Bono's Hotel Plans Strike Pride In the Name of Angry Dubliners

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10/03/2007 at 1:41 PM
Tags: Celebrity Scoop, Hotel Renovations, Hotel Hype

U2's Bono is having some problems getting his renovation plans for The Clarence Hotel off the ground in Dublin. The Telegraph is reporting that Dublin traditionalists are object to the hotel's funky architecture:

The U2 singer has put forward plans for a dramatic structure with a spaceship-shaped glass dome at the summit of an extraordinary atrium extending from the basement to the rooftop. It has been described as a "skycatcher" and a "white hovering halo."

Bono is hoping to make this hotel a destination spot for Dublin but the city's environmental authority organization, An Taisce, says the plans "would dwarf neighbouring buildings and dominate the area." And they really hate the plan as one member of An Taisce called it a "bastardisation" and "a Fosteresque 21st-century rock star bubble." Ouch.

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