New Dublin airport control tower by STW
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A control tower by the very definition of its form is something that demands sculptural treatment. This proposal is just a functional control tower with some design stuck on.
While the control tower being proposed does look a bit… cyclopean, it’s the current tower that looks pretty dinky in the photo. The wonder is that they waited though the entire Celtic Tiger to get this built when Bertie could’ve stumped up the dough with a money drugged leer at the millennium.
Anyone gonna object to the height?……..ie An Taisce, the locals, the local crows, etc…
BTW that Edinburgh airport tower looks rather cool and sexy …..leaves poor old STW design in the “Design a basic airport tower” department.
Careful Gregf, witchburners aren’ much appreciated roun’ these parts.
Best be on your way…@GregF wrote:
Anyone gonna object to the height?……..ie An Taisce, the locals, the local crows, etc…
Just a matter of time really, that will probably stall it for a few months.
The Witch Burners Guild has become entirely ceremonial.
Hence the continued survival of Patricia McKenna.
Another lesson in architectural drivel from Scott Tallon Walker. What happened to them?
The water tower at Sillogue has to be worth a mention, designed by Michael Lynas while at Michael Collins & Associates.
Simple, Elegant, Intriguing.
I love it, and its only a water tower.
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Veeery nice.
Drogheda’s one is quite similar, though I’ve never seen it up close.
Not familiar with the Drogheda one myself Graham … I think its the seamless outline of the silogue tower and its symmetry that makes it, the setting sun has great fun with it.
Am I right in thinking that the control box visible today atop Fitzgerald’s old terminal was an add on, with the sleek original visible below appropriately capping his masterpiece ??
@Peter Fitz wrote:
The water tower at Sillogue has to be worth a mention, designed by Michael Lynas while at Michael Collins & Associates.
Simple, Elegant, Intriguing.
I love it, and its only a water tower.Lovely, I agree; but not a useful analogy, the form, the catenary curve, is pertinent to the purpose, containing water, or is my physics not as good as it should be.
notjim wrote:Lovely, I agree]I don’t see why not, notjim?
Scale it up a bit from its current 40m to say 60m, reduce the upper diameter, cap with a round atc room that would need to, and should, overlap the basic structure, utilise the upper third to accommodate a number of floors, admin space, whatever.
The basic form is perfectly adaptable?I think what notjim means, Peter, is that the shape of the tower is by its nature is sculptural. It doesn’t directly compare with the STW control tower insofar as the water tower wasn’t so consciously designed.
Still, the devil is in the detail, which Sillogue handles with considerable skill. And of course water towers are a constant source of curiosity, making even the most utilitarian of towers appear intriguing.
A beautiful 1970s tower by Simo Lumme in Finland.
The forces are different; water pushed at right angles to the surface, air controller push down towards the floor and only exert pressure on the walls in moments of extreme stress and god willing there will be few. What, for the water tower is logical for the control tower is sculptural.
what about this beauty?
@GrahamH wrote:
I think what notjim means, Peter, is that the shape of the tower is by its nature is sculptural. It doesn’t directly compare with the STW control tower insofar as the water tower wasn’t so consciously designed.
Ah yes, point taken gentlemen ]
What, for the water tower is logical for the control tower is sculptural.
[/QUOTE]But the basic outline, ‘the envelope’ to be all farty about it, which clearly in the case of the water tower is dictated by function, and not just some sort of architectural skin, could be just that in the case of an atc, with obvious necessity for an internal supporting structure. We need not have just a box, on a pole.
@alonso wrote:
what about this beauty?
my second favourite alonso 🙂
@DOC wrote:
Would be the tallest building in Ireland!
st johns cathedral in Limerick is 94m high so it wouldnt be the tallest
@GrahamH wrote:
I think what notjim means, Peter, is that the shape of the tower is by its nature is sculptural. It doesn’t directly compare with the STW control tower insofar as the water tower wasn’t so consciously designed.
]and insofar as STW didn’t waste any time on design at all……..
could be worse though
It’s not a control tower. Its a viewing platform…..
Unless they want to Control The Army Air Corps Runways with that tower it doesn’t need to be that tall.
Build one have the size in the middle of the Runways and you’ll never have a problem seeing anything. Wait isn’t the current one already FAR away from the terminal’s as it is, surrounded by the Apron’s and so on?
There’s no need to be at the terminal.
Being out in the open give’s far better views of aproache’s and the ground around them.
@D-A-V-E wrote:
st johns cathedral in Limerick is 94m high so it wouldnt be the tallest
Tallest building I said…not spire! There are lots of structures (spires, masts, chimneys, etc.) in Ireland taller than the propsoed control tower but it would the tallest building.
God, does the height of it even matter? What a tedious discussion; try having an argument about design.
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