The Treasury Building is an office block and historic site at the corner of Grand Canal Street Lower and Macken Street in

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Boland's Bakery

The site used to be the main site for Boland's Bakery and site was occupied during the

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Treasury Holdings

During the late 1980s, the building was redeveloped by

Treasury Holdings Treasury Holdings was an Irish property development company headed by Johnny Ronan and Richard Barrett. The company, which was insolvent with a huge amount of debt, was wound up in October 2012. History Treasury Holdings was formed in 1989 with ...

. The building was stripped back to a concrete structure and converted into offices.

Aspiration sculpture

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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 John Ronan is an Irish businessman and property developer known for establishing Treasury Holdings in 1989 along with Richard Barrett. Following the Irish property crash in 2008, the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) took over the loans ...

insisted that the sculpture be changed to a woman. The statue was made of

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. The sculpture was removed in 2020 when the building was sold.

Fianna Fáil

During 2007 the building was used by

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as their headquarters for the 2007 election.

National Asset Management Agency

After the

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, the Irish government created the National Asset Management Agency as a

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to deal with the collapse of the property bubble in Ireland. In 2011 the registered office of NAMA was the Treasury building.

Google

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bought the building from Ronan Group Real Estate in February 2020. In February 2022

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granted planning permission to Google Ireland to increase the height of the building from six to eight storeys.

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