The Civic Offices home of the executive & administrative arm of Dublin City Council.

Much of the council's administrative staff are based in the Civic Offices on Wood Quay. These offices are built on top of what had been one of the best preserved Viking sites in the world. The Corporation's (as it was then) decision to bulldoze the historic site proved one of the most controversial in modern Irish history, with thousands of people, including medieval historian Fr. F.X. Martin and Senator Mary Robinson (later President of Ireland) marching to try to stop the destruction. The destruction of the site on Wood Quay and the building of a set of offices known as The Bunkers (because of their appearance) is generally seen as one of the most disastrous acts against Ireland's heritage since independence, with even Dublin Corporation admitting subsequently that it was ashamed of its action. Originally, there were to be four of these bunkers built but only two were ever completed. Instead the river frontage is a less brutal office block designed by the firm Scott Tallon Walker.

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