Treasury Building (Dublin)
| Treasury Building | |
|---|---|
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| Former names | Boland's Bakery |
| General information | |
| Address | Treasury Building, Grand Canal Street, Dublin 2 |
| Town or city | Dublin |
| Country | Republic of Ireland |
| Coordinates | 53°20′22″N 6°14′27″W / 53.33952°N 6.24078°W |
| Current tenants | |
| Owner | |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 6 |
| Design and construction | |
| Developer | Johnny Ronan and Treasury Holdings |
The Treasury Building is an office block and historic site at the corner of Grand Canal Street Lower and Macken Street in Dublin.
Boland's Bakery
[edit]The site used to be the main site for Boland's Bakery and site was occupied during the Easter Rising by Éamon de Valera.[1]
Treasury Holdings
[edit]During the late 1980s, the building was redeveloped by Treasury Holdings.[1] The building was stripped back to a concrete structure and converted into offices.[1]
Aspiration sculpture
[edit]Rowan Gillespie was commissioned to create a sculpture for the outside wall of the building.[2] The statue, named 'Aspiration', was originally of a naked man climbing the outside wall, but Johnny Ronan insisted that the sculpture be changed to a woman.[2] The statue was made of fibreglass.[2] The sculpture was removed in 2020 when the building was sold.[3]
Fianna Fáil
[edit]During 2007 the building was used by Fianna Fáil as their headquarters for the 2007 election.[2]
National Asset Management Agency
[edit]After the Post-2008 Irish economic downturn, the Irish government created the National Asset Management Agency as a bad bank to deal with the collapse of the property bubble in Ireland.[4] In 2011 the registered office of NAMA was the Treasury building.[5]
Google bought the building from Ronan Group Real Estate in February 2020.[3] In February 2022 Dublin City Council granted planning permission to Google Ireland to increase the height of the building from six to eight storeys.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "1988 - Treasury Building, Grand Canal Street, Dublin". Archiseek. Archived from the original on 11 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
- ^ a b c d Murphy, Cormac (27 November 2012). "Statue got sex change as ex-billionaire Ronan didn't want naked man on Treasury building". Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 11 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
- ^ a b Keena, Colm (4 December 2020). "Naked woman removed from Treasury Building in Dublin". Irish Times. Archived from the original on 11 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
- ^ Finn, Christina (1 March 2016). "Explainer: Why is everyone talking about Nama again?". TheJournal.ie. Archived from the original on 11 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
- ^ Daly, Frank; McDonagh, Brendan (29 June 2012). "National Asset Management Agency - National Asset Management Agency Annual Report and Financial Statements 2011 National Asset Management Agency Treasury Building Grand Canal Street Dublin 2 Ireland Tel: +353 1 664 0800 +353 1 665 0000 Fax: +353 1 664 0890 www.nama.ie Annual Report and Financial Statements 2011" (PDF). National Asset Management Agency. p. 62. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 September 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
- ^ "Google secures planning for new Dublin office campus". RTÉ News. 1 February 2022. Archived from the original on 11 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.