Gasometer
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March 8, 2005 at 3:11 pm #707693
Punchbowl
ParticipantHi Guys,
My Girlfreind doesn’t remember the Gasometer from Dublin Docks ( Demolished 1998 ) and I’m trying to get s decent scale picture of it to ‘Wow’ her with. Can anyone help?
Incidentaly, I did an image search on Google and discovered a huge amount of similar structures Europe-wide that have been reimagined. Why couldn’t this of been done for such a landmark here??
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March 8, 2005 at 3:26 pm #751537
Anonymous
InactivePunchbowl, at the very beginning of the Rattle and Hum Video (or DVD) by U2 there is a movement of the camera down the docks. This shows the structure that I think you are referring to (It is actually great in that it shows loads of the docks during the 1980s). It is quite cheap to buy as far as I know, and, if you like their Joshua Tree era, there are some very good live versions of their songs aswell. There is also more contrastable material in the images used for their October album (1981 I think) with how the area looks today.
Phil
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March 8, 2005 at 3:47 pm #751538
urbanisto
ParticipantThere is a reimagining of sorts taking place off Barrow Street. Among the warren of new development there (overdevelopment if ever I saw it) is the building a new apartments and offices within the cast iron gasometer. Looks quite interesting
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March 8, 2005 at 4:05 pm #751539
sw101
Participantthis thing? didn’t realise it was gone.
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March 8, 2005 at 4:07 pm #751540
sw101
Participantfrom fantasy jack’s site…
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March 8, 2005 at 4:20 pm #751541
Anonymous
InactiveGreat shots SW101, but I don’t think that is what Punchbowl is referring to. Those shots are of the Gasometer referred to by StephenC that now has the ‘Gasworks’ apartments being built within it. I think the one Punchbowl is referring to was a great big white structure that used to be beside the south quays of the Liffey.
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March 8, 2005 at 4:35 pm #751542
sw101
Participantah. i’ll go back to my cave so.
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March 8, 2005 at 4:37 pm #751543
Anonymous
InactiveI was just relieved you didn’t slag me about my music tastes again! 🙂
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March 8, 2005 at 4:39 pm #751544
sw101
Participant@phil wrote:
I was just relieved you didn’t slag me about my music tastes again! 🙂
nah, i’ll just stick to “you’re so bleedin old, remembering stuff long gone”.
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March 8, 2005 at 4:53 pm #751545
Paul Clerkin
KeymasterHmmm the Gasometer on John ROgersons Quay
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March 8, 2005 at 4:55 pm #751546
Rory W
ParticipantIts in the right hand side of this picture
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March 8, 2005 at 5:12 pm #751547
Punchbowl
ParticipantI find it amazing that a lot of people can’t recall this ‘ building ‘. It was fairly tall ( Moreso than Liberty Hall? ) and definately visible from any viewpoint along the Quays.
It pops up quite a bit on old 80’s shows ( Perhaps this was to create the illusion of a high rise city? ) and most Shay Healy related programmes.
Phils Picture doesn’t really give you a true sense of the size of it… Or am I just remembering it too fondly??
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March 8, 2005 at 5:18 pm #751548
Anonymous
Inactive@Punchbowl wrote:
I find it amazing that a lot of people can’t recall this ‘ building ‘. It was fairly tall ( Moreso than Liberty Hall? ) and definately visible from any viewpoint along the Quays.
It pops up quite a bit on old 80’s shows ( Perhaps this was to create the illusion of a high rise city? ) and most Shay Healy related programmes.
Phils Picture doesn’t really give you a true sense of the size of it… Or am I just remembering it too fondly??
Its RoryWs picture.
I think SW101 is such a young pup that he wasnt around in the 80s to remember it! 🙂 I however, being so old, remember its dominant presence quite well. However, the fact that it was around up as far as 1998 makes it incredible that people have forgotten it so quickly.
