High-RiseLiving: Three Dubliners give their views.

Wendy Grant, stylist

I grew up in the country so I love gardens. Also, I think that living in a high-rise wouldn't suit my job as I'm forever carrying props around for photo shoots and a broken lift would be disastrous. There are also the logistics of moving in furniture. If you really set your heart on a certain large bed you might find that you have to crane it in through a window.

The only way I'd be tempted into a high-rise would be if it was amazing architecturally and was a building that challenged the cityscape.

The building would have to be so well designed that it wouldn't date. Georgian houses haven't dated, they're still covetable, whereas the Ballymun flats were of their time. If I did live in a high-rise it would have to be all or nothing - I'd want the penthouse to get a bit of a garden and the ultimate in high-rise rather than being stuck in the middle of the tower somewhere in no-man's land.

Dee Maher, graphic designer

High-rise living wouldn't worry me but apartment living does. I live in a house because I've had enough of apartment living. Having rented a few I've learnt the hard way that one man's ceiling is another man's floor.

In one apartment I rented the landlord was too mean to buy a new washing machine so ours kept leaking into the apartment below, which the woman living there owned. Three times our machine leaked into her apartment, once after she'd had it redecorated. It was a nightmare.

Living high up would appeal to me, though. I like the idea of having a different view. We're so used to seeing things at street level in the city. It would be lovely to see birds and cranes. You'd feel that you had more privacy being up above the city.

Philip Lauterbach, photographer

Having lived in a 40th floor apartment in New York I would definitely live in a high-rise again. There's a lovely tranquil feeling when you're up on the 40th floor.

You lose the sense of the city and the noise of traffic which becomes a distant hum.

My apartment had views up the Hudson river which was like watching a silent movie. The views are really important so the windows are what make such buildings.

I did a photo shoot in the Trump Tower which has floor-to-ceiling windows so you almost feel as if you're going to fall off.