A landmark 37-storey tower, 12 metres taller than the Dublin Spire in O'Connell Street, is being proposed for the site of Jury's Hotel in Ballsbridge by property developer Seán Dunne, of Mountbrook Homes. The company will lodge a planning application with Dublin City Council today seeking permission to redevelop the seven-acre site occupied by Jury's and the adjoining Berkeley Court Hotel, where the scheme will be on public display this weekend. Apart from the 132m residential tower, which would have a range of cultural facilities at its base, the proposed development includes a multi-storey embassy complex and office block, a 232- bedroom luxury hotel and an underground shopping mall. The cultural element of the scheme, which was devised by Gate Theatre director Michael Colgan, comprises an "art house" cinema, a jazz club, art galleries, artists' studios, music rooms, rehearsal studios and what is billed as a European Centre for Culture. Altogether, the site would accommodate 536 apartments, many of them large enough for family living, and Mr Dunne said this showed that Mountbrook was "playing its part in the need to halt the drastic, unsustainable urban sprawl of Dublin" all over Leinster.