Alto Vetro, grand canal docks, dublin
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OMG! – an actual lift shaft going up! It’s so beautiful *tear*
Is that as high as the lift shaft is gonna go?
From the pics it doesn’t look like 16 floors :-
when montevetro is finsihed where will it come in terms of dublins tallest buildings? just short of liberty hall but will it be taller than canary dwarf?
also was racking my brains last night to think of what order dublins 10 tallest built/under construction would come in.anyone any ideas.
i had liberty hall,montevetro,canary dwarf,altovetro,millenium tower,santry cross but then i wasnt sure.the vantage apartments at central park seem high and also 2 high lift shafts can be seen from the M50 in sandyford.would o connell bridge house,central bank,quinn building in blanch make it? theres also a few apartment blocks round 10-12 stories e.g. cork st, tallaght beside the square, hsq, old chocolate factory kilmainham and at the charlestown centre off the m50.anyone able to hazard a guess/provide a list by height??
Alonso, are you giving GrahamH a run for his exhaustive Dublin photography money? 😉
Thanks for the pics. I DARTed past the docks for four years when going to UCD so the updates are much appreciated.@cgcsb wrote:
fair play to them. Does aqua have permission yet? can’t wait to see them coming out of the ground.
I’m curious about this too. Does anyone know of the planning status of aqua vetro?
@df1711 wrote:
.the vantage apartments at central park seem high and also 2 high lift shafts can be seen from the M50 in sandyford.
a few crap pics from inside the car as I was goin past a few weeks ago
@fergalr wrote:
Alonso, are you giving GrahamH a run for his exhaustive Dublin photography money? 😉
Thanks for the pics. I DARTed past the docks for four years when going to UCD so the updates are much appreciated.🙂
nah I wouldn’t dare even try challenging Graham’s unimpeachable standing on archiseek…. Only developments within 15 minutes of my couch interest my camera on a day off!!!!!Oh you guys!
*flaps hand gayly*
Hey, any picture that informs works in my book alonso.
What tends to be most disappointing about slab blocks such as these is their arbitrary character; their repetitive, modular make-up is such as to make their final height, and thus the overall design, somewhat meaningless. Conversely however, the final arrived-at height does insidiously set in bricks and mortar (or should that be steel and glass) the contemporary economics of the building’s construction and/or the planning ethos of the age – injecting some modicum of interest.
I agree that the stark limestone cladding and glazing will give this neo-International Style (?) a more palatable twist.
Cheers for the pics.
I think you knocked the no parking sign over 😉
We need more pics,its been about two weeks already:D:D
I saw the core as i was passing the Customs house today, it’s making an impression in the skyline, already well above Alto Vetro and but i am guessing that the core has reached its highest level now
I was under the impression that this was 63m high? Where did I read that, or am I making things up :confused: And is there a specified height for aqua, if not what are the guesses from the pros eh?
from Baggot St. Bridge.
If they stopped now, I wouldn’t have a problem with it!
@ihateawake wrote:
I was under the impression that this was 63m high? Where did I read that, or am I making things up :confused: And is there a specified height for aqua, if not what are the guesses from the pros eh?
There aren’t many good pictures,but it looks about 22 or 24 storys tall, which is about 80 to 85 metres
@ihateawake wrote:
I was under the impression that this was 63m high? Where did I read that, or am I making things up :confused: And is there a specified height for aqua, if not what are the guesses from the pros eh?
Yes! I read the exact same figure. I even posted it here a few weeks ago. I also tried working out the floor to ceiling heights….at 16 floors, office space usually has a clearance of about 4 metres. That would make it 64m. Even, at 15 floors (because I have seen different floor counts quoted) it would be 60m with probably another couple of metres for double height lobby/entrance.
This was always touted as the new tallest in Dublin, eclipsing Liberty Hall at 60m. I have a strange suspicion that ABP randonly lopped one or two floors off (somewhere in the middle, as they frequently and bizarrely do). 60m seems to be a psychological barrier!
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@rob mc wrote:
There aren’t many good pictures,but it looks about 22 or 24 storys tall, which is about 80 to 85 metres
Those lift shafts can be very deceiving. I remember, watching a construction along the Luas line at Black Horse, it looked 12/13 floors….turns out it was 8!
@thebig C wrote:
Those lift shafts can be very deceiving. I remember, watching a construction along the Luas line at Black Horse, it looked 12/13 floors….turns out it was 8!
Yea i know what you mean,but i think this is the best picture of it:
It shows it alongside monte making it easier to see the size difference,and to be honest it looks a damn size bigger. Should make a big impression on the skyline and finaly put that 60m barrier to rest 😀
Liberty Hall is 59m tall. So yes I would definitely agree that there is a barrier. What height is the Milenium Tower in The grand canal dock? surely it’s about the same?
Aqua will be 24 floors with a double height ground floor so possibly 90m
Is this the ‘Get a Life’ thread?
@rob mc wrote:
Yea i know what you mean,but i think this is the best picture of it:
It shows it alongside monte making it easier to see the size difference,and to be honest it looks a damn size bigger. Should make a big impression on the skyline and finaly put that 60m barrier to rest 😀
Yeah, it looks good in that picture……as long as the glazing/cladding doesn’t change during construction. Which it has a habit of doing….just look at the Hotel the other side of the dock:)
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