Objections to Foster's 'skycatcher' plan for Clarence

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2007 / March 15

An Taisce, the Irish Georgian Society and planning activist Michael Smith are among objectors to the €150 million revamp designed by celebrated London architects Foster and Partners of the Clarence Hotel on Dublin's Wellington Quay. Nine individuals and groups have written to Dublin City Council to object to the scheme, which will see the Clarence transformed from a 44-bedroom boutique hotel into a five-star 141-bedroom hotel, with a large spa, signature restaurant, bar and freshfood market laid out over nine storeys. The new expanded hotel will incorporate the former Dollard printing works and four Georgian buildings on Wellington Quay. The quayside facades of the existing hotel and adjoining buildings, all of which are protected buildings, will be retained. If planning permission is granted, a quayside café deck is also planned.

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