"The plan includes a new landmark 37 storey tower standing 132 metres, sculpted like a diamond. It will have at its base, a cultural quarter and will be positioned at the entrance to the former Jurys Hotel and be centred on the median of Pembroke Road.The plan is a mixed use development combining a multitude of facilities for the area - consisting of generous family sized apartments, destination retail, which includes an underground mall, an embassy complex that can accommodate the relocation of some of the 29 embassies currently in Ballsbridge, an office block, a 232 bedroom luxury hotel, an ice rink, a crèche for 150 children and a cultural quarter which will incorporate an art house cinema, a jazz club, art galleries, artists’ studios, music rooms, rehearsal studios and a European Centre for Culture to become a focal point for the work of many cultural institutes."
It will also be next door to the new 'glass tyre' shaped Lansdowne Road. Its about time Dublin got something on this kind of scale I reckons. The shiny video the developers have put together talks a good bit about high density polution and mixed used developments and gives it the hard sell, including a graphic that makes urban sprawl appear positively evil looking, which should not really be necessary but probably is. I imagine the end result will be scaled down a little after a brouhaha of well to do nimby squealing but I hope not. Of course the even well-er to do developers will become even more well-er to do, but them's the breaks.
By the way bringing Dubai into this post is possibly just a means for me to remind you if haven't seen before about the stuff I wrote about the development of Dubai (including world's tallest building the Burj Dubai) for the Sunday Business Post a few weeks back. You can read it here, on my work blog.
The developer's (Mountbrook) website is here.
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