Seal sculpture - Donegall Quay - Belfast
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Seal sculptures at Donegall Quay, Belfast.
Waymark Code: WMV2M9
Location: Ulster, Ireland
Date Posted: 02/13/2017
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"A £675,000 investment has seen a Belfast car park transformed into an exciting new ‘eco space’ for the public. Social Development Minister Nelson McCausland unveiled the space which sits directly on top of the Donegall Quay underground car park. The space is designed to form a new social area for locals to relax beside the River Lagan. It is a mix of grassy areas and seated spaces.
A number of public art works and sculptures are included throughout the park. Sammy the Seal is the nickname of a sea-lion (s) that frequent the estuary of Belfast Lough where the River Lagan meets the Irish Sea.
When developing the aesthetic of Donegal Quay, amongst the last quays open to the Public in Belfast’s Riverside regeneration, it was important to the leading Urban Landscape Designer Anthony McGuigan from landscape architects The Paul Hogarth Company, that Sammy played a part in his vision for the street-scape. Today, Sammy can be seen rising from ‘a sea’ of granite paving and setts supplied by Hardscape Ireland. That ‘sea’ was made up from a blend of select, high technical quality granites: Jinan Blue, Kobra & Mist supported with deep blue sea wide borders to grassland of premium Non-Fossil Carlow Blue limestone.
The works project was completed by White Mountain Quarries Ltd and Hardscape are proud to have supported both landscape architect and contractor in delivering an improved shared space to the riverside of Belfast."
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In the Musgrave Channel you may see Belfast's large breeding seal colony - over 40 seals were counted in August 2016.