New U2 Studio in Dublin Docklands
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LANDMARK TOWER DEVELOPMENT TO CREATE A NEW GATEWAY TO THE CITY
The Dublin Docklands Development Authority has today issued a brief for an Architectural Concept Competition to design a 60 metre landmark tower at the riverside in Dublin’s Docklands. The tower is to include an exclusive recording studio for rock band U2 on it’s top two floors.
The band has been in discussion with the Docklands Authority on this project since last year when the Authority sought to purchase the current studio at Hanover Quay to allow public amenity works relating to the Grand Canal Harbour development.
Peter Coyne, CEO of the Docklands Authority stated: “We proposed the landmark tower in the Grand Canal Docks Area Planning Scheme in 2000 and are more than delighted that the band has taken the top floors as that can only add to the significance of the landmark. Indeed it adds to the significance of the whole area. We are operating the competition to procure a concept design which can then be taken forward with the development market.â€
A spokesperson for the band said: “We are proud to be a Dublin band. We did not want to break our strong association with the Docklands and this development gives us the opportunity to secure the unique nature of accommodation we need in a truly remarkable and exciting way.â€
The competition, which has been prepared in association with the RIAI, is open internationally and architects are required to prepare concept proposals for a slim “point†block over four more substantial floors providing recording studios, offices and ground floor bar/restaurant/entertainment venue. Architects will submit their proposals to the scrutiny of a jury put together by the Docklands Authority. The band will nominate a member to be one of the jury.
The development will be enclosed by the public riverside amenity strip (campshire) which the Docklands Authority is developing on both sides of the Liffey between Matt Talbot Bridge and the East Link Bridge. The campshire on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay is currently being landscaped as public space.
“The riverside areas of the Docklands are undergoing massive physical changes and the river is beginning to come back to life. This development will be the first at this end of Sir John Rogerson’s Quay and will create a new landmark gateway to the cityâ€, added Mr. Coyne.
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Exciting competition though isn’t it? I hope there’s loads of brilliant entries. Here’s where it’ll go:
It’s a good deal for U2 – the top 2 stories and Bono said at the conference that it won’t cost them at all! Still it’ll make it easy to direct tourists to – it was hard to give clear direction to windmill lane and you often see lost looking fans down townsend and lime st. This one will be hard to miss!
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Details now available
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contd.. Spencer Dock, while impressive in their own right, have not taken advantage of the possibility of building beyond the 5 storey norm. looking downstream from O’Connell Bridge it would be nice to see some evidence of this new “World class city quarter” and not just a view blocked by that awful loopline bridge.
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What is this ?
Was there a previous competition ?http://www.skyscrapers.com/english/worldmap/building/0.9/139187/index.html
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That’s a different building in the same general area. It is approved, but the company that owns the site is the subject of a messy takeover campaign at the moment.
http://www.ddda.ie/uploads/pdfs/aerial%20shots.pdf
The highlighted site is for the U2 building, the large empty site for the building you posted the link to. I believe the existing U2 studio is in one of the unpleasant warehouses towards the top left of the picture. The city is off in the direction of the top right; so if both buildings are built the larger one will obscure the “landmark” U2 tower.
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