Where the Streets Have No Name -- But the Skyscrapers Do

Environmentalists upset over Dublin’s planned U2 Tower 1

Bono and his fellow U2-ers are stuck in a melee (and they can't get out of it) over a plan to construct a skyscraper in band members' native Dublin. The tower, monikered U2 Tower in the name of self-love, would be the highest building in Ireland. Ian Lumley of heritage group An Taisce says the building is not the sweetest thing -- it would "be an incongruous blot on the skyline." Lumley still hasn't found what he's looking for: he charges that no environmental impact study was carried out and that "no provision has been made as to the effect of rising sea levels on an entire area earmarked for more residential living as well as businesses." U2's likely reaction: We'll go ahead, with or without you.

source: The Guardian

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  1. Delay And Deny's avatar

    Delay And Deny Posted 7:37 am
    05 Dec 2007

    Carbon Credit

    Bono and Edge can offset the building with carbon credits by hand collecting all the pressed CDs of Zooropa extent in the world, and then recycling them into table legs and ashtray stands.

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