TILP
Social Event
The Gravity Bar - Guinness Storehouse
12
November 2002
19:30

The
Institute of Localisation Professionals
(TILP) invites you to join your colleagues at the first
annual TILP Social Event, formerly the Annual Localisation Dinner, which will take place on
the evening of Tuesday, 12
November 2002. This is a unique opportunity to meet old friends and make
new ones, exchange the latest news and just have a good time.
The venue for the event is the award-winning
Guinness
Storehouse – Dublin’s number one visitor attraction, which has
played host to, amongst many others, the former US President Bill
Clinton during his visit to Ireland. Right in the heart of the St
James’ Gate Brewery, the Storehouse was built using the same
architectural techniques used to create Chicago’s skyscrapers.
Open escalators link six levels, which surround a central
glass atrium shaped like a giant pint glass rising 100 feet high. It
would take 14.3 million pints of the real thing to fill it – as
somebody has recently worked out!
This is where the Gravity Bar is located, the
highest bar in Dublin. Its circular glass walls provide a truly
spectacular, 360-degree panoramic view over the city of Dublin.
In 2001 Arup Consulting Engineers wrote that the Guinness
Storehouse “will stand as a museum of the past for those who
appreciate what architecture and engineering of another age achieved. It
will also stand as a model for others to follow who seek new uses for
our heritage of structures from the past.”
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