The Spike

yep, that one is from dublin city council’s traffic website at:

[url=http://]www.dublincity.ie/traffic/traff.htm[/url]

It’s also visible from another webcam run by camvista (the best webcam of dublin) most of you are probably familiar with it already, it runs through several shots every minute & the spike is visible in one of them …
Wrote and asked them to divert the camera towards the spike or to ask if they would consider setting up a temporary cam to cover it (they do a lot of that kind of thing) but no reply … anyway here’s the link

[url=http://]www.camvista.com/ireland/dublin/liffey.php3[/url]

okay doesn’t look like they’re working so just type them in manually & you’ll get there …
:confused:

On a rather bizzare note if you look at the camera from the other end, i.e. O’Connnell bridge is the thing aligned properly or is the traffic Island the one out of place?

Just a thought, here is the link……

http://193.120.149.58/camera06.jpg.

is that it with the third section up now?? seems a lot higher than last night!

C.

Hee hee ……good one………

Wow, that’s high ain’t it ……..god we’ll all get vertigo and nose bleeds at the height of the thing as it goes up and up.
I was on the bus into work this morning and heard a couple, aka a South African chap and a Danish girl, talk very aloud about me native city saying that all the buildings were very low. They noted that stylish new tall glass building in Blanchardstown as we passed it and then commented jokingly on the Mickey Mouse pastiche 3 storey appartments in the vicinity. It was cringe inducing to think that we are generally a land of low aspiration midgets.
Up the Spike and up and up with it too.

Originally posted by CiaranO
I wrote a rather long response to one of your texts last night (re: still a provincial british city) and only thanx to the great enigma that this site is, it was erased.

I would just like to point out that we didn’t erase anything.

Originally posted by Paul Clerkin

I would just like to point out that we didn’t erase anything.

no i accept that Paul, cheers I meant rather that it sometimes deosnt run smoothly this site, and having posted it, I got a duff page, and when i went back to the page on which i had typed it originally it was gone, and i could nto be bothered to repeat it!

GregF

Of course my world is insignificant. It is not the one you pervade. The one of ‘sure it’s all shite isn’t it’. the post colonial mind that once independence has been achieved tries to gain the upper hand by being like the previous oppressors. Your opinions that everyone in Dublin is just happy with everything no matter how bad it is may not be compleytely off the wall, but why continuously turn to the childish west brit rhetoric that its ‘cos were little old Ireland’. IF, and its a big IF, this is the case, surely YOU, are intent on changing things through your arhcitectural nous (are you an architect) or are you happy to have petty arguments online?

I am neither an architet nor an expert in urbn planning, but I do have an appreciation of good architecture and public buildings.

You seem to think that a simple improvement to Dublins architectural inadequacies would be some high-rise buildings. Of course, there have been thousands of minds that have designed skyscrapers for Dublin, but they obviously came to the wise conclusion that, correctly it would be frankly ridiculous to have one or two buildings over 150m in Dublin, with its low skyline. Perhaps you know better.

So architecture is an outward reflection of a society, indeed it is a reflection of civilization itself’
Well lets not start a ‘quotes’ battle as Im sure you understand I could find a quote to prove that the world is indeed flat.

I will say however that there is already some great architecture in Ireland, although a lot of it is pre-1922 so I suppose you wouldnt count that would you. Is James Gandon not British enough for you either?

Self-criticism is always necessary of course, but poisonous self-loathing is not really the way to do it.

C.

O Ciaran……calm time will ye, jesus…..I think you’ve missed the point of what I overall imply….and thanks for the sarky ‘inferiority complex’ jibe too…. but maybe it is a reflection of the Irish nation itself.
I never used the term ‘West Brit’, but you yourself did and on several occasions. (Is that perhaps a reflection of a deep down inner feeling that you maintain. We are after all however a lot more British here in Ireland than we would like to admit as the British are far more European than they’d like to admit. History has dictated this of which we refuse to admit.)
I simply implied that some folk here are more entranced by the ongoings of the banalities of cross channel soaps and sporting events rather than taking an interest in their own built environment, yet they feel they have a right to critisize what in the long run may be better for their native city. (It is a free country too, people can do what they like, and why not)
Regarding the height and scale thing …..well if you look at the history of architecture it was always a competiveness that has produced great architecture, has’nt it………a competiveness and an urge to build bigger, build better, build more flamboyant…etc….etc….and it’s from this that we have a great history of great architecture to look upon today. From the times of the Egyptians, the Romans, The Renaissance, The Gothic, The Baroque, the 20th Century; whether it be Pyramids, Temples, Cathedrals Castles, Manor Houses, Parliaments, Social Housing for the masses……Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz and so on …. there has always been a want to build better for the betterment of humanity…….but that is a bit lacking in the imagination of the Irish general public at times ……hence our middle of the road complacent surroundings, acres of houses and the urban sprawl, bad transport etc …etc…..etc….that we have in Ireland today…..Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Coming from an agrarian background too we don’t really have a great knack of urban living like our fellow Europeans…..do we.
It is what undercurrent ideology (what ever that maybe) that’s behind a society that produces the best of a society………hence at the end of the day some societies have a better quality of life and better outward trappings that go with it…(and that’s what matters….is’nt it)
You do realize that don’t you …………..but jesus…..why bother!

Is there a section going up now?
http://193.120.149.58/camera06.jpg

Adverse weather conditions?
Extended public sector Christmas holidays?
Alarm clock didnt go off?
Broke a nail?

True, I imagine it’s not the sort of thing you want to do in high winds.

James