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Looming over the building site

A tall crane looms over the building site of The Elysian, a new high-rise building that will house offices, apartments, a shopping center and underground parking. The main tower of the new building will be 17 storeys high, taller than anything else in the city.

Over a year ago I took a photo of the building site as it was then for the US Book. As you can see, they’ve dug the foundations and started on the main tower.

This picture was taken from the top of a 4 storey car park which gives you some idea of how tall that crane is!

4 Comments

  1. Posted November 27, 2006 at 11:47 am | #

    Such massive construction!! Great day for this shot, the sky adds to the scene well.

  2. navin
    Posted November 27, 2006 at 1:11 pm | #

    Great shot. Geat perspective

  3. Flickr: carrigman
    Posted November 27, 2006 at 9:29 am | #

    carrigman has posted a comment:

    I passed by here this evening. It’s going to be one massive building (for Cork..an itsy bitsy teeny one for Manhattan).

    Looming over the building site

  4. Tim Donovan
    Posted December 15, 2007 at 8:25 pm | #

    hi,can you please give me a PDF of the attached picture looming over the building site.

    Tim

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  2. By .. on December 9, 2006 at 5:24 pm

    [...] Yesterday the Elysian’s tower reached the 18th floor, 72m above sea level and one of the tallest buildings in the country. Apparently St Finbarre’s Cathedral is 75m to it’s central spire but there won’t be a 2400sq ft penthouse at the top of that! [...]

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