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Did you enter the U2 Landmark Tower competition for Dublin, Ireland?
Then Irish-architecture.com wants to hear from you.

Why?
Read the following news clippings:

Revealed: winner that lost U2 tower prize
The Sunday Times
A mystery architectural firm was the original winner of the prestigious
contest to design a studio for U2 in Dublin's docklands. The design, a
rectangular building from which emerges an elegant tower, was the first
choice of the seven-man jury that included Adam Clayton, the rock band's
bass player. The contest was jointly sponsored by the Dublin Docklands
Development Authority and U2. However the jurors were forced to abandon
their initial choice because they could not identify its author.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2091-824761,00.html

With or without you
The Sunday Times
The competition for the U2 tower in Dublin's docklands turned into the most
lurid farce in Irish architecture for 50 years. It was simple and
distinctive, a rectangular building with an elegant tower emerging from it.
The design, the understanding of the site's topography and the materials
chosen indicated an intimate knowledge of Dublin on the part of its
anonymous architect. It was, decided the jury of seven, the winner of the
international competition for a landmark tower and studio for U2 in
Dublin's docklands.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2101-821354,00.html

Did U2 really get the tower it was looking for?
The Irish Times
Apart from The Spire, no major project in Dublin has generated as much
heated debate in architectural circles as the U2 tower for Dublin's
docklands. Few would disagree that the 'twisting tower' which won the
architectural competition for a landmark building in Dublin docklands has a
dynamic quality. What's at issue is whether it really was head and
shoulders above more than 500 other entries from around the world. The fact
that it was co-designed by Felim Dunne, a brother-in-law of U2's Paul
McGuinness, raised eyebrows - and some hackles

It is likely that a substantial chunk of the ?500,000-plus in entry fees
raised by this competition went to PriceWaterhouseCoopers, who were called
in to carry out a 'due diligence' exercise after some of the leading
contenders could not be identified, including - incredibly - the one that
the jury had picked as the winner.

As part of this exercise, all of the entrants were requested to submit
digital versions of their schemes, to aid efforts to match drawings with
names in the mountain of material that the competition generated. But even
this stratagem did not resolve the issue because no entry form could be
found for the one chosen by the jury.

To this day, nobody can say for certain who the original winner was - so
some architect, somewhere in the world, has missed out on a prestige
commission due to incompetence on the part of the organisers. And Dublin
will never know what might have been erected at the end of Sir John
Rogerson's Quay.

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/property/2003/0904/2141241465RPU2TOWER.html

Specifically we want to hear from you if:

- You were not contacted by the organisers for exhibition
- You were never contacted by PriceWaterhouseCoopers the auditors of the
competition
- You were contacted by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and didn't respond to their
queries.

We are also interested in exhibiting all entries at

http://www.archeire.com/unbuilt_ireland/dublin/u2_tower/index.html

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