100m citywide landmark tower planned for East Wall

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2005 / August 9

The Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) is seeking approval to raise the height of a proposed landmark tower at East Wall Road to 100 metres, to match the planned U2 tower on the south quays. This would effectively set aside a 2002 decision by Noel Dempsey, then minister for the environment, to reduce the height of the tower from 100 metres to 60 metres. John McLaughlin, the DDDA's director of architecture and planning, said the lower building already approved was now seen as "only a neighbourhood landmark", whereas what the site really required was a citywide landmark. "Our urban design study shows that this is the sensible place to put such a 'marker'. There was a lighthouse on the site when East Wall Road was on the seashore, so a tower here with the U2 tower opposite would form a gateway."

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