The Spire of Dublin, also called the Monument of Light, is a stainless steel pin shaped monument on O'Connell Street in Dublin, Ireland, standing on the site of Nelson's Pillar, which was destroyed in 1966. Architect Ian Ritchie designed the spire, seeking what he described as an elegant and dynamic simplicity bridging art and technology, with the structural engineering firm Arup providing tuned mass dampers to counter sway across its eight hollow stainless steel cone sections, which together weigh over 133 tonnes. Built between 2002 and its completion on 21 January 2003, the monument rises 120 meters from a base 3 meters across that tapers to just 15 centimeters at its tip, making it a prominent vertical landmark of Dublin's millennium era, even as critics have questioned its relevance to the city's older architectural heritage.
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Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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1. Spire of Dublin (Wikipedia)
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The Spire of Dublin, also called the Monument of Light, is a stainless steel pin shaped monument on O'Connell Street in Dublin, Ireland, standing on the site of Nelson's Pillar, which was destroyed in 1966. Architect Ian Ritchie designed the spire, seeking what he described as an elegant and dynamic simplicity bridging art and technology, with the structural engineering firm Arup providing tuned mass dampers to counter sway across its eight hollow stainless steel cone sections, which together weigh over 133 tonnes. Built between 2002 and its completion on 21 January 2003, the monument rises 120 meters from a base 3 meters across that tapers to just 15 centimeters at its tip, making it a prominent vertical landmark of Dublin's millennium era, even as critics have questioned its relevance to the city's older architectural heritage.
Wikipedia infobox building_type field (Monument)
building_type = Monument, sculpture
- Uses Element: Stainless Steel, infobox material field: Stainless steel
View the Source 2. Spire of Dublin (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (2003)
Wikidata item Q1134365, property P1619: 2003
Wikidata height (P2048) statement: 121.2
Wikidata item Q1134365, property P2048 (height): 121.2 m (converted to metres, preferred/normal rank, non-deprecated)
Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Dublin, Ireland
Wikidata item Q1134365, property P131/P17 (location): Dublin, Ireland
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