The Spike
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We’ll see the claims pouring in now from people falling and tripping over, as they were too busy looking upwards!
I have never seen so many people smirking and smiling around the city centre. Walking in any direction away from the Spire, every single person coming towards you is looking up, smirking, and making wry comments regarding the IRA and other more provocative remarks, then of course proceeding to crash into you.
It’s brilliant! But still, mostly all you can hear passing by is positive, positive, positive:
“It’s incredible, how did they do it?” “Beautiful finish isn’t it” and “They’ll have some job cleaning that huh huh huh ” etcJames – you should go to the City Council site and view the plans or better still http://www.reflectingcity.com
The plaza is just outside the GPO, however the entire street is being repaved, and the pavements widened, as well as the central median overhauled. You can buy the
O’ Connell Street Integrated Area Plan in Dublin bookshops for the princely sum of
20 euro, which I did in ignorance of part of it being 5 years out of date. But the paving and general plan is still relevant.Gosh, 20 yoyos Graham…are you mad! The wonder that is the web is made for such things.
The Reflecting City site more or less says it all and the DCC can send you on their newsletters. You probably have loads of nice pics though….
Yep, very nice. Don’t worry though, I had to buy it for research and for videoing, ie ripping off copyright, it’s pictures, for a documentary mentioned 558 posts ago in the very first post on this thread. Reading it now is quite amusing, ignorance is bliss. The whole bloody thing has to be re-edited now to take account of the Spire! I’ve been waiting for it to be finished for three months now!!!!!
If only! A mere college project I’m afaid (although using the best of equipment!) I’m hoping to have it shown on the Ntl channel when I get around to finishing it & contacting them.
cool, look forward to that. if you fancy doing an archeire preview i can swing a projector and a room in town.
On an interesting note, I received a mail today from the offices of Ian Ritchie Architects. They asked me to pass on their thanks to everyone on this forum, and said they found the discussions very entertaining.
And of course they mentioned that it’s not over yet:
part 1 – the form is now there
part 2 is the top lighting
part 3 is the bronze base
part 4 the mirror pattern at the bottom of the base and the lighting emanating from the below ground chamber.I’d almost forgotton, but we really do have plenty of good stuff to come.
fjp
The very least he can do, he owes us big time!
I’ve just seen the most spectacular view yet of the Spire, coming in on the train this morning over the northern viaduct that passes through Stoneybatter and that area, into Connolly. The sky was full of grey clouds but the dazzling sunshine was coming in from the east, making the Spire light up like a beacon, it turned almost completely white, with a dazzling silvery tinge. And it stood there, alone, towering above the vast tracts of the terraced Victorian houses that streched out as far as the eye could see. Spectacular!!!
I came in from Kildare this morning- you can see it as far away as the naas road- and that was with the early morning mist- needed to see the crane to get a bearing on it though!
The sun was just coming up and hitting it- really quite spectacular. Will probably be able to see it from even further at night when the lights go up.
I was cycling along the quays, from the Ringsend direction last night, ant it really looked impressive, even without the lighting. THe red beacon shone on top, but there was enough light hitting the spire to make it stand out. Its height is really something else, though. And it will look absolutely fantastic when the lighting is finished.
James
Graham – I saw that also. It look really white – very impressive. I saw it from the DART between Tara St and Connolly this morning at 7:30am.
Thats nice to think our deliberations have been followed by Ian Ritchie & Co…. and maybe even Jim Barrett and his gang have had a look in.
I too saw it from the loop line bridge early this morning – it looked amazing as the sun was only rising and the sky was a uniform navy colour. It really looked like a beacon!
I mean from further back, coming in from Clontarf & into the city, but it does look brilliant from the Loop Line Bridge as well, its a great talking point for everyone on the train (or rather for eavesdropping on other people’s conversations)
All along, I’ve taken it as being 120m, and that’s stated by all ‘official’ sources, but I heard a construction worker on the site say to a passer-by that it’s 125m. Any definite figure anyone? Presumably he got it wrong, but he could have been in the know…
In my experience, I’m interested to note that I have’nt come across a single young woman who is in favour of the Spire, yet all older women seem to love it, whereas all young men think its fantastic and older men think its the stupidist thing they’ve ever come across. Anyone notice similar patterns?
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