'Sensible' plan includes 'sensational' tower

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2000 / March 02 2000: 'Sensible' plan includes 'sensational' tower

Mr Michael Lowe, director of Arup Associates in London, was engaged by Dublin Corporation last March to advise on the massive scheme proposed for the 51-acre site, and it was on the basis of his recommendations that the corporation capped the overall development at 4.6 million sq ft. As he told the inquiry, London's Broadgate complex - a dense scheme of offices, generally eight to 10 storeys high, centred on Liverpool Street station - would have offered a better model for Spencer Dock than the mass of much higher buildings proposed for the site.

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