Dublin Metropolis – Artist’s Impression
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Presenting Dublin Metropolis. What do you think? Will Dublin ever grow upwards?
edit: Original photo by FJP
Some other random photos.
Ulster Bank from Liberty Hall – I think that this building should have been a lot taller but located in the docklands. This picture show the building with 23 floors – it has great potential.
A very ugly Liberty Hall with 23 floors.
Ulster Bank giving it the middle finger – A central 23 floor tower surrounded by smaller 15 floor towers – a very attractive high-rise in my opinion.
Central Bank from Dame St – One of my favorite buildings in present Dublin (at its current height) but a massive eye sore in the skyline with 20 floors – the daunting central bank.
A tall and weathered Central Bank from the Quays.
O’Connell Bridge House with 23 floors (before the facelift).Originally posted by ro_G
whatever happened to fjp?What do you mean? Last I checked he was alive and well.
Will a massive bend in the Liffey be part and parcel of this utopian dream?
Originally posted by phil
Will a massive bend in the Liffey be part and parcel of this utopian dream?:confused: It was taken with a Pano lense wide shot.
You may wish to start here:
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/V/Vision.html
I suggest that the government move the ‘National Infrastructure Bill’ eliminate all sources of objector and proceed to bend the Liffey.
Originally posted by Diaspora
I suggest that the government move the ‘National Infrastructure Bill’ eliminate all sources of objector and proceed to bend the Liffey.I suggest that the goverment change the Laws of Physics and force all lenses to magically bend light. 😉
Originally posted by Morlan
:confused: It was taken with a Pano lense wide shot.
I realised that;)
I think that the concept was interesting, but it would be easier to imagine the reality of it if the ‘pano lense wide shot’ was not used!Thanks
Phil
That image is really disturbing. Maybe it’s the thought of Apollo and Hawkins suddenly gaining twenty stories each…
Originally posted by Morlan
You may wish to start here:
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/V/Vision.html
I suggest you have a look here:
http://www.commonsensescience.org/phil.htm – 6k
All the best
Phil
😀Originally posted by phil
I realised that;)
I think that the concept was interesting, but it would be easier to imagine the reality of it if the ‘pano lense wide shot’ was not used!Thanks
Phil
Yes, gathered that. 🙂 Actually I just made that up (Pano lense wide shot) but it’s certainly some sort of wide angled wizardry.
If I cut the image into two would you be happier?
Originally posted by phil
I suggest you have a look here:
http://www.commonsensescience.org/phil.htm – 6k
All the best
Phil
😀Great! Thanks for that. I printed it out just so I could feck it in the bin. 🙂
Morlan,
how long did you spend doing that image?Sadly that’s probably the kind of highrise we’d get in Dublin – overblown domestic scale detailing, massing and materials. Ew.
I still can’t believe the SOM scheme (pedestrian as it was) got ditched for those four little pointy-hat excrescences.
Originally posted by phil
Morlan,
how long did you spend doing that image?Friday lunch break. You think it’s a complete waste of time don’t you?
No, I don’t think that. As I said I like the concept but I found slightly misleading because of the camera angle. I personally invision any major high rise which might eventually happen in this city as happening around the pigeon house in an era when it is no longer a power station and the two chimneys are preserved as a reminder of the past etc etc. I know it is a completely of the wall idea, but it is just a thought.
Originally posted by phil
No, I don’t think that. As I said I like the concept but I found slightly misleading because of the camera angle. I personally invision any major high rise which might eventually happen in this city as happening around the pigeon house in an era when it is no longer a power station and the two chimneys are preserved as a reminder of the past etc etc. I know it is a completely of the wall idea, but it is just a thought.No your right! I get slightly frustrated with the above image because I know that I’ll never live to see a high rise Dublin 😮
I guess all I can do is dream – the above is a product of that. 🙂
Originally posted by phil
the pigeon house in an era when it is no longer a power station and the two chimneys are preserved as a reminder of the past etc etc. I know it is a completely of the wall idea, but it is just a thought.I’m sure that people who argued that Battersea power station would one day be a monument to deco were equally ‘mad’ once.
It won’t happen today or tomorrow but it will happen. 🙂
I don’t think that it was a waste of time but some of the buildings selected for elevation were a bit suspect .
The Ballast House on Aston Quay and Appollo House spring to mind.
An interesting exercise in the possible with modern technology. 😉
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