Board gives green light to State's tallest skyscraper

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2005 / June 16

An Bord Pleanála has approved plans for the construction of Ireland's tallest building - a 32-storey residential tower nearly twice the height of Liberty Hall - on a site opposite Heuston Station in Dublin. By a majority of five to two, the board overruled one of its senior inspectors, who recommended that the tower should be omitted because of its "detrimental impact on a number of very important views and buildings", including the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham. In deciding not to accept the inspector's recommendation, the appeals board said it considered that the tower "would be acceptable in terms of its visual impact, having regard to both its design quality and its particular location . . . outside the historic core of the city".

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