belfast skyline
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@cgcsb wrote:
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.
I opened this thread thinking that it might be a relief from much of the ‘I want my city to have highrise so that we can then conclude it is a better place than another city’ mentality that presently dominates many of the Dublin threads. Unfortunately I am mistaken.
@phil wrote:
I opened this thread thinking that it might be a relief from much of the ‘I want my city to have highrise so that we can then conclude it is a better place than another city’ mentality that presently dominates many of the Dublin threads. Unfortunately I am mistaken.
Well said!!Unfortunately if you like architecture and your from Dublin, its a disease!!People are just very frustrated at the DDA’s incompetence
Wow, i never realised Belfast had so many interesting developments going on at the moment, just found this pics.
Obel Tower:
The Boat:
The Arc:
Lanyan Towers:
The soloist:
I must admit i’m extremely jelious :):)
Yeah there are some major crimes on display here to enjoy it you have to wait until it rains and gets dark then you can pretend you are in bladerunner Los Angeles or Gotham City but you need a good imagination! 🙂
Hey
Does anybody know what year Windsor House was built and who built it? I can never find that info. Actually, for the tallest building on this Island there is very little known about Windsor House!
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Windsor house is now the second tallest building on the island after Elysian, Cork. I notice that Belfast didn’t get as much benefit from the boom as cities in the Republic did. There’s still a large amount of surface car parks in the city centre and aside from the kremlin, Donegal street is empty and very poorly illuminated at night. Also alot of the street paving, pedestrian crossings and street lights are very 80’s in their design. Almost retro
🙂 @cgcsb wrote:
Windsor house is now the second tallest building on the island after Elysian, Cork. I notice that Belfast didn’t get as much benefit from the boom as cities in the Republic did. There’s still a large amount of surface car parks in the city centre and aside from the kremlin, Donegal street is empty and very poorly illuminated at night. Also alot of the street paving, pedestrian crossings and street lights are very 80’s in their design. Almost retro
🙂 I think Elysian is 71m to the roof. The Spire brings it to 81:)…..can we count those???
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Some recent twilight shots.
interesting to see how the introduction of these two vertical elements will impact the surrounding area
Whats the other building to the left of the picture?Is that part of the obel development or is it something else?
thobel consists of the tower element and a 5 or 6 floor lowrise the building in the left background with the red neon and reflecto glass is the royal mail building further along to the left, set back from the quay is the new ” Boat” development.
@cgcsb wrote:
I thought the spire was always counted, is it not?
I was always under the impression that buildings (for the purpose of tallest) were counted to roof height. Now I know the famous stories regarding the Spire on the Chrysler Building being kept secret until the last minute, so it could capture the Worlds tallest building title. On the other hand, I have seen many instances when Spires and even television towers are regarded as structures rather then buildings:)
Anyway, I am going off topic…….back to my question…..does anyone know when WindsorHouse was built and by whom?? I just can’t find this info anywhere:))
If you are going to include Ariels and masts then this is the tallest structure in Ireland
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