| Architect |
Ian Ritchie |
| Date
Built |
2002 - 2003 |
| Location |
O'Connell
Street |
| Description |
|
| Ian Ritchie's
design was selected as the winner of an
international competition for a national
monument, to be erected on O'Connell Street
in Dublin. It occupies the site of the
former Nelson's Pillar that was destroyed by
an Irish Republican bomb in 1966. The
original pillar resembled the one in
Trafalgar Square in London and stood 40.8
metres high. Ritchie's Spire rises an
amazing 120 metres. The architect's
website says of the Spire that, " ... the tapering monument rises
above O’Connell Street, breaking above the
roof line with as slender and elegant a
movement as is technically possible. Its
structure and surfaces respond to the
character and climate of the Irish
landscape: the Spire sways gently in
direct response to the wind and during
daytime the monument softly reflects the
light of Ireland’s sky. From dusk, the
base is gently lit and the tip illuminated
to provide a beacon in the night sky over
Dublin. It has its roots in the ground and
its light in the sky." |
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The
Dublin Spire, O'Connell Street
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