Toronto has its CN Tower and New York its Empire State Building. Now Dublin is about to join the skyscraper club with the U2 Tower, a 130-metre building to be named after the Irish rock band. The tower will bring new meaning to the U2 hit Vertigo, with a recording studio for the band on the top floor. The project has been designed by Irish architects Burdon Craig Dunne Henry, who won an international competition with their twisting 30-storey design. Described as like a "Brancusi sculpture," it will be the tallest building in Dublin when it is completed in 2009, and is expected to become a landmark. However, the distinctive tower will be nowhere near large enough to be counted among the world's tallest buildings.
