Crosbie plan for Dublin's 'Point Village' unveiled

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2005 / August 30

Far in advance of securing approval from the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA), plans were unveiled yesterday for a landmark tower, shopping and leisure complex on a 12-acre site adjoining the Point on North Wall Quay. The 32-storey tower, rising to a height of 100 metres, would contain apartments on its upper levels and "whatever the market decides" below them, according to a spokesman for developer Harry Crosbie, the Docklands entrepreneur who owns the site. The scheme, to be known as the 'Point Village', would include a 12-screen multiplex cinema, a 220-bedroom hotel, 200 apartments as well as office space, underground parking for 1,250 cars and a shopping centre of 9,290 sq metres (100,000 sq feet). Designed by Scott Tallon Walker, who are also the architects for the development of nearby Spencer Dock, the scheme will also include an extensive remodelling of the Point to increase its capacity to 14,000 and a smaller venue for 2,500.

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