Another Gilded Age Comes to a Close, Or at Least a Pause [Kevin D. Williamson]
New York Times op-ed columnist Bono will have to wait a while before he occupies his new recording studio, suspended midair over a tower of luxury apartments:
Plans to build Ireland’s tallest building, a $250 million Dublin skyscraper that would include a recording studio for the band U2, have been put on hold, The Associated Press reported. The Dublin Docklands Development Authority said Friday that it was still committed to the U2 Tower by the River Liffey but that for now it had suspended negotiations with possible developers because of the grim economic environment. The building (above in a computer rendering), designed by the British architect Norman Foster, is to include luxury apartments and, at the top, a suspended pod that will house the recording studio.
The U2 tower has been plagued by bureaucratic problems and conflicts of interest. It's being built on land seized through eminent domain. Is there a better emblem for our times than the image of Bono, in his Armani sunglasses, dictating his New York Times column from a pod swinging over luxury apartments on forcibly seized docklands?
11/03 11:21 AM
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