One Canada Square

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One Canada Square
One Canada Square
One Canada Square in the middle, the HSBC Tower on the left and the Citigroup Center on the right.
Basic data
Place: London , UK
Construction time : 1988-1991
Status : Built
Architectural style : Modern
Architect : César Pelli , Frederick Gibberd
Use / legal
Usage : offices
Owner : Canary Wharf Group
Client : Sir Robert McAlpine , Ellis Don, teachers McGovern, Bovis, Balfour Beatty, Olympia and York
Technical specifications
Height : 240 m
Height to the roof: 235 m
Rank (height) : 2
Floors : 50
Elevators : 32
Usable area : 162.422 m²
Building material : Steel, stainless steel, concrete, glass
Construction: steel
Building-costs: £ 624,000,000

One Canada Square [ ˈwʌn ˈkænədə ˌskweə ] is the second tallest building in London with a height of 236 meters and 50 floors . Until The Shard was completed, the skyscraper was the tallest habitable building in Britain . For comparison, the Emley Moor television tower , the tallest free-standing structure in Great Britain, near Huddersfield is 330 meters high.

The skyscraper, completed in 1991, was named after Canada because it was built by the Canadian company Olympia