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Yay Cheap Zoom Methods!!!!
Care to identify the steeples/chimneys in between??? And I’ve been out of date with my directory due to serious work issues at the moment. Nothings getting done except office then home (home being rare indeed).
I’d like to also encourage other zoom photographers to give us those strange distance shots…
fjp
The church steeple is the second tallest spire in the city, the Augustinian church on Thomas Street.
Considering the last piece was installed last Tuesday, and it was said it would take 7 days to illuminate the tip, does it mean we’ll have it lit in 2 days time?
I thought it was two weeks…
We’ll find out tomorrow, or whenever it happens.
What I want to know is how they plan to get the beacon off without the big crane. The best idea I’ve heard so far is getting the army to shoot it off!
James
I’d say they’ll use a great big super stretch cherry picker to get that beacon off the top and also to maintain the Spire from time to time.
Is’nt technology great this days and is’nt it great what some people can do……I bet the New York Fire department has even taller ladders to stretch into the sky than our Spire here.I think there should be a little spire climbing robot commissioned for the cleaning job. Nice project for any mechanical eng students out there…
Speaking of backtracking – one of the columnists in that rag that is Ireland (Mail) on Sunday has apologised for ranting about the spire and now admits it’s a welcome addition to Dublin – more revisionist history. Should the Lord Mayor, who voted against the Spire originally, be allowed to preside at the official launch?
Graham welcome to the league of Senior members, you now qualify for use of the executive washroom and a lifetime’s supply of oxygen.
We should hang the present Dublin Lord Mayor from a Judas Tree with the likes of other such meely mouths, back-stabbers and cut-throaths etc….that take a long time and some amount of cajoaling in order to see the light.
i’m gonna use this forum because everybody reads it it seems. whats ones opinion of the work of glenn murcutt? i ask because he will be giving lectures and workshops at bolton street d.i.t over the next few days. exciting stuff, or is it?
Yaaayyy! Thanks Rory!
The comments made in 1965 about the completion of Liberty Hall are remarkably similar to that of the finished Spire. From the Irish Builder:
‘An inspiring monument’ ‘A truly contemporary architectural composition’ ‘Under the changing skies of our climate, at night lighted up, or in the daytime, it always looks handsome, when seen against the blue sky with white clouds sailing over’
Uncanny. At least today, they’re actually true.
Care to identify the steeples/chimneys in between???
yep, the church spire is the augustinian church on thomas street like andrew said and the chimney to the left is in the grounds of crumlin hospital, part of the heating system (afaik !)
Theres a brilliant view of the Spire from outside Arnotts, as all of the red brick Victorian & Edwardian buildings down Henry Street, with their elaborate dutch gables, decorative brick and terracotta, contrast so well with it’s sleek profile.
The Spire is having another positive effect on Dublin as, for the first time, Dubliners are being encouraged to look up, above shop/ground floor level, and now hopefully will begin to appriciate the rich architectural heritage they pass by, unheedingly, everyday.
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does look like the red light is gone alright, take it they must be planning to turn on the main light soon ? not really safe having no light at all ….
Nope, the light is still there, passed only this afternoon. Hav’nt a clue how it’ll be taken down though.
don’t want to spoil the fun, but wouldn’t it make more sense for them to leave it on till the very end, and then have a big “look at the pretty lights” thing on the “opening” day…
“fjp”
yeah was thinking that too fjp, cause if they turn it on now, there’ll be nothing left to unveil at the official opening ! (whenever that will be)
You would think so, alright. Though there will presumably have to be some testing of the internal lighting before the grand opening…
The red light definately isn’t switched on tonight. I have no idea why not.
How necessary is the beacon anyway? The only aircraft that flies over the city at night is the Garda helicoptor, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen it get as low as 120m.
James
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