Hotel at Grand Canal Square

The Grand Canal Square project is a heady mix of international architecture that will become a new urban village for Dublin City. The project combines several major elements, of which the Grand Canal Theatre by Daniel Libeskind, west of the Square is the most eye catching. To the north of the Square, Manuel Aires Mateus has designed a dramatic luxury 5 star hotel with 94 Hotel Residences. Described by the Sunday Times as a building which will "bring the champagne fizz back into architecture in Dublin", the hotel features a dramatic lobby designed as though "excavated from a seven storey rock".