For all the environmental issues that Bono supports he’s caused a bit of a storm over the new U2 Tower, which will be the tallest building in Ireland.
An egg-shaped recording studio suspended from the top of a luxury apartment block was recently unveiled but the Irish National Trust are disappointed. Although The "pod" studio will dangle beneath vertical wind turbines and a huge solar panel Ian Lumley of the National Trust is concerned that it "could potentially be an incongruous blot on the skyline on the south side of the city.”
Furthermore there appears to have been no proper environmental impact survey carried out nor had they taken into account the key issueclimate change – in particular the rising sea levels.
Maybe U2 have ‘found what they’re looking for’ but many will not think it’s the ‘sweetest thing’. I guess they will carry on ‘with or without you’. (Sorry).
Construction is to begin in 2008 and end in 2011, at a cost of 200 million Euros. Norman Foster will be involved and the height will be at least 120 metres (32 storeys).