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@Morlan wrote:
Yes, great and all, that Ireland is building its first tower. But need I remind you what it looks like?
It’s pretty horrendous.. top heavy, bland.. etc.
And we can’t rule out that the tower will be halved in height, or scrapped altogether, due to the recession, regardless of how high the lift shaft is.
Lol! Might end up looking like its stumpy splay-top counterpart in Rotterdam:
@Morlan wrote:
Yes, great and all, that Ireland is building its first tower. But need I remind you what it looks like?
It’s pretty horrendous.. top heavy, bland.. etc.
And we can’t rule out that the tower will be halved in height, or scrapped altogether, due to the recession, regardless of how high the lift shaft is.
Morlan ffs keep up with the times man! Thats no longer the design! Seriously a better design was chosen and like it or not this will be the only skyscraper of the Celtic Tiger era so you would be best served getting behind it and not posting images of what wont be built.
On the shafts – Crosbie seems an ambitous guy but if I were him I would not go ahead with a residential tower atm. The property market is in freefall. However if Crosbie has the balls (and I hope he does) to go ahead with it then fair play. At least he has a vision and guts.
The tower is to be completed in 2009 – they would want to have started!
Yeah Morlan – get with it! First people are talking down the economy, and now they’re talking our towers out of extinction. It’s simply unacceptable. All hail the tower.
😮 Doh, and I’ve even seen that new design and commented on it before.
I’ll sit in the corner with my pipe and slippers. 🙂
lol I thought they did not have permission for the advertising……..
tribune.ie
Crosbie in row over illegal advertising at Point
DUBLIN City Council is taking legal action against concert promoter and developer Harry Crosbie over an unauthorised advertising structure at the Point Theatre site on North Wall Quay in Dublin 1. Crosbie is redeveloping the Point and surrounding land to include an enlarged concert venue, a skyscraper dubbed The Watchtower, apartments, a shopping centre and a hotel.On the site he erected a structure comprising six plywood-clad shipping containers which are stack*ed on top of one another and then braced to two more shipping containers on the ground. Crosbie has used the ads for lighthearted publicity, includ*ing claiming Elvis would play the reopened venue and referring to Pope Benedict XVI as a rock god.
Dublin City Council served an enforcement notice on the site on 18 February “requiring the removal of the unauthorised advertising sign”, a spokeswoman for the council said. The notice was not removed within the required timeframe and the council then initiated legal proceedings.
The council also investigated Crosbie for alleged breaches of working hours at the Point Depot site. A condition of the planning permission was that construction was confined to 8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday and from 8am to 2pm on Saturdays. No construction was allowed on Sundays and public holidays, unless otherwise agreed. A spokeswoman for the council said a warning letter under Section 152 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 was issued to the owner/developer of the site on 24 January but inspections at the site yielded “no evidence of any breaches of working hours”. “The site continues to be monitored,” the spokeswoman said.
Neil Callanan
June 22, 2008
I can confirm that the tower is definitly under construction. they are still below ground (3 stories in total), but it is possible that they may stop at ground level due to the current economic climate.
@Overworked wrote:
I can confirm that the tower is definitly under construction. they are still below ground (3 stories in total), but it is possible that they may stop at ground level due to the current economic climate.
I would not be supprised. Did it look like they were working on it?
Overworked, have you seen the tower under construction with your own eyes? If the current economic climate was a reason for the delay, why wouldn’t they have dissasembled the underground lift shaft by now?
I don’t mean to be smart, but they’ve already constructed some of the shaft, and you don’t”disassemble” that kind of thing, short of destroying it completely. Also I know people on the job, that’s the reason I was saying it has definitely begun construction.
T’would be absolutely sickening if they had to stop at ground level.What an incredible waste of time and money.And a really big hole left in the ground!!!!!cgcsb, nothing would surprise me. The developer of Beacon South in Sandyford has jacked it in and stuck a tarpolin over the front of it
Alot of appartment blocks under construction around Dublin atm where the workers just walked off site and left them half built. Looks very depressing.
Herald.ie
CITY SKYSCRAPER HEADING UP
By -Andrew Phelan
Friday July 11 2008
THE property market may be collapsing but work on raising Ireland’s first residential skyscraper has got underway.
Businessman Harry Crosbie is pressing ahead with his ambitious 32 -storey “Watchtower”, which is beginning to emerge from its foundations at the Point Depot.
Construction of the 120-metre tower is expected to take two years.
When complete, it will be one of the centrepieces of the €850 million Point Village scheme, which includes the all-new, renamed O2 Arena.
The skyscraper tower will be made up mainly of luxury apartments, with some office space, restaurants, bars and a public viewing platform on the top floor.
The tower will be topped with a 10,000 square foot brasserie and bar along with a viewing deck all serviced by bullet lifts running up the outside of the building.
With progress on the proposed U2 Tower on the other side of the Liffey stalled, Crosbie’s landmark building will be the first highrise development to make its mark on the docklands skyline.
– -Andrew Phelan
2 Years?
It probably wont take 2 years, I’d say he means 2 years from when they broke ground, not from this point on, because its taken them 9 months (just guessing there) from when they started on site to get to this stage.
I’d say the lift shaft(s) will fly up but the floor plating would take more time and the fitting out always takes alot longer, I’d say 2 years from now is a fair enough time line. It’s unlikely to be finished by 2009 me thinks
yeh and it’s always the lift shafts that have the major impact. When Dubliners see 32 storeys of them rise up there’ll be a lot of “jaysuses” audible around there
i must say i find this very exciting. i honestly thought they would never build it. 32 storeys is very big for dublin. that’s twice the height of liberty hall. the location of this watchtower seems good to me. i think they should build quite a good few of these highrises at this location with a few more directly opposite the liffey. it would give dublin a whole new dimension. having said that, i do believe that highrises should be kept well away from the lowrise historical district. i hope that people post pictures of the watchtower’s progress. i can remember 10 years ago or so when they proposed a much taller one george’s quay plaza as well as the rest yet no proper highrises were built. i’m just glad to see the watchtower going ahead. i hope the finished product looks good. it’s hard to tell from a photo. i do like the sound of an observation platform. i’ll just have to get a look at that.
You make a refreshing change, I like your enthusiasm,pepsi!
It will look good, and it will look even better if it’s balanced out by other buildings as tall in the same area, although that might be hoping in vain. Give it a shot, let’s face it, no matter what building was built here, some people wouldn’t like it.
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