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Hope nae, Gothenburg is pish. Link to comment
dervish Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Can we nae roof Union Street fae the Trinity to Market Street? A nice clear perspex roof would be brilliant. EDIT: Looks like I'm nae the only genius thinking of this.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-25917689 Cabot Circus in Bristol is like that (but better looking). Sure as fuck aren't any beggars there. Pics dinna do it justice but it's huge. Also when it was just opening no hotel rooms in the whole of Bristol so ended up getting put in an executive one because it was last one left. Normal bog roll and everything. Link to comment
NorthernLights24 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Marischal Square looks fucking shite - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-30717143 Link to comment
King Street Loon Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 That looks shit.Fucking idiots who allow these things to come to pass. Link to comment
Bluto10 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Council canna pay much for Software Geeks, that looks total bollocks.Nerdiest of the nerdy are those types.Zero social skills as well. Link to comment
Admin Bebo Posted January 9, 2015 Admin Share Posted January 9, 2015 Council canna pay much for Software Geeks, that looks total bollocks. Don't think the council paid for it nor did they come from the development firm. Looks like the mock-ups came from the campaigners against the plans or the company based in Aberdeen ("Pinnacle visualisations"), to create publicity for their business. Link to comment
Poodler Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Whatever they put there will be shite, modern building are. Especially next to Prov Skene and the college. I guess it's to maximise toon centre ££ from land but at the cost of culture and beauty. What a complete shame. Even with the building site boards still up the area looks 100 times better 3 Link to comment
Bluto10 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Sensible post Poodler min. I disagree about modern buildings though. You need look no further than Rotterdam for what can be done with modern Architecture. The building neednot be a bad thing as such. But a nice wee open space with cafes etc would be a safer bet. Link to comment
spamspamspam Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Sensible post Poodler min. I disagree about modern buildings though. You need look no further than Rotterdam for what can be done with modern Architecture. The building neednot be a bad thing as such. But a nice wee open space with cafes etc would be a safer bet. it may have won an architecture award bluto but some of the buildings there are fucking atrocious. The stacked blocks that are flats with different coloured roofs for starters, boak The main street is smart, some of the docklands are stunning but the marina and the surrounding area is just disgusting. Link to comment
Bluto10 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Seen the new food hall at blaak spammage min? The new train station at drlft and centraal are impressive buildings.They're modern obviously so only time will tell but the look good now. Of course I'm nae saying g all of Rotterdam's nice, that would be a cunting lie; just that theres a lot of decent modern architecture there. And that modernity need not be a bad things g. Link to comment
spamspamspam Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Seen the new food hall at blaak spammage min? The new train station at drlft and centraal are impressive buildings.They're modern obviously so only time will tell but the look good now. Of course I'm nae saying g all of Rotterdam's nice, that would be a cunting lie; just that theres a lot of decent modern architecture there. And that modernity need not be a bad things g. Fraid not, havent been further south than DH for a while. Rotters centraal looked like it was going to be something else when I was last there a couple of years ago, didnt know Delft was getting updated. They totally changed it or just updated the old one? Not disagreeing, some od the centre of weegie and the docks at Dundee are really smart. ACC however only pass big glass boxes or haulage containers stuck on top of roofs. Twats in our council have less taste than a McDonalds 99p burger. Link to comment
Bluto10 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 They're putting the train line underground min and playing with a canal in delft spamnage min.Its been under construction for about 3 years now. Well that's the problem ain't it.Accountability. And a lack of taste. Link to comment
buchanskii Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 We shouldn't block out the best building in the city (Marischal College) with that eyesore. The money would be better spent sprucing up the buildings on union street, giving them some basic maintenance. I was mincing up union street today, dodging beggars and the mutants who stalk the various £1 shops. It depressed the life out of me, had to muster up all my strength not to just leap of union bridge and end it all. Link to comment
ChutneyLove Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Aberdeen City Centre is fucking tragic. Just one long smelly depressing road. That's yer lot.Wise up. Lee Crescent North's a'right min. 1 Link to comment
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