Lack of specifics in official plans for high-rise buildings in the capital is creating confusion

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2005 / February 3

The 32-storey tower proposed for the Grand Canal Docks is likely to be rejected as inappropriate and premature. The Grand Canal Docks area was identified as an appropriate location for high-rise buildings five years ago, in a master plan adopted by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority. Now, ironically, the DDDA itself is among the 20-plus objectors to plans for a 32-storey tower at Barrow Street. Reflecting its own almost pathological view of high-rise buildings, it said the scheme by Anthony Reddy and Associates (ARA) for Treasury Holdings would amount to "gross over-development" of the 1.5-acre site and the "excessively tall" tower would have an "adverse impact on the skyline".

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