The Bell By The Smell

The Diving Bell on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin.

Rain sodden today (top) and how it may look in Summer (centre) and by night (above) after renovation.

Declan Lee writes:

This may be of interest to the droves of people who walk /drive by it every day and have zero idea what it is! The Diving Bell on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay is getting a renovation [see link below]. T

here since the 1860’s and in use up until 1960’s. The Diving Bell was designed by the “Father of Irish Concrete”, the famed engineer Bindon Blood Stoney. He was the Chief Engineer in Dublin Port at the time. This project is one of several projects by the Dublin Port Company to rejuvenate the historical area around the Port….completion by May 2015…

The bell, the Bell, etc.

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19 thoughts on “The Bell By The Smell”

JimmytheHead February 11, 2015 at 3:10 pm

“Wow, those solar flares really make that image look great”

– said no designer ever

Bobby February 11, 2015 at 3:25 pm

The curse of JJ Abrams lives on.
edalicious February 11, 2015 at 3:47 pm

Probably because a designer would’ve called them lens flares. Solar flares are a very different thing altogether!
1. JimmytheHead February 11, 2015 at 4:40 pm
  
  Both are the same from a design stand point smarty pants, but I get your meaning.
  1. edalicious February 11, 2015 at 6:05 pm
    
    I was referring to this kind of thing:
    
    http://www.trbimg.com/img-51df3d8b/turbine/la-sci-sn-suns-bizarre-behavior-weakest-solar–001/600/600×511
    1. smoothlikemurphys February 13, 2015 at 2:25 pm
      
      We know. Still not interesting.

YourNan February 11, 2015 at 3:20 pm

“The works are valued in the range of €400k – €750k ” really? 350k fluctation, no sweat?

dhaughton99 February 11, 2015 at 4:11 pm

Yeah thats quite a gap.

andyourpointiswhatexactly February 11, 2015 at 3:21 pm

Bindon Blood Stoney? Crikey. They don’t make names like that anymore.

Odockatee February 11, 2015 at 4:39 pm

Fierce shtink of awesome off that name right enough

Disgrace February 11, 2015 at 3:45 pm

Yay, let’s sanitise everything!!

Leave it, looks better as is and nicely contrasts with all the souless modern developments nearby

Crank February 11, 2015 at 4:06 pm

How are they going to lower the ground to get that name-tag underneath it?

Spaghetti Hoop February 11, 2015 at 4:08 pm

The Diving Bell o’er the Liffey swell….. foggy dew…. etc.

Peter81 February 11, 2015 at 4:21 pm

Bindon Blood Stoney — sounds like one of those bearded “haunting” folk guitar guys that play in Whelans.

Soundings February 11, 2015 at 4:34 pm

What a monumental bloody waste of money. €750,000 would buy 35-bedroom 3-star hotel in which you could house 100 homeless people.

Soundings February 11, 2015 at 4:34 pm

And is that a heterosexual couple with their arms around each other in the bottom picture?

JimmytheHead February 11, 2015 at 4:57 pm

Early 50’s high earners enjoying a balmy summers eve… classic soft demographic targeting
1. Spaghetti Hoop February 11, 2015 at 5:01 pm
  
  + mortgage-free with a bijou in Brittany.

I wonder... February 11, 2015 at 7:41 pm

I wonder… if that might give the kids who like diving into the liffey ideas… and/or a challenge

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