The 14-storey Landmark Tower will play an integral role in the regeneration of Dublin's docklands and will undoubtedly make a bold statement on the city's skyline. Designed primarily as an apartment block, the Tower will also include a floating garden which adjoins the socially active areas of the building; the restaurant, bar and night-club; to ensure that the vacinity has life around the clock.

The Tower's dynamic form is seen as a series of strata that emerge at the back of the site and grow upward and outwards, towards the water's edge. It's free flowing shape accentuates the two main structural elements of the building; the cantilevered platform and the inclined tower, which rises at an angle of 10° and leans out towards the River Liffey. The ski slope type skin of the building, clad in copper, acts as a major focal point from afar and provides additional definition to the massing of the building, notably at the top of the Tower where it splits over two levels to mark the U2 studios and provide a rooftop garden. The tower, clad entirely in clear glass, has vertical blades of coloured glass distributed across the façades and these become less densely populated the closer you get to the water's edge, to appear as if the tower element is morphing from the skin of the building.

The platform element juxtaposes the slimline tower element and in plan, veers away from the orthogonal position to hover over the site below and offer extensive panoramic views of both the city and the sea. It serves primarily to raise the profile of the building from ground level and this allows for additional public space beneath the building. On top of the platform, an elevated garden is provided and is seen literally as an extension of the landscape again from the birth of the building towards the rear of the site. It allows the general public to traverse the surrounding landscape and then onto the building unhindered and enter the main tower at various points. Incorporated through the platform and emerging above the garden level, a forest of random piloti will provide an interesting structural feature, whilst at night will be lit to give the effect of an elevated bar of twinkling lights.