Millenium Spike

There’s some info at :

http://www.dublincorp.ie/planning/biography2.html

JJ

Here’s the original info after the Spike was announced:
http://www.archeire.com/onsite/spike/index.html

Some news articles:
http://www.archeire.com/news/archives.cgi?f=keyword&keywords=spike

Honestly does no-one use a search facility anymore 😉

Mmmm, soaring over O’Connell Street by September, I don’t think so, maybe Sept 2003. Nice foundations though!

yeh, what is going on??

i dunno, gregf said on another post that a strike in france where the steel was being rolled was holding the whole thing up so i guess thats the reason for the delay…

…guess they’ll need a pretty tall crane while putting it in place seing as its supposed to be twice the height of liberty hall ?

Whenever you walk past they are lowering stuff into the hole. I think they made the hole too deep and when they are ready only the last 10 metres will be sticking up. In retrospect it is a pity we didn’t choose Michael O’Nuallain’s recreation of the Millenium Falcon and togetehr with the long library Dublin could be a center of Star Wars tourism, if there is such a thing.

There is of course a center of Star Wars tourism – Tunisia. And on an architectural theme too – check out the Troglodyte houses in Mamata and the grannary at Ksar Hadada.
http://www.toysrgus.com/travel/tunisia.html
I think these are totaly unique to Tunisia. And they look great on film too.