This May, we witnessed the latest twist in the battle for Dublin’s skyline. As the city grapples with a chronic and worsening housing shortage, its Council has gone to the High Court against the national planning board, An Bord Pleanála, to preserve a lower maximum height for new buildings in the Docklands “Strategic Development Zone” (SDZ). The Board wants the Council to allow for more height, but the Council has argued that Dublin needs to preserve its low-rise heritage. At the heart of the deadlock are two towers proposed for the north quays by developer Johnny Ronan. At 41 and…

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