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The Dublin Spire was erected linking December 2002 and January 2003 on Dublin's primary thoroughfare, O'Connell Street. Nothing of document had been erected on this imperfection since the mining of Nelson's Pillar in 1966. The Spire was designed by Ian Ritchie Architects and is a flexible artifact spatiality which tapers from a 3m diameter at the linear unit to 15cm at the top. The Spire is constructed from 8 drawn tubes of unblemished alloy which were congregate on locality on O'Connell Street victimization a complex stephen crane and block scheme.

It had been originally hopped that the Spire would be realised by 2000 and erected to mark the millennium, but preparation and biological regulations resulted in a difficulty of 3 time of life. The Spire is not without its critics, but in comprehensive it has been highly healthy standard in Dublin and is seen as a appropriate standby for Nelson's Pillar. Since its construction, the Spire has been nominative for sixfold discipline awards, as well as the Stirling Architectural Prize in 2004.

Nelson's Pillar, which preceded the Spire was a polemic batholith pillar with a carving of Lord Nelson erected at the summit. The Pillar was built in 1808 to honor Admiral Lord Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar. Ireland was e'er a impressively independent nation, and did not know having a cenotaph to a British Soldier stab upon them by their British occupiers. The Pillar was by far the tallest edifice in Dublin at the time, and until its ending in 1966, became a working class get-together plant for the empire of Dublin. The Pillar had an central flight of steps to a screening dais that gave unrivalled views complete Dublin City and Bay.

Despite respective attempts to have the rule removed, plus one by the then An Taoiseach Sean Lemass in 1960 who longed-for to renew the statue of Admiral Lord Nelson beside one of Saint Patrick, the support fixed remained. On March 8 1966 the post was blown up by a unit of former IRA men to mark the 50th day of remembrance of the 1916 Easter Rising. This had not been the firstborn effort by the IRA to have the pole abstracted. In April 1954 the IRA called on Dublin house to hope statute law to pull out the pillar, but the metropolis fathers contracted to embezzle no endeavour.

Today the Spire is one of Dublin's supreme visited tourer attractions. One of the supreme lovely aspects of the Spire is the information that it reflects feathery so fantastically no substance what time of day. There are glittering views of the Spire from Henry Street as it seems to compress a null in the viewpoint of Dublin.