The room is one of thousands in a group of towers somewhere on the Irish coast, or any coast.
Luckily, a side gate is open, and Mr. Barnes leads a visitor around back to a sculpture court centered on a group of towering Norway spruces.
In the main exhibition space stands a group of towers by the German artist Isa Genzken – shiny aluminium, moiré-patterned grilles, marble-effect Formica and flatly painted colour.
Instead of each organisation within the group making its own arrangements, the parent body sets up a group of towers for different service areas – such as desktops, applications, hosting and networks – to be used by all of its bodies.
Initially picked on by a group of towering girls known as the Jackies for the gang's predominant name, scorned for apostrophe use and generally facing social death, I felt myself sinking into the required attitude of inertia or indifference.
When you disembarked from a train and walked to your dacha, you were much more likely to meet a group of towering basketball players from Ghana than a classic Russian babushka with her shawl and walking stick.
But a few vocal groups of tower supporters insist that a large segment of the public is on their side.
When Walsh was a boy, a group of residential towers called the Swan's Nest Court were built in Kilbarrack; the towers fell into disrepair and have since been torn down.
A masterplan to build a group of 10 towers with a "recommended" maximum height of 150 metres around Alexanderplatz was approved by the senate in 1993 but not acted on for more than 20 years.
Today the company's projects here include multifamily construction in the shadow of office buildings that it developed in the Galleria, a group of office towers, hotels and retail on the southwestern rim of Loop 610, with a skyline that rivals downtown's.
