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Water towers of Ireland - Some really cool photos

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭discus


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    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.
    img_4_1356704423_5c666579d33fbbba67c36153c3a5023f.jpg

    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 524 ✭✭✭Exar Khun


    If you like the water towers and soviet brutalist architecture you may like this. http://www.jankempenaers.info/works/1/16/
    Spomenik_18.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 721 ✭✭✭calnand


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 524 ✭✭✭Exar Khun


    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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,296 ✭✭✭RandolphEsq


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭Lu Tze



    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.


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