TF plans to demolish iconic Dublin hotel scuppered 09:05 - Feb 13 with 5509 views | gueRRilla | A €15m plan by investors including AirAsia boss and Queen's Park Rangers owner Tony Fernandes to demolish the capital's Ormond Hotel to build a new hotel on the site have been shot down by Dublin City Council. Mr Fernandes and shareholders in Monteco Holdings had wanted to construct a new five and six-storey property with 170 bedrooms in what would have been one of the latest plays by foreign investors in Dublin's resurgent hotel sector. Contd: http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/council-scuppers-fernandes-plan-for-new | ![](/images/avatars/2731.gif) | | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
TF plans to demolish iconic Dublin hotel scuppered on 18:30 - Feb 13 with 5222 views | DylanP | That is an ugly building. It sure is good that there are people out there saving ugly bland box-like buildings. | ![](/images/avatars/2677.gif) |
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TF plans to demolish iconic Dublin hotel scuppered on 19:36 - Feb 13 with 5143 views | BrianMcCarthy |
TF plans to demolish iconic Dublin hotel scuppered on 18:30 - Feb 13 by DylanP | That is an ugly building. It sure is good that there are people out there saving ugly bland box-like buildings. |
Hideous facade now, thanks to plaster and neon, but a lovely building underneath if restored. The proposed five or six stories of 'monloithic' awfulness was part of their problem. After twenty years of Fianna Fáil-led planning corruption Dublin's beginning to take it's heritage seriously again, so even without seeing the proposed plans I'd be inclined to trust them on this. | ![](/images/avatars/1570.gif) |
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