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Name the Skyline

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06/27/2016 5:02 PM

Dublin, Ireland. The Samuel Beckett Bridge.

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06/27/2016 5:43 PM

They ought to call it the Celtic Harp Bridge. Who designed it? Calatrava by chance?

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06/27/2016 6:26 PM

Well the bridge is certainly distinctive, looks like a sailfish with a guy posing on his tail...

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06/27/2016 6:29 PM

That doesn't look like the same bridge....

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06/27/2016 6:48 PM

And yet another entirely different bridge.

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06/27/2016 6:40 PM

it ain't

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06/27/2016 7:07 PM

Back to the original, at last (assuming it lasts.)

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06/27/2016 9:55 PM

These are all designed by the same guy Santiago Calatrava....Cool designs, I especially like the walking bridge that's a sundial....

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06/27/2016 11:07 PM

Aah, as I guessed. I have a book of Santiago Calatrava's designs.

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06/28/2016 6:00 PM

Stroke of genius to make the stanchion a gnomon (though it depended on the orientation of the bridge.)

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06/27/2016 7:05 PM

Doordude had it, I was just jerking him around. I like the blue barrel bldg that looks like ur fell backwatds

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06/28/2016 3:41 AM

Stow Bardolph, in Norfolk? No? Oh, well. Never mind.

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06/28/2016 10:03 AM

To all, thanks for the pictures.

Those are some awe inspiring bridge designs, I had not heard of the designer but will certainly be looking into his work.

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