Someone in the Central Bank must be smoking something serious.
**The Bahamas Government "has no money" for this.**

Please make a statement that this building is just a dream for when the country is rich>

Besides the Central Bank, especially the Banks Supervision Department has done nothing for the last 35 years, so they certainly don't need any more space.

The Money from Dormant/inactive accounts can go a long way in financing this Building.

Apparently the Central Bank hasn't noticed that offshore banks are closing faster than we can think.

So what was the point of “People’s choice” component if people’s choice was clearly ignored? The “winning” design is impossible to build and does not work for this climate.

Mudda sic dred...fully agree wid you Economist...dey smoking sometjing serious.!!!

Govt trying to balance the budget and all dem past govt policoes that the Central Bank saw nothing wrong wid govt wasting money, national debt run up, ......even the Bank of the Bahamas bin suing Central Bank, ..billion dollar mortgage loan defaults crippling country....plenty losing homes left right centre......banks pulling out of major islands....consumers complaining over 100% plus increase in bank fees, complaints Central Bank support previous govt carrying too much govt short term securities, owing 40 % Bisx whichin everybody shares traded,.........muddoes dred....and 40-45,000 peoples jnder poverth line, 1 in 8 going to bed hungry......govt laying off people.....post office moving outta downtown to Gladstone road......an yall looking to gets rewarded..?.new building......yall better computerize like the banks yall supposed to oversee an try replace people wid computers.....stop the regressive mentality an move wid the rest of the world.....an try sharing or better sell dat stuff dat yall on ...cause it seem medical grade....

Hurricane impactful...with the amount of exposed glass it will all have to be impact resistant and aalso tinted for temperature control. The design itself is more on the level of a crypto coin..futuristic. Not the usual "stretched box" or "several boxes put together", that we are used to seing. but yet more Downtown, Manhattan, NY, than Nassau, Bahamas. But will it be built? And if it is will it be able to draw other buildings to adapt to its design?

Where will it be built?? ....... What will the old CBOB building be used for???
How much will this new CBOB cost???? ........ probably $50-60M?????

On the old Victoria Hotel Property...East side of Parliament Street, going from Shirley Street up to the Post office.

It will be a shame to destroy all of those large old trees in the Royal Victoria compound to build a Parliament of reasonable size with parking etc.
There are more suitable places between Arawak Cay and the Bridge to build these public buildings ........ Good time to change the downtown roadways to make it a no-vehicle zone and a more pedestrian-friendly and cultural aura.

Every major City in the world has an **iconic structure** that is known world wide. Some examples that come to mind are the Sidney opera house, The bird nest in china, The Burj al Arab and the Emirate tower two in Dubai. This design with the curved sides reflect or resembles a sail boat and it will represent a status symbol for this island city as a tourist destination especially if located on the present hill top site of the general post office. This biulding will be one of the first land mark tourist see when entering nassau habour. . Never mind the cost, the central bank will finance this independantly of the government. It will be a tourist attraction and green technology used in its construction, this building will be an edifice that will make all Bahamians proud. A Building like this along with our airport design and Baha Nar and Atlantis are establishing this country as a destination like none other especially in the Carribean central america region..

How can the Central Bank building be the iconic landmark for Nassau??
Downtown has a vertical ceiling law. Parliament needs to be placed on the old Post Office site.

Parliament can go on the old Ministry of health property just across the road from the general post office. That vertical ceiling law must be done away with if the plan to make Bay street a living city is to be realized.

I say leave the cielding right where it is, nothing eclipses a beautiful skyline...curses on the pointe

Now we need a new Parliament design ..... six stories like the new CBOB.

Agreed....i am sure those MP's could get something right and have a design competition at two levels. One for students and one for the professionals.

The postoffice site I understand was the homestead ofone branch of the Malcolm family who served the nation speaker judge and the site was given to the people on which the govt built the post office
The site should be used for a Parliament buildong to benefit all. Hospital site should be green space
The 4 storey limit seems to have changed and will affect construction downtown Bay St starting with Pointe. It is likely any possible view will be blocked as any developer will want to go higher.
Central Bank should be moved outside city as most business is and should be electroniclly done.
We need to put more structures outside instead to conpact small inner spaces further.

I like it. It was certainly the most detailed and thought out design. I don't think it should be built anytime soon however! BUT if not now - when?

I don't like it. It looks like something from Star Trek. The colonial designs are more suited to our island life. First of all when you are erecting these big structures you should have a large piece of property so that the building can be well away from the street. At the moment I don't see any of the downtown areas having that kind of land space. More importantly down town is already congested and without room to move. A building of this size means that people, cars and more traffic are coming to the jammed up space. Come on people we need to stop thinking for one moment in time. If we don't do something radical within twenty years we won't have space to move. Our thoughts need to be based on moving away from the broken city that has been abandoned. People for whatever reason are not interested in Bay Street as we knew it to be in the 50s and 60s......Let's stop validating ourselves by looking at Australia and New York City and thinking we are more than simply because we can erect big buildings. In fact if we would use our brains we will see that we really don't need buildings to run our offices. Offices are being run from smart phones and laptops.

$50,000 wasted by John Rolle and the Board of the Central Bank. Disgustingly unaffordable and uneconomical in too many obvious ways to even bother elaborating on.

I love it!
But how the hell are they gonna pay for it?

I can think of a hundred and one ways money could be better spent. For starters, this country needs a detention center and marine outpost on one of our southern islands far more than it needs a new Central Bank!

The Central Bank Govenor John Rolle indidicated there is a preference for this massive structure site for the Victoria Gardens site ........so more importantly what would the plans for the House of our Almighty Lord and Saviour Zion Baptist Church that is located on the north east corner????

Nice but RIDICULOUS for Nassau, particularly with our economic constraints. Sometimes I fear our Government and its support folk have birdseed for brains.