Denis O’Brien to build 26 storey residential in Donnybrook
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I’m surprised I missed this:
http://www.unison.ie/classifieds/property/commercial/stories.php?ca=151&si=1065515
Donnybrook to get city’s tallest residential scheme
Wednesday October 22nd 2003TELECOMS magnate Denis O’Brien, plans to build Dublin’s tallest residential building in Donnybrook. His company Partenay Ltd is seeking permission to build a 25 storey slim-line glass tower consisting mainly of apartments, on the site of the former Bizquip retail outlet, located between the local garda station and the fire station.
While the number of storeys may seem high by Donnybrook standards, the applicants may point out that only a few hundred yards away is the very high structure of the industrial chimney of a former Magdalen laundry.
Also only about half a mile to the north-east is Ardoyne House, for a long time the southside’s tallest apartment building.
The site of Partenay’s planning application also includes 1-3 The Crescent, Donnybrook. The project will include two basement level car parks, retail/commercial and office space on the ground, first and second floors, a residential gymnasium, roof garden and function room at the fourth floor and 37 apartments in the rest of the building. The penthouse unit will be designed in duplex style and could sell for more than €1 million. This would put the value of the total development at around €20m. Designed by deBlacam and Meagher, views from here will include the RTE studios in Donnybrook, the Dublin Mountains and Dublin Bay.
Mr O’Brien is not listed as a diretor of Partenay but informed sources indicated that it looks after some of his property interests. One of his company’s, Level 62, operated from the Bizquip premises when it was putting together his application for a third generation mobile phone licence.
One of the directors of Partenay is Sandra Ruttle, also company secretary at eIsland, O’Brien’s consortium which unsuccessfully bid for Eircom in 2001. Another Partenay director is David Sykes who has also been an associate of Mr O’Brien’s. The third director is Ann Foley.
The former Bizquip head office at 25/27 Donnybrook Road was sold in the year 2000 for around €3.8 million and its owner Jim Leyden opened an alternative retail outlet across the road and moved its main distribution centre to Sandyford.
The single storey Bizquip site covered about 895 sq m and came with full planning permission for a second storey. At the time the agent Bill Phelan, of The Phelan Partnership, said that it had potential for about 1,800 sq m of space comprising retail and offices.
Donal Buckley
Yup – read that one last week. I’d be really surprised if it actually get’s off the starting blocks. The article was just a nice bit of publicity for the PROPOSED development. I’m guessing the D4 mentality do-gooders (in this case it’s actually in D4!!!) who auto-object to everything are salivating at the prospect of hobbling this plan no matter how well designed it may be.
It’ll go to an bord planala, get reduced to a “timeless” red brick with painted blue metal balcony 4+1 courtyard dev – smashing.Similar plans are afoot near pearse st – but have heard nothing about it in the press.
That’s Coolred’s 16 storey proposal? The next planning decision is due by the 3rd. It’s already had a time extension. The next decision for what must be the most extended decision in planning history, the Southbank development (over three years and still no initial decision) is due on the 10th.
The chances of this happening are somewhere between ‘yeah’ and ‘right’ i.e. not at all. The two examples used Magdelene Chimney (tall but hadly obtrusive) and Ardoyne House (Built before current planning guidelines were introduced) are flawed for the reasons given.
If this gets built I will personally start digging the Metro tunnel from Stephens Green to the airport with a toothpick!
just checked up on the net – coolred pearse st… TIME EXTENSION!!! Or should that be “delaying the inevitable rejection”.
I’d be really surpirsed if it sailed through 1st time, or at all – inspite of having millenium tower and bolands mills as next door neighbours.i just cant imagine de blacam and meagher doing a 26 storey building, all wood and ye olde brick. does anyone have images of what it would look like?
i reckone it would be like the beckett theatre on steroids :
I’d normally assume it was nonsense, but the planning application has been lodged (5166/03), the architects are serious and Denis O’Brien is the developer. It’s a serious proposal, and I doubt he’ll give up without a fight.
And nor should he.
People are dismissing this project based soley on the description of “26”.
How about waiting to see how it’s designed and will fit in with it’s surroundings.
A building does not have to be the same height as it’s surroundings to “fit in”. Obviously the case for badly designed taller building outweighs those for well-designed. But tall buildings are so few and far between in this country – maybe we should wait to see the proposal before dumping on the idea.planning app. image
Swanky indeed – so much for building up as an effective use of land and keeping per-unit costs down… pure status symbol. I’d like to see the prices for a penthouse in THAT!
To td, if you come back: I assume you are involved with either the developer or the architect. Any more information, any more pictures?
As ussual the photmontage shows absolutely no relevence of the proposed building to the surrounding area. Is this building proposed for the old Buzquip site? I did not know that site closed the vista along that routeway.
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