Dublin Landmark - Gormley's Windmill

[fergalr]

For a pair of chimneys, their scale and slender design and the harmonious proportions of height and width of the pair are to my mind anyway very appealing. And they stand so tall, squarely at the mouth of the Liffey like sentinels marking the gateway to the city. With a clean, their grey, white and red colours would look as well under an overcast sky as they do in the brilliant sunshine. If you ever take a peek at the paintings around the Stephen's Green railings, you'll get a quick idea of how much the Poolbeg Chimneys are seen as symbols of Dublin.
Industrial achitecture can have a beauty of its own, as ourrecently converted Gasworks in Ringsend bear witness.

[wombat]

For a pair of chimneys, their scale and slender design and the harmonious proportions of height and width of the pair are to my mind anyway very appealing. And they stand so tall, squarely at the mouth of the Liffey like sentinels marking the gateway to the city. With a clean, their grey, white and red colours would look as well under an overcast sky as they do in the brilliant sunshine. If you ever take a peek at the paintings around the Stephen's Green railings, you'll get a quick idea of how much the Poolbeg Chimneys are seen as symbols of Dublin.
Industrial achitecture can have a beauty of its own, as ourrecently converted Gasworks in Ringsend bear witness.

To me, they look like two big barber poles. When you look from the south side of the bay towards Howth, they ruin the view, when you look from the north towards Killiney & the mountains, they do the same. As I said beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
My main point is that since people want something to look at, why not replace them with something functional, I also like the symbolism of replacing a monument to pollution ( the reason they are so tall) with a clean alternative (and I'm no Green).

[michael1965]

Great idea wombat but I'm sure the Dubs would end up calling it something a lot more colourful than your name for it. And think of the stories that would circulate and the rumourmill that would start up about how the blades could fly off and behead people or how it might move faster if located near Dublin 4 because of the amount of hot air flowing from there.

The Urban Turbine could be a 6-7 MW Enercon 126 the largest wind-bagger in the world at present - a perfectly suitable symbol for the Irish Capital I tell you.

Why not? If these things are being located in the country side, then why not build them in the cities too? They would be much closer to their customers there.


I've seen a small wind farm being built near Donaghmeade in North Dublin, but one of these massive jobs located in each suburb would be better IMO.

[eyeSpy]

2 words.
shadow flicker.
in every home in Dublin as the sun rises in the east.
not ideal.

the dublin mountains is a much better spot with a much better wind resource.

either way you have a few hundred thousand nimbys to deal with.