Completed 2004 Roof 156 m (512 ft) Height 156 m Opened June 2005 Construction started 2003 | Opening 2005 Floor count 32 Floors 30 Architecture firm HOK | |
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Location Canary Wharf
London, E14
United Kingdom Similar 10 Upper Bank Street, 8 Canada Square, 25 Bank Street, 40 Bank Street, One Canada Square | ||
One Churchill Place is a 156 m tall skyscraper with 32 floors, serving as the headquarters of Barclays Bank. It is in the Docklands area of London Borough of Tower Hamlets in Canary Wharf. The building is the 13th-tallest office block in the United Kingdom and the sixth tallest building in the Docklands.
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Map of One Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London, UK
The building was formally opened in June 2005 by the Chairman of Barclays, Matthew Barrett, and merged Barclays offices across London into one building. The former corporate HQ was at 54 Lombard Street in the City of London.
Barclays occupy approximately 90% of the building, floors 18-20 are leased to BGC Partners/Cantor Fitzgerald.
Construction
The building was designed by HOK International and constructed by Canary Wharf Contractors.
Designed after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the building is constructed around four staircase columns with a large, central column containing the lifts and toilet facilities. The building manual states that there is enough room in these columns to contain everyone who works in the building, in the event of a security alert.
The building was planned to be 50 storeys in height, but was scaled down to 31 after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Layout
Increasingly the premises are now used on a hotdesking basis to accommodate more agile and collaborative working.
It is linked by walkways to the Canada Square shopping mall and Canary Wharf tube station.