Belfast Telegraph

You can't miss it. A giant needle of steel and glass soaring 72 metres into the Belfast skyline. Jane Bell asks some pointed questions of Colin Conn, one of two Belfast architects responsible for the shiny new spire perched on top of the 100-year-old St Anne's Cathedral Colin Conn could very well end up with a crick in his neck. He has been driving around Belfast, spire spotting. Not any old spire, you understand. It's the Spire Of Hope, now mounted on top of St Anne's Cathedral and soaring 72 metres into the blue, that the Belfast architect can't take his eyes off. "I'm enjoying seeing it from different angles, playing 'spot the spire' ... coming down the Newtownards Road, coming in from the M3, down the Shankill Road, up Joy Street from Ormeau Avenue." Belfast's skyline changed forever with its erection one workaday Tuesday morning.