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  • January 22, 2003 at 5:32 pm #723815
    D OR
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    Go on ya good thing!

    January 22, 2003 at 6:38 pm #723816
    sherrioverseas
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    …if I had internet access worth a dingleberry, I would have chimed in earlier, alas…

    What I see around town are more monuments, sculpture and works than I can shake a stick at. At least these projects are being completed.

    I gather the city is not a master of maintaining them, but that is a nice little detail left out of many plans!

    Nonetheless, I have asked all my friends at home to check out the spire on the web. It will certainly be news to them!

    January 23, 2003 at 4:55 pm #723817
    crc
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    nothing in Paris yet, unfortunately.

    Also, does anyone know its exact height in metres?

    January 23, 2003 at 4:58 pm #723818
    D OR
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    check out

    http://www.spireofdublin.com

    for some great pics

    January 23, 2003 at 4:59 pm #723819
    Michael
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    120 metres high.

    January 23, 2003 at 5:18 pm #723820
    crc
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    …thanks.

    BTW: The Eiffel Tower is 320m tall and the only other tall building in Paris, The Tour Montparnasse, is 207m.

    January 23, 2003 at 5:43 pm #723821
    kefu
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    There are a lot more tall buildings in Paris than those two. La Grande Arche de la Défense is almost as tall as the Spire at 110 metres and its much smaller than most of the skyscrapers in that area.

    January 23, 2003 at 5:54 pm #723822
    crc
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    Ok, sorry!

    There are other tall buldings in Paris, but they don’t dominate the skyline like the two I mentionned.

    La Défense can been seen from the city, but its not strictly in Paris (the 75 postcode which the French are oddly picky about!)

    What I intended to say was that Paris has kept a fairly low-rise skyline with the exception of the Eiffel Tower and the Tour Montparnasse.

    January 23, 2003 at 6:47 pm #723823
    kefu
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    I don’t mean to be pedantic.
    But I do think the Parisien aversion to high-rise is overstated.
    Even within the Peripherique, there are buildings like Hotel Concorde-Lafayette, Hotel Meridien and entire Montparnasse train station complex.
    Even Pantheon and Hotel des Invalide – at dome level – are taller than anything in Ireland, as is the Pompidou Centre.
    Circling right around the Seine and the Peripherique, there are dozens of high-rise (by Irish standards) buildings.

    January 23, 2003 at 7:13 pm #723824
    rob
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    To put the height in context…

    Saturn V rocket – 111m
    Coast Redwood tree – 112m
    Spire – 120m

    January 23, 2003 at 7:24 pm #723825
    RSJ
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    All the Irish in New York, y’see. Still waiting for the coverage in England…but Ritchie being a Brit will help.

    January 23, 2003 at 7:39 pm #723826
    GrahamH
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    Enter Ciaran O. There hasn’t been any coverage in the UK at all, not even Channel Four news, which is unusual. Can I ask sherrioverseas, what is a dingleberry?

    January 24, 2003 at 9:06 am #723827
    GregF
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    When you say Paris is fairly low rise, most of the buildings however are either a uniform 5/6 storeys high. Such scale in general 2/3 storey Dublin would be seen as dizzying heights.

    January 24, 2003 at 9:12 am #723828
    urbanisto
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    Graham – not entirely true as there was a phot on pg2 of the Guardian when the fourth section went up…. But I must admit I couldn’t find anything about the topping off

    January 24, 2003 at 12:15 pm #723829
    sherrioverseas
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    Quite frankly Graham, I’m not sure it’s a real berry of a dingle (which would be fitting for a pennisular southern region here, no?)

    It’s just an American slang term that popped out, without my thinking.

    I suppose you could run with it however, and use it among your peers, and see what they think it implies.

    January 24, 2003 at 5:36 pm #723830
    eoinmc
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    Spire is mentioned here with link to Archeire site:
    http://www.arqa.com.ar/noticias/

    January 24, 2003 at 6:19 pm #723831
    GrahamH
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    Sorry, I meant no coverage on British Television. Ch 4 usually does such ‘novelty stories’ in it’s efforts to be different from the mainstream.

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