Treasury Building
Former namesBoland's Bakery
General information
AddressTreasury Building, Grand Canal Street, Dublin 2
Town or cityDublin
CountryRepublic of Ireland
Coordinates53°20′22″N 6°14′27″W / 53.33952°N 6.24078°W / 53.33952; -6.24078
Current tenantsGoogle
OwnerGoogle
Technical details
Floor count6
Design and construction
DeveloperJohnny 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

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

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

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

During 2007 the building was used by Fianna Fáil as their headquarters for the 2007 election.[2]

National Asset Management Agency

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

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

  1. 1 2 3 "1988 - Treasury Building, Grand Canal Street, Dublin". Archiseek. Archived from the original on 11 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 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.
  3. 1 2 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ "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.
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