All of these iconic buildings around the world will be going green for St. Patrick’s Day

Conor Heneghan

Over 300 stadiums, statues, museums and towers, all over the world.

St. Patrick’s Day is a little over a month away and as is the case every year, people all over the world will be joining in the celebrations on our national holiday.

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, but few national holidays have as much impact around the globe as the one that falls on March 17 and some of the most iconic venues on the planet will be going green to mark the occasion.

Those buildings include the Empire State Building in New York City, Niagara Falls and the Christ the Redeemer Statue in Rio de Janeiro to name but a few, while amongst the new additions in 2018 are the Space Needle in Seattle, the fountains in London’s Trafalgar Square and the San Mamés stadium in Bilbao, the home of Athletic Club Bilbao.

The Sydney Opera House, meanwhile, will once again turn green for the first time in four years, while few cities celebrate St. Patrick’s Day like Chicago, where Navy Pier, the John Hancock Center, the Wrigley Building, the Civic Opera House and Soldier Field will all be turning green this year.

2018 is the ninth year of the Global Greening initiative by Tourism Ireland, who will also mark St. Patrick’s Day by inviting international journalists from top media outlets around the globe to visit Ireland and take in the Dublin St Patrick’s Day parade during their stay.

You can see the full list of buildings going green around the globe on St. Patrick’s Day below and you can also view a list of the destinations Irish Government Ministers will be visiting here.

Landmarks and iconic sites going green in 2018

First-time ‘greenings’ marked *

Great Britain

London Eye
Heron Tower, London
Nelson’s Column, London
Selfridges, London
Selfridges, Birmingham
Selfridges, Manchester
Trafalgar Square fountains, London *
National Football Museum, Manchester *
Town Hall clock, Manchester
Gateshead Millennium Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne

United States

Empire State Building, New York
Wells Fargo building, Albuquerque
Chicago Board of Trade building
Civic Opera House, Chicago
Irish American Heritage Center, Chicago
John Hancock Center, Chicago
Novak Construction, Chicago
Navy Pier, Chicago
One Prudential Plaza, Chicago
Soldier Field, Chicago
State Street, Chicago
Wrigley Building, Chicago
Harbor Bridge, Corpus Christi *
Omni Dallas Hotel
Reunion Tower, Dallas
City Hall, Denver
City Hall, Houston
Junction Bridge pedestrian walkway and Main Street bridge, Little Rock
City Hall, San Francisco
Coit Tower, San Francisco
Space Needle, Seattle *

Canada

Niagara Falls (on both the Canadian and US sides)
Casa Loma, Toronto
City Hall, Toronto
The Distillery District, Toronto
Calgary Tower, Calgary
Chimo the polar bear, Cochrane *
Cochrane Polar Bear Habitat *
Cochrane sign *
Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa
Cabot Tower on Signal Hill, St John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador
The Big Nickel, Sudbury
The Wawa Goose *

Austria

Burgtheater, Vienna
Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History Museum), Vienna *
Naturhistorisches Museum (Natural History Museum), Vienna *
Wiener Riesenrad (ferris wheel), Vienna
Bergiselschanze (ski jump), Innsbruck

Belgium

Grand Place, Brussels
Manneken Pis statue, Brussels (“dressed” in Irish costume)
Town Hall, Dinant *
Celtic Cross, Fontenoy
Belfry, Mons

Croatia

Onofrio Fountain, Dubrovnik *

Cyprus

Municipal Town Hall, Nicosia

Denmark

Nimb Hotel, Copenhagen *
Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Copenhagen

Estonia

Vabaduse Väljak (Freedom Square), Tallinn *

Finland

Ice skating rink, Oulu *

France

Sacré-Cœur Basilica, Paris
Beaugrenelle (shopping centre), Paris *
BHV Marais (Bazar de l’Hôtel de Ville – department store), Paris
Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
Château de la Muette (headquarters of the OECD), Paris
Galeries Lafayette, Paris
Irish Embassy, Paris
Sleeping Beauty castle at Disneyland® Paris
University of Angers – ESTHUA, Angers *
Hôtel de Ville, Cannes
La Croisette, Cannes
La Tour du Suquet, Cannes
Musée de la Castre, Cannes
Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, Cannes
Tapis rouge lumineux (red carpet), Cannes
Secondary school, Châteaudun *
Hôtel de Ville, Grandvilliers
Hôtel de Ville, Mellac
Hôtel de Ville, Royan *
Hôtel de Ville, Saint-Mandé Palais de l’Europe (seat of the Council of Europe), Strasbourg *