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An Apollonaut travel guide
A shipyard by the water.
An introduction to the Titanic Quarter, the former Harland & Wolff shipyard where Titanic Belfast stands.
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Read the quarter
The Titanic Quarter lies on Queen’s Island, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) from Belfast city centre, on the land of the former Harland & Wolff shipyard.
A guide can give context without turning a place into a backdrop. Notice how the slipways still run down to the water, how the yellow gantry cranes rise over the skyline and how the new buildings sit among the old docks.
Silver shards
Titanic Belfast is clad in 3,000 silver anodised aluminium shards, designed with CivicArts and Eric Kuhne as concept architects and Todd Architects as lead consultants.
Begin with a detail and ask who built it, who used it and how it has changed. A photograph alone cannot tell you that.
A shipbuilding chapter
Titanic Belfast shows one side of the city: a port whose shipyard built Titanic and her sister Olympic.
Look at the meeting of the two: the modern building’s prow, and the slipways beside it where Titanic and Olympic took shape.
Make room for context
Pair this reading with the history and the Journal. This is an introduction for visitors, not a claim that our team manages these places or represents the people who run them.
Read at the source
Sources & further reading
Links lead to the original publishers.
