Macken St Bridge – Santiago Calatrava
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48 metres high. A bit higher than the conference centre, I would think.
Certainly, it would appear to be a far more impressive structure than the James Joyce bridge, which continues to suffer from lack of maintenance and a sense of being overblown for the job it has to do.Good research Darkman, really good photos and it’s great to see it in the making. Given the economic downturn etc…I thought this project might have been abandoned too. It will look superb down the docks beside the NCC. Help break up the awful visual monotony.
A harp on it’s side, an apt emblem. I wonder if ye’d you get a tune outta those chords, if ye struck them.
@kefu wrote:
48 metres high. A bit higher than the conference centre, I would think.
Certainly, it would appear to be a far more impressive structure than the James Joyce bridge, which continues to suffer from lack of maintenance and a sense of being overblown for the job it has to do.wow so a 48 meter high suspension bridge will actually be the tallest and most dominant feature in the area. It’s a shame really that there’s no buildings to rival it. It must be lonely at the top.
@kefu wrote:
Certainly, it would appear to be a far more impressive structure than the James Joyce bridge, which continues to suffer from lack of maintenance and a sense of being overblown for the job it has to do.
+1!
Really quite impressive & will make a big impact, i thought the harp concept was a load of nonsense initially but has translated well.
‘… it is new-strung and will be heard’ – or at least walked-on! A metaphor for our times. If I were you lot, I’d ask why it’s being fabricated in NL rather than IRL.
enough with the nativism; we’ll erect their pre-fabricated steel, they’ll buy our viagra, it’s how trade works.
Well, its being built in rotterdam.
There are more pictures available on the SkyscraperCity forum, looks very well. Navigate to the UK/Ireland section.
Umm, what is with the retarded obscuring of links, is there a charter somewhere I am missing???
If I recall correctly from the statement issued by the senior DCC planning offical at the recent public convening of the Special Policy Committee, the bridge will not be open until mid-2010.
Looks great though. Glad to see the black sheathing yokeamabobs at the junction of the cables and the arm disappear in later photographs.
@Pot Noodle wrote:
Is it not a Northern Ireland contractor doing the work
The Contractors are Grahams- Same people who built the Luas William Dargan Bridge in Dundrum
Just saw the bridge moving on Netherlands TV, NOS Journall, it was the final item given what happened yesterday.
http://www.nos.nl/nos/voorpagina/lets hope it fits 😉
thanks for link.
Google translation of the caption:
A huge bridge in its entirety from the Netherlands to Ireland shipped. The bridge is still in Krimpen aan de IJssel, the company Hollandia that the bridge is built. Sunday leaves the colossus of the sea to Dublin. Reporter Bart Kamphuis looks forward to an ingenious operation.
The pontoon about to take it to sea
One thing I notice is that the deck is very wide on the bridge – you could probrably fit 3 vehicle lanes each way on it and still have room.
Don’t know when it will get here but it is going tomorrow so how many days does it take to get here from Holland:confused: It will arrive in May some time. That is all I know. I don’t think we will miss it when it appears;)
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