'Giant Man' to be stuck in the Liffey

darkman2

Dublin says yes to giant sculpture in the Liffey


John Burns
Dublin city council has granted planning permission for Antony Gormley’s 48-metre statue in the River Liffey.

Objectors to the Iron Man wire sculpture had included a group of 96 nearby residents who said it would tower over their houses on the quays. There is a four-week deadline for objections to be submitted to An Bord Pleanala.

There were fears that the statue would become a roost for birds and be coated with droppings. One of the conditions set down by the council is that the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA), which commissioned the statue, must submit full details of its cleaning arrangements, including the name of the company given the contract to wash it and what times it will do its work.

The DDDA also has to lodge a security “to secure the satisfactory maintenance or/and dismantling and disposal of the structure if and where necessary”.

The authority has also been told that its workmen cannot do construction work on Sundays or public holidays and must finish at 6pm on weekdays and 2pm on Saturdays. The sculpture will take about eight months to erect and will cost €1.6m.

The DDDA said the conditions imposed by the council were “easily satisfiable”.

The authority could have located the statue, which is 80% the height of Liberty Hall, in an area where it needed no planning permission, but chose to site it at City Quay on the seaward side of the Sean O’Casey bridge, to allow for public input.

Gormley, the London-based designer best known for his Angel of the North statue near Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, modelled the sculpture on his own body.

Pic

http://newsfeed.tcm.ie/images/people/dublinstatue.jpg


lol!

Joe Cool

Any clever nicknames for it yet?

darkman2

Joe Cool wrote: »

Any clever nicknames for it yet?

No but here is another pic


http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/files/2007/08/gormley2.jpg



this looks bad....

AckwelFoley

looks good.

Now to clear up the smell of dublin....

Jimbo

Awesome. It's no spire though

phasers

Iron man in the Liffey?

*re reads*

oh never mind...

keen

Clean the river first it's manky.

Jumpy

How long before he gets a wire frame penis welded on by students?

Mimikyu

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Sherifu

Back in black! RAWK!

Shouldn't they be spending money on something useful like paying the builders dole...

PrivateEye

Recession? What recession?

Money (not) well spent, typical.

Raoul

They should have giant speakers that play Iron Man by Black Sabbath once every hour then it would be really cool.

And fire should blaze from it in keeping with the tune. Sort of like the Bellagio's water display in Las Vegas. How cool would that be, iron man that blazes fire while playing Iron Man song. Now that is cool and would attract lots of people and no worry about the birds landing there unless they want to be burnt to a crisp.

Anyone else think this sounds good??

Tails142

given the state of the liffey you could call him

The Prick in the Gick :pac:

Bottle_of_Smoke

i like this

should be an irish person though, phil lynott perhaps

PeakOutput

gormleys stuff aint bad i dont think its as bad as the spire anyway but it is a bit big :rolleyes:

mathias

The Prick in the Gick

HA ! Well done .... Something tells me that one will stick

Turd Ferguson

They would save a sh!tload if they just build it out of all of the shopping trolleys that are in the Liffey already.

Silly art people...they just never learn.

Mimikyu

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Call Me Jimmy

48 metres isn't that giant. They should really go for it and make it viewable from space!

Nolanger

Waste of money just like the Spire. Will look great covered in seagull s**t.

Dave!

Pointless really... and sh*te looking

They should redesign it to make it into the shape of Biffo

Might need a bit more wire though :pac:

I give 2 days before someone climbs him.

darkman2

If he is taking a wizz he is pointing the wrong direction.

Ciaran500

I like it.

FunkZ

It's cool if ya ask me!

But the money would be better spent putting the statue in a kneeling position on top of the Spire! 13,290 currots, screw you Bono!

Tom65

darkman2 wrote: »

No but here is another pic


http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/files/2007/08/gormley2.jpg



this looks bad....

He looks like he's having a slash in that photo.


I'm looking forward to the nicknames though.

chem

Da junkie looking for his spike might be a name to put on him.

Be nice idea to play music and shoot flames from him, but the government give our gas to shell and the homeless would be complaining about the noise:p

FunkZ

chem wrote: »

Da junkie looking for his spike might be a name to put on him.

Be nice idea to play music and shoot flames from him, but the government give our gas to shell and the homeless would be complaining about the noise:p

Ah it was a two part plan, I always knew there was a reason to the Spire apart from meeting bogger friends at!

Rhyme

Christopher Lee is moving up in the world it seems.

Kintarō Hattori

Hmnnn in those images it looks pretty awful but of course I'll have to see it in 'the flesh' before I can have a solid opinion. I can't say I'm enthusiastic about it. I dunno why so many people don't like the spire, it's not bad at all.

flyingoutside

But it would be a laugh convincing americans is an ancient irish giant that turned to a frame we could make a fortune

dsmythy

I think it's a great idea. It should look great. Beats a giant needle by a mile. People are too conservative. Take a chance on it.

MooseJam

how is it going to take 8 months to build ffs

FunkZ

MooseJam wrote: »

how is it going to take 8 months to build ffs

It's going to be built with the ring pulls off of diet 7 Up cans, and it has to be Diet 7 Up, no other fizzy drink ring pulls will do.

Blazer

Looks ok..better than the fvckin needle anyway..
besides why is Dublin getting all this stuff anyway.
It's not as if the junkies will appreciate it. :rolleyes:
But I suppose the other half of the population can tie their horses to it

Dyr

looks like hes fiddling with himself...the **** on the banks

taidghbaby

fuk sake we'l scare the living sh1te out of the japanese tourists as they fly in!!!

Thrill

It looks fooking horrible. What's going on up there in Dublin, going all "Texas" on us by doing everything big. Big spike, big wire git standing in a river. What next?

It looks a bit like the Oscar statuette that actors get.

Earthhorse

darkman2, you are the Socialist Workers Party of boards.

kowloon

Spend it while you have it I say,.. Oh, wait :rolleyes:.

johnnyskeleton

How long before the bit in the liffey rusts (melts) and it falls over.

That would be quite in keeping with the national spirit actually, build a giant man who then stumbs and falls over head first into the gutter.

thegloriousend

wow, looks deadly. I personally hope it is approved

Dyr

I've just had a brilliant idea, why dont we take a page out of our forefathers books and fill the fecking thing with scumbags once a year, dose it in petrol and throw a match in, it's in the liffey so it's hardly like it'll be a fire hazard.

syklops

The stiffey in the liffey?
The gay in the bay?
The jock by the dock?

Could they not do something else with 1.6 million quid? We had 12 billion. We spent millions giving asylum seekers cars, housing people who dont want to work but do want flat screen tv's.

It does not rhyme but the skiver in the river would be most appropriate.

darkman2

Earthhorse wrote: »

darkman2, you are the Socialist Workers Party of boards.

I consider myself just to the right of center......actually.;)

Dont be at yourself

Looks cool.

Jigsaw

There's a thing like that in Belfast.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40916000/jpg/_40916009_bigbeacon200.jpg

Does no harm. F*ck it. I have more important things to worry about.

humanji

Of course it does harm. It's money that should be spent on somthing useful and not on something that, let's face it, hasn't been and won't be thought out fully.

I remember posting in a thread ages ago that we should get a kind of Colossus straddling Dublin Bay. I now realise that it was a silly suggestion.

Seriously, what the f*ck are they thinking?

Xavi6

Lol I didn't think there were any more geniuses out there after we had the Spire and the Time in the Slime but I've been proved wrong.

Ciaran500

Is there any type of art or sculpture that people would like?

It seems anytime something like this people just piss and moan about it then nothing is said about it once its built.

Steve_o

lol from the thread title I thought they were gonna stick a really fat guy into the liffey:D... It looks cool, but its kind of a waste of money at the moment!