Dublin’s dizzy heights: Unbuilt Celtic Tiger high-rises
Numerous boomtime plans for these buildings came to nothing, but what stands in their place?
Olivia Kelly reports from a pocket park at the rear of Dublin's Convention Centre at the site of what would have been Dublin’s highest building, the 35 storey, 152 metre high Spencer Dock Hotel. Video: Bryan O’Brien
These five tall building projects were proposed at the pinnacle of the construction boom, before Dublin City Council introduced caps on the height of developments that could be built in the city. Only one of them could be built now.