Central Bank Of Ireland Building
The central bank of ireland irish.
Central bank of ireland building. The central bank of ireland is now a multi award winning building and the most recent award was by the riai at their awards ceremony on friday the 23 rd in dublin s mansion house. The building won the best universal design award a significant accolade from the architectural community to what is an iconic building. Innovative and unique it is the first office fit out in ireland to achieve an oustanding breeam environmental rating and the first ber a2 energy rated commercial development in ireland. T he building was for long the symbol of ireland s catastrophic financial.
Spencer dock was an office block building the central bank had rented since 2008. Each floor was built on the ground and then raised into place. The design of the central bank of ireland maximises the potential of the existing structure its river views and orientation. The central bank s plan to spend as much as 140m on the completion of its new headquarters is almost twice what it would cost to build a new office block of the same size from scratch.
In november 2015 the central bank purchased this building for 104 million. It was the issuer of irish pound banknotes and coinage until the introduction of the euro currency and now provides this service for the european. The 140m project will be home to 1 459 work stations on 8 floors above. Speaking at the event carole pollard president riai said.
The central bank bought a partially constructed building at north wall quay for 7 million in 2012. Banc ceannais na héireann is ireland s central bank and as such part of the european system of central banks escb. It is the country s financial services regulator for most categories of financial firms. It started life as the planned new headquarters of anglo irish bank but 140m later it will house the central bank.