The Architects' Journal, November 25th, 2004
Ian Ritchie Architects
Client: Dublin City Council (city architect Jim Barrett
Contractor: Siac Rad ley Joint Venture
Contract value: £3.07 million
Dublin's new spire is visible across the city, an impossibly slender 120m high shaft of stainless steel. Close up, you discover that it is located at an important Dublin crossroads - the junction of Henry Street, North Earl Street and O'Connell Street. The spire was originally the winning design in a1998 international competition for a millennium tower to replace the 1808 Nelson's Pillar, blown up by the IRA in 1966. Following a successful hig...
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