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March 8, 2005 at 6:24 pm #751549
Paul Clerkin
KeymasterI loved the quays way back in the 70s early 80s. My father was a bike dealer and Raleigh Ireland had a factory on Hanover Quay so we’d be in Dublin fairly regularly – alway remember the last of the cranes and the gasometer…
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March 8, 2005 at 6:39 pm #751550
GrahamH
ParticipantI barely remember it in ‘real life’ too 😮
I’ve a pic of it here in a book, it’s at least 10 storeys anyway. When was it built and what was it used for – a modern version of the Victorian holding tank before natural gas?
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March 8, 2005 at 6:40 pm #751551
Rory W
Participant@Paul Clerkin wrote:
I loved the quays way back in the 70s early 80s. My father was a bike dealer and Raleigh Ireland had a factory on Hanover Quay so we’d be in Dublin fairly regularly – alway remember the last of the cranes and the gasometer…
I used to love the way you’d pass under the loop line bridge and you were into another world beyond the Dart line. It acted as such a barrier as if to say “no shopping or offices beyond – ships and warehouses only”
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March 8, 2005 at 6:42 pm #751552
Anonymous
Inactive@Rory W wrote:
I used to love the way you’d pass under the loop line bridge and you were into another world beyond the Dart line. It acted as such a barrier as if to say “no shopping or offices beyond – ships and warehouses only”
I still think it is like a barrier separating two worlds. You can really feel a different aura once you pass under that bridge. There seems to be more space or something. It is strange.
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March 8, 2005 at 7:03 pm #751553
GrahamH
ParticipantIt’s partially to do with the bridge itself I think – that time old effect used by architects to accustom you to large indoor spaces; when you emerge from under the bridge you are kind of fooled into believing the place to be much ’emptier’.
But certainly there’s also a real contrast, particularly beyond City Quay or Custom House Quay on the other side, so much so that it’s so strange to suddenly see the 50s flats out at the Grand Canal Basin there, looking like in the middle of nowhere -
March 8, 2005 at 11:20 pm #751554
Devin
ParticipantThe Conference Centre of the Spencer Dock scheme Mark 1 was apparently inspired by the Gasometer……the Gasometer tipping over to reveal the new docklands……how inspired can you get?! :rolleyes:
To my knowledge it was taken down in 1993.
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March 8, 2005 at 11:25 pm #751555
Paul Clerkin
Keymasteryeah 1993 – as I was working on the top floor of a southern Merrion Square house and you could see the welders cuting up the top level….
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March 8, 2005 at 11:41 pm #751556
Anonymous
Participant@Paul Clerkin wrote:
yeah 1993 – as I was working on the top floor of a southern Merrion Square house and you could see the welders cuting up the top level….
Nice Image Devin,
1993 tallies for me as well, I was on the site in 1997 and all that was left was the surviving chimney a couple buildings and some industrial plant that looked like something out of a frankenstine shoot.
Punchbowl
There is a really good replica print of the Guinness Barge ‘The Malahide’ being unloaded at the site of Stack A, the Gasometer takes up about 25% of the background, it is about 28 x 16 send me a personnal message and I’ll get you one
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March 9, 2005 at 12:02 am #751557
Anonymous
InactiveI agree. That image is really excellent Devin. Now it makes more sense that people don’t remember it as much if it was taken down in 1993
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March 9, 2005 at 11:44 pm #751558
GrahamH
ParticipantWow, what a fantastic picture. It doesn’t even look real – like one of those touristy photomontages from the 50s 🙂
That tank clearly was massive!
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March 10, 2005 at 6:22 am #751559
Devin
ParticipantAs you might have worked out, the pic is a telephoto view from the top of the Guinness Storehouse (but before the sky bar obviously). It’s on the cover of an old An T report.
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March 10, 2005 at 6:25 am #751560
Paul Clerkin
Keymasteryou cannot beat that foreshortening effect of a large telephoto
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March 10, 2005 at 6:34 am #751561
Devin
Participantesp. where there’s a concentration of towers & spires & things.
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March 10, 2005 at 11:39 am #751562
bigjoe
Participantthe other gasometer thingy on shelbourne road that they are turning into apartmetns has begun getting its windows fitted. looks really good. well worth checking out.
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March 10, 2005 at 11:42 am #751563
Punchbowl
ParticipantThanks all for the pics and interesting discussion. I previously believed it was demolished in 98 as it was my second stint in College and I’d come back from Dundalk one weekend to discover it had disappeared, but alas, I was also in College in 1993 so that does make sense.
I wonder if the whole structure could of been retained for some cultural use? I see across the net similar ones are being re-imagined and used daily. I suppose 1993 is a long time ago in terms of civic planning here though.
Another question. Whats there now?
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March 10, 2005 at 4:28 pm #751564
Paul Clerkin
Keymasteri liked the suggestion at the time that it be painted up to resemble a giant pint of guinness….
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March 10, 2005 at 11:22 pm #751565
GrahamH
ParticipantYou’d have to pad it out a bit with foam or something – lots of foam 😀
Anyone know how tall it was, and when it was built?
Please don’t say it has the honour of being the tallest building ever built in Dublin – wouldn’t surprise me :rolleyes: -
March 11, 2005 at 3:08 am #751566
Devin
ParticipantIt sat on the horizon on the Georgian Mile as well.
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March 11, 2005 at 3:31 am #751567
GrahamH
ParticipantFlippin heck – you learn something new every day!
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March 11, 2005 at 6:43 am #751568
jackwade
Participant😀 Just Imagine the uproar from An Taisce and The Irish Georgian Society if that was proposed today!
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March 11, 2005 at 11:06 am #751569
millennium
ParticipantThe structure that you are referring to was known as the Gasholder. The Gasometer is the other one that is currently being converted to accommodation.
The Gasholder had a subroof which went up and down within the structure depending on the amount of gas within. The operators used to keep a canary in a cage (just like in the mines) in the void between the two roofs to monitor gas leakage.
An external lift ran up outside the structure to give access to the roof and it was from this roof that movies of the ferries coming in to the north wall were used in the 1960s (?) film “Rooney-O”.
It says something for the (lack of) townplanning of the day that they allowed it to be constructed at the end of the Fitzwilliam St. vista but I think you would have seen the Kevin Roche Conference centre from this vista also ( the Conference Centre building bore a striking resemblance to a Dyson vacuum cleaner!) -
March 11, 2005 at 11:24 am #751570
Anonymous
Inactive@millennium wrote:
It says something for the (lack of) townplanning of the day that they allowed it to be constructed at the end of the Fitzwilliam St. vista but I think you would have seen the Kevin Roche Conference centre from this vista also ( the Conference Centre building bore a striking resemblance to a Dyson vacuum cleaner!)
That’s right, and it was one of the biggest arguments against it as far as I remember. Although I must say it reminded me more of R2D2 from Star Wars than a Dyson!
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March 11, 2005 at 2:17 pm #751571
Anonymous
ParticipantI wonder if there is a correlation between the elimination of the gasometer and the rapid rise in Georgian offices prices as a proportion of new office prices in the late 1990’s. I cannot imagine the Fitzwilliam kilometre with that yoke overhanging the Merrion Square end of it.
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March 21, 2005 at 2:06 pm #751572
Andrew Duffy
ParticipantThere’s an aerial pic here:
http://www.murrayolaoire.com/urban/projects/dublin_docklands/index.html
It was very big.
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March 21, 2005 at 3:11 pm #751573
Anonymous
ParticipantAnd not quite as shapely as their creation for the end of Sir John Rogersons Quay
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November 23, 2008 at 3:19 pm #751574
Mimirz
ParticipantHI, im new to the forum and im very interested in this project.
Would anyone have the name of the company that sandblasted the towers before construction started? I think it was a scottish company
Cheers
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