Dublin skyline
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@Morlan wrote:
Yeah, that’s well gone. The several hundred LEDs at the top now act as an aviation beacon, as does that annoying strip of light half way up – it ruins the ‘linierness’ of the spire.
i think its a real pity the spire is not flood lite along its lenght.. it would look fantastic at night instead of a light in in the middle and those leds at the top.. what do you think?
It’s supposed to be done – it was intended from the very beginning.
Maybe the CC are just waiting for the rest of O’Connell St to be finished. Hopefully – it would look spectacular.it would look spectacular. that sounds like a great idea.
Sorry for not following the tread but going back to the title – i work in Grand Canal Plaza (3rd floor) and have noticed a lot of contruction in the last 2 weeks – it seems to have sprung up above the 5 story barrier suddenly. The more interesting is a 10+ story block on the northside of the river between spencer dock and the point which i pass every day. This building is quite bulky and is gaining height rapidly, does anyone know what it is? I thought it might be Merchant’s gate but i thought that was set back further from the river…
it is probably the spencer dock development itself. check out http://www.spencerdock.ie for details. from what i can tell that particular development will only be 11 (ish) storeys in height. it’s a shame they didn’t decide to go higher there. 20 storeys would be nice.
Keen,
Totally true about the heights of current stuff. It’s fashionable around here to say ‘the docklands are a wasted opportunity’ and ‘the DDDA blew it’ etc. etc., and that’s in reference to the low heights of the IFSC extension, and while it’s true, it’s old hat now…all completed years ago. There’s a vast area under development at the moment in the south docks (and also Spencer Dock on the north), bigger than the whole of the north docks developed to date, and I think they have got the heights spot on here – 8 to 10 storeys. In fact I would go so far as to say I don’t think the biggest height fetishists on Archiseek could say these buildings (as a standard from where any taller buildings will spring) are too low. In any case you’re into problems with shadowing and plot ratio if you go any taller, as has been covered before.Merchants Gate? That’ll be the day.
if built merchant’s gate would be quite tall. it would be taller than anything we have right now in dublin. i heard someone say 19 storeys at 64 meters… anything approved at that height or higher seems to be on hold. i don’t know why. why aren’t they built shortly after approval? why all the delays i wonder?
It’s certainly all go on the south bank:
So much so it’s difficult to make much out – just a morass of concrete at the minute.
The more interesting is a 10+ story block on the northside of the river between spencer dock and the point which i pass every day.
Thats the first phase of the Treasury Holdings project. Its being built for PWC (although they won’t own it)
http://www.treasuryholdings.ie/development/project_detail.asp?id=35&category=Office&cat=3
@Graham Hickey wrote:
It’s certainly all go on the south bank:
So much so it’s difficult to make much out – just a morass of concrete at the minute.
seems like the cranes will be the highest structures Dublin will ever probably see, the way things are going
@Aidan wrote:
Thats the first phase of the Treasury Holdings project. Its being built for PWC (although they won’t own it)
http://www.treasuryholdings.ie/development/project_detail.asp?id=35&category=Office&cat=3
Going to that link has really depressed me – I’d forgotten just how abysmal the Spencer Dock development is going to be….
My god, those builds planned for Spencer Dock look atrocious in the image. That can hardly be how the finished scheme will look. It’s just more of the the same Scott Tallon Walker shit that blights the docks already. Surely the DDDA did’nt approve of this. Canary Wharf that was built in London in the 1980’s is a far superiour development! We are so behind in the times.
The large black phallic shape looking thing sticking its ugly head up in the right of the photo is a most singular erection. Between that and the Spike in O’Connell St., it seems that Dublin will be able to boast of a lot of undesireable pricks.
@Keen wrote:
Sorry for not following the tread but going back to the title – i work in Grand Canal Plaza (3rd floor) and have noticed a lot of contruction in the last 2 weeks – it seems to have sprung up above the 5 story barrier suddenly. The more interesting is a 10+ story block on the northside of the river between spencer dock and the point which i pass every day. This building is quite bulky and is gaining height rapidly, does anyone know what it is? I thought it might be Merchant’s gate but i thought that was set back further from the river…
The building between Spencer Dock and the Point is Castleforbes Square, mix of apartments and office space reaching about 14 floors at the castleforbes, sherrif st. entrance. Apt. went on sale a couple of weeks ago.
it is all go everywhere but the buildings pictured above are not really highrise. i have lost count at the amount of proper highrises that are approved yet where are they? i think that the cranes will be as close as we get. we have all heard about the u2 tower and heuston gate. they are meant to be starting construction on those in 2007 according to other people on this site. if everything was to go to plan we would have had several other highrises in dublin by now either under construction or in full use. they could have put up several but the chance of that seems to be running out now. i can’t help thinking that they will all go the way of the southbank tower. Montevetro and alto vetro should be well under construction by now but they aren’t and that is just the tip of the iceberg.
i contacted royal canal park through their werbsite to ask about the proposed highrise which is not under construction. i said that i would be very interested in living in such a tall building but they told me that they had no info on that one. i see that they have practically built everything else at royal canal park but not the highrise. it just goes to show that there is a delay with that highrise too.
Flat Earth Society…….. 🙂
@alpha wrote:
if built merchant’s gate would be quite tall. it would be taller than anything we have right now in dublin. i heard someone say 19 storeys at 64 meters… anything approved at that height or higher seems to be on hold. i don’t know why. why aren’t they built shortly after approval? why all the delays i wonder?
Merchant’s Gate is going on a site which was occupied by a Brickyard up until about a month ago, it’s also surrounded on two sides by road works which are widening East Wall road in preperation for the Port Tunnel. These works will take up two Q2 ’06 so I wouldn’t be expecting any movement on Merchants Gate before then.
It took 20 years of landbanking to acquire the whole site. With the movement in property prices in generally (and especially East Wall) I’m sure the developers are happy to take their time.
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