Last Monday the chairman of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, Peter Coyne, travelled to London to meet architects from the unfortunate 3W practice, whose design won the competition for the U2 docklands tower, only to be discarded in secrecy when the development body was unable to identify the entrant.In their meeting, Coyne acknowledged that 3W's entry was indeed the initial choice of the competition jury. He maintained the DDDA line that the entry had been invalid and so had to be discarded. 3W, for its part, had a receipt to prove its payment of the entry fee and maintained that its paperwork was checked several times before it was submitted. Nevertheless, a détente of sorts was reached.
