belfast skyline

I was told today that the 29 storey Obel Tower in Belfast City is currently under construction. Is this true? I know it’s not Dublin but I don’t want to create a whole new Belfast thread just to ask one question.

looks as if the Obel building is going ahead in Belfeirste

http://friendsoftheirishenvironment.net/papers/article.php?sid=8519&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

I know that last article says that it will be 26 storeys but I heard it is actually 29.

@Pepsi wrote:

Does anybody have any pictures showing Obel’s progress to date?

There ya go. And very impressive it looks too!

http://www.obel.co.uk/

its just a pity its up the north.

has anyone an update on what is happening with obel? i would love to see some images if it’s under construction.

Foundations set for city tower

Above-ground work on what will be Belfast’s tallest building has got under way. The £75m 28 storey Obel tower, will tower over Donegall Quay when completed in two years time. The development by Karl Properties has been described as an obelisk set in old Belfast. Social Development Minister Margaret Ritchie said the 88.31m high building “will undoubtedly become an iconic landmark for Belfast”.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7469977.stm

what are you people blind?

that is the most banal piece of commercial drivel this side of ohio.

when will people get over these plastic-mullioned glass behemoths dolled up with smatterings of stone clad planar language thrown around the facade. i really wonder sometimes.

I think is great,hopefully it will give Dublin a kick up the ass to get the watchtower started!!

The Watch Tower, the few new buildings in Grand Canal Dock and the Tara Street thing are pretty much our last chances to not be made a show of by our neighbours to the north. I hope the Dublin projects will not dissapear into obscurity like the U2 tower did.