The Spike
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Anyone know where i can get info on new spike for dublin. Currently doing a project on it and need all help i can get.
Here is info from the architects:
http://www.archeire.com/onsite/spike/index.htmlAlso search in our news archives here:
http://www.archeire.com/news/archives.cgi?f=keyword&keywords=spikeShould start next week. Completion is highly weather dependent – if the wind gets up, work is impossible, as assembly tolerances between ‘can’ sections are so tight.
I’m taking photographs every day from the same spot over the next few weeks as I’m only around the corner….
First one this morning
http://www.archeire.com/onsite/spike_construction/index.htmlAccording to the Indo, the first section is going up ‘in the next few days’. In the Sunday Times pic it certainly looks as shiny as they promised – hope it doesn’t end up being obliterated by graffiti!
Brilliant double page spread by Shane O’ Toole in the Culture section, the pieces were polished 24 hours a day for over a month, wow!
Mr. Ritchie is a prime candidate for Pseud’s Corner. Writing bad poetry and describing his work as sculpture. Red alert! Red alert!
Fortunately he is saved from himself by being a damn fine architect. I’ve yet to see a bad building by him. Let’s wait and see, but the Spire could well be magnificent.
Interesting photos of the Spire’s foundation
I had a look down O’Connell St last night whilst waiting for a Nitelink, and the crane was already twice the height of the buildings. It looks really ominous in the dark, and I was well annoyed I didn’t have my camera.
And it seems I can’t get anywhere near the place due to my current work location, and will probably end up with no useful photos at all.
hmm
fjp
fjp the pace of change is so slow you’d have to camp there…. I’m only living around the corner so its easy…
Just a thought..
How have DubCC et al planned for the possibilities of someone raming the spike with a car/it being vandalised by grafitti (highly likely)/it being urinated on (even more likely!)?
It probably will have all three done to it in weeks..
Originally posted by Andrew Duffy
I had a look down O’Connell St last night whilst waiting for a Nitelink, and the crane was already twice the height of the buildings. It looks really ominous in the dark, and I was well annoyed I didn’t have my camera.This is the crane from Parnell Street… thats the Carlton in the foreground
I’m not sure what I’m looking at here – there seems to be two cranes and they don’t look sturdy enough to go 120 metres-plus…
its still on the ground… the main pivot is behind the builings in the bottom right corner….that will pull all the remainder off the ground…
Here’s a bunch more photos. I got excited by the idea of a frickin’ huge crane and hopped on a ten bus.
These are just in a directory, so there are no thumbnails. Click the image name and it loads.
http://www.fantasyjackpalance.com/fjp/photos/spike/
And that crane is HUGE.
fjp
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