Foster’s U2 Tower, tallest in Ireland
Published by square. August 5th, 2008
Artist’s impression of the U2 Tower
An egg-shaped recording studio suspended from the top of a 600ft luxury apartment block was unveiled as part of the rock band U2’s plans for a skyscraper that will dominate Dublin. The “pod” studio will dangle beneath a battery of vertical wind turbines and a huge solar panel, hanging free from the innovative energy centre for acoustic reasons. Details of the U2 Tower, which will be the tallest building in Ireland, emerged as it was announced that a consortium led by the band has been selected as the preferred bidder to design, finance and construct the £140 million project. Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen will team up with Lord Foster, who built the “Gherkin” tower in London.
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The Geranger Ltd consortium consisting of Ballymore Properties, Patrick McKillen and August Partners (U2 members and management) beat off designs submitted by four other tenders: Treasury Holdings/Sisk; Mountbrook Homes, controlled by the developer Sean Dunne; the Dutch-based Royal BAM Group and the Riverside II Partnership.
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Is that Dublin’s downtown? The old area by the river?
A few years ago, while in Dublin, I saw some posters with an image of a spiral-shaped building. It surely looked much better than this one. But that’s not the important thing for now. What’s really important is that such building is nothing more than a monster placed in Dublin’s downtown. They could build it somewhere else down the river, perhaps in Dublin’s “modern” area but no, they had to do it exactly where things should be preserved…