The Sunday Business Post

Trinity College, Dublin could become home to the tallest building in Ireland if a controversial new development plan by the college authorities gets the green light. A planning document submitted to Dublin Corporation on September 22, and seen by The Sunday Business Post, details proposals by the university's buildings department to erect an 80-metre high hotel on the campus grounds. The new hotel, which would dwarf even Liberty Hall, would be located at the former An Post site on Westland Row and would consist of `an elegant, slender, cylindrical tower', according to McHugh Consultants, the architects who prepared the document. The document also outlines proposals for a car park, retail units and private residential space as well as student accommodation and academic facilities. The site was originally acquired by the college as the location for a new £14 million sports hall, and was to have been designed by Peicop Freid architects, the firm responsible for the Pyramid at the Louvre Gallery in Paris. Plans are underway to relocate the complex to the basement of a proposed new £70 million Information Technology building.