Water towers of Ireland - Some really cool photos

AlmightyCushion · 30-12-2012 4:00pm #1

http://www.designboom.com/readers/water-towers-of-ireland/

discus · 30-12-2012 5:01pm

Cool, in a 'I appreciate post-soviet poland' way

Duggy747 · 30-12-2012 11:12pm

This is just like the one in my hometown, sits in between all the houses and there was big uproar about putting phone masts in it which were going to result in all of us becoming mutants.

Oh, the fun we had playing around that deathtrap.

The pictures need some Lenin statues or writing that looks backwards, then we'll have some soviet-looking structures.

Exar Khun · 31-12-2012 12:11am

If you like the water towers and soviet brutalist architecture you may like this. http://www.jankempenaers.info/works/1/16/

calnand · 31-12-2012 2:17am

I see someone else reads gizmodo. It's a pity our water towers aren't por the ones in the UK where people are able to turn them into houses, our ones while very nice to look at and engineering genius wouldn't be able to work the same way.

Exar Khun · 31-12-2012 2:21am

Actually I saw the Spomeniks here http://www.theasc.com/blog/2011/02/28/spomenik%E2%80%94jan-kempenaers-and-%E2%80%9Cthe-end-of-history%E2%80%9D/. Unless you were talkling about the OP

RandolphEsq · 31-12-2012 2:36am

Wow those Spomenisk are really fascinating. There is something highly pleasing looking at them.

Lu Tze · 31-12-2012 11:35am

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

http://www.designboom.com/readers/water-towers-of-ireland/

The first in the link is waterford city's water tower, the design is loosely based on a john rocha glass made by waterford crystal back in the day when they were going strong. Nicely lit up at night also.

Water towers of Ireland - Some really cool photos

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