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Thu 03 Mar 2007Objections to Foster's 'skycatcher' plan for ClarenceAn Taisce, the Irish Georgian Society and planning activist Michael Smith are among objectors to the €150 million revamp designed by celebrated London architects Foster and Partners of the Clarence Hotel on Dublin's Wellington Quay.Nine individuals and groups have written to Dublin City Council to object to the scheme, which will see the Clarence transformed from a 44-bedroom boutique hotel into a five-star 141-bedroom hotel, with a large spa, signature restaurant, bar and freshfood market laid out over nine storeys.