Boyne River Bridge + Architectural Lighting

Originally posted by Whatsup
What do you guys think of the Boyne River Bridge? I must say it looks very impressive and from what little I have seen, wounderfully lit at night.

Any good photos about? Dont drive that way often. I found:
http://www.nra.ie/News/NewsAnnouncements/d801.HTML.html

certainly dramatic….

Feck Calatrava, this bridge is the real deal…

i like the bridge, but it’s very similar looking to the new Luas bridge in Dundrum. It would have been great to have two completely different ‘landmark’ bridges being built rather than just two copys of each other.

Off course, now i will probably get replies saying “what, are you blind? they’re COMPLETELY different to each other!”

Hello Wassup

Try and do some stage design – you’d learn loads about lighting

You can’t really do much with the appearance of a cable-stayed bridge. The three in Ireland all look very similar…

… however, the plan for the Macken Street cable-stayed bridge is very nice, so don’t feck Calatrava just yet (whatever fecking somebody involves – I’m not sure I want to know).

Incidentally, the third cable-stayed bridge is the footbridge over the M50 at knocklyon:

http://www.structurae.de/en/structures/data/str04548.php

Ah I’m sure the Calatravas will be grand when they’re finished. My point was, the Boyne bridge is a stunning piece of engineering, a true landmark, but it hasn’t got anything like the same attention. The Irish Times didn’t even run a picture of it when it opened yesterday!
Has anyone seen it up close? It must be the biggest bridge in Ireland.

I wouldn’t compare the Blackhall Place bridge with the Boyne bridge either. But the proposed Macken Street bridge is an example of a “different-looking” cable-stayed bridge. It’s about the same scale (80m) as the LUAS bridge at Taney aswell.

Nobody was comparing it to the bridge at blackhall place, i meant the LUAS bridge at taney.

Considering architectural lighting dosn’t even exist in this country outside of Government Bldgs, there’ll be a hell of a lot of work for anyone remotely qualified.

Whatsup …. dug up these links from an old posting of mine here… not sure if they work but the website still exists & on some of their online magzines there is some explanations of outdoor lighting schemes – do & don’ts etc.

http://www.eur.lighting.philips.com/ilr/ilr982/return.shtml
http://www.eur.lighting.philips.com/ilr/ilr982/public.shtml
http://www.eur.lighting.philips.com/ilr/ilr982/tool.shtml
http://www.eur.lighting.philips.com/ilr/ilr982/square.shtml

ilr stands for ‘international lighting review’ i think

Similarities between Taney and Boyne Bridges – Boyne bridge is about 4 times the size of the Taney bridge. Althogh both very impressive, the Boyne bridge is just fantastic – and Drogheda has lost a most of its thru traffic which is great.

Bridge looks great in the distance as you approach from the Slane/Drogheda Road.

As for Frazer Agnew’s cutural vandalism comment – hes just annoyed that poor Mick down south can get to his border quicker, it’s well enough away from the battle of the boyne site (not that there is a vast amount to see there). Akin to someone complaining about a development in Fairview damaging the Battle of Clontarf site!

Speaking of impressive bridges, anyone care to post pics/ links of favourite bridges around the country?

i always loved the Foyle bridge in Derry, one of two landmark bridges in the city.

http://www.graham.co.uk/new/projects/Foyle%20Bridge,%20Londondery.htm

Originally posted by Rory W
As for Frazer Agnew’s cutural vandalism comment – hes just annoyed that poor Mick down south can get to his border quicker, it’s well enough away from the battle of the boyne site (not that there is a vast amount to see there). Akin to someone complaining about a development in Fairview damaging the Battle of Clontarf site!

Of course, it begs the question, why were they there in the first place? Will it pacify them? Will it bring a united Ireland closer (hopefully not)? Why bother?

I’d have thought that there were more suitable people from the Republic who should have been there in lieu of those moaners.

Was on the new Boyne Bridge & motorway today, what impressed me most was in fact the buildings made out of rubble stone at the main toll plaza – which are very impressive, obviously influenced by nearby Newgrange, very contemporary yet inspired by ‘the old’.

All of the motorway furniture, lamposts, railings, etc are all also impressive, very French and European, very streamlined etc.

has anybody got info on more spectacular bridges planned for the future in ireland? esp. on the proposed motorways, eg. the M3