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Thu 04 Apr 2008Hotel design a major coup, says Edge
THE DEMOLITION of the Clarence Hotel, Dublin, a protected structure, and its rebuilding to a design by British architect Norman Foster was "an incredible coup for Dublin city", U2 guitarist and one of the owners of the hotel, the Edge, has said.
He was speaking outside a Bord Pleanála appeal hearing against plans to demolish all but the facades of the hotel, its expansion from 49 to 140 rooms, and the addition of a metallic elliptical roof called the "sky catcher".
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