Treasury Building (Dublin)
{{Short description|Office block on historic bakery site, Dublin, Ireland}}
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| address = Treasury Building, Grand Canal Street, Dublin 2
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The Treasury Building is an office block and historic site at the corner of Grand Canal Street Lower and Macken Street in Dublin.
The site used to be the main site for Boland's Bakery and site was occupied during the Easter Rising by Éamon de Valera.{{Cite web|url=http://www.archiseek.com/2010/1988-treasury-building-grand-canal-street-dublin/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220211/http://www.archiseek.com/2010/1988-treasury-building-grand-canal-street-dublin/ |archive-date=2022-02-11 |url-status=live|title=1988 - Treasury Building, Grand Canal Street, Dublin|access-date=2022-02-11|website=Archiseek}}{{cbignore}}
During the late 1980s, the building was redeveloped by Treasury Holdings. The building was stripped back to a concrete structure and converted into offices.
Rowan Gillespie was commissioned to create a sculpture for the outside wall of the building. 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. The statue was made of fibreglass. The sculpture was removed in 2020 when the building was sold.{{Cite news|title=Naked woman removed from Treasury Building in Dublin|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/naked-woman-removed-from-treasury-building-in-dublin-1.4427963 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220211/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/naked-woman-removed-from-treasury-building-in-dublin-1.4427963 |archive-date=2022-02-11 |url-status=live|last=Keena|first=Colm|date=2020-12-04|access-date=2022-02-11|work=Irish Times}}{{cbignore}}
The building was used by Fianna Fáil as their headquarters for the 2007 election.{{Cite news|title=Statue got sex change as ex-billionaire Ronan didn’t want naked man on Treasury building|url=https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/statue-got-sex-change-as-ex-billionaire-ronan-didnt-want-naked-man-on-treasury-building-28940311.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220211/https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/statue-got-sex-change-as-ex-billionaire-ronan-didnt-want-naked-man-on-treasury-building-28940311.html |archive-date=2022-02-11 |url-status=live|last=Murphy|first=Cormac|date=2012-11-27|access-date=2022-02-11|work=Irish Independent}}{{cbignore}}
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.{{Cite news|title=Explainer: Why is everyone talking about Nama again?|url=https://www.thejournal.ie/nama-cushnaha-project-eagle-2634739-Mar2016/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220211/https://www.thejournal.ie/nama-cushnaha-project-eagle-2634739-Mar2016/ |archive-date=2022-02-11 |url-status=live|last=Finn|first=Christina|date=2016-03-01|access-date=2022-02-11|work=TheJournal.ie}}{{cbignore}} In 2011 the registered office of NAMA was the Treasury building.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nama.ie/uploads/documents/NAMAAnnualReport2011.pdf#page=65 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924105553/https://www.nama.ie/uploads/documents/NAMAAnnualReport2011.pdf |archive-date=2020-09-24 |url-status=live|page=62|title=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|date=2012-06-29|access-date=2022-02-11|website=National Asset Management Agency|last=Daly|first=Frank|last2=McDonagh|first2=Brendan}}
Google bought the building from Ronan Group Real Estate in February 2020. In February 2022 Dublin City Council granted planning permission to Google Ireland to increase the height of the building from six to eight storeys.{{Cite news|title=Google secures planning for new Dublin office campus|url=https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2022/0201/1277209-google-secures-planning-for-new-dublin-office-campus/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220211/https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2022/0201/1277209-google-secures-planning-for-new-dublin-office-campus/ |archive-date=2022-02-11 |url-status=live|date=2022-02-01|access-date=2022-02-11|publisher=RTÉ News}}{{cbignore}}