Property developer Seán Dunne will today lodge a planning application for a landmark 37-storey tower on the site of the former Jury's Hotel in Ballsbridge.
His Mountbrook Homes is seeking permission to redevelop the seven-acre site occupied by Jury's and the adjoining Berkeley Court Hotel, where the scheme will be on public display this weekend.
The 132m residential tower would be 12 metres taller than the Dublin Spire in O'Connell Street.
The proposed development includes a multi-storey embassy complex and office block, a 232-bedroom luxury hotel and an underground shopping mall.
The cultural element of the scheme, which was devised by Gate Theatre director Michael Colgan, comprises an "art house" cinema, a jazz club, art galleries, artists' studios, music rooms, rehearsal studios and what is billed as a European Centre for Culture.
Altogether, the site would accommodate 536 apartments.
Mr Dunne said this showed that Mountbrook was "playing its part in the need to halt the drastic, unsustainable urban sprawl of Dublin" all over Leinster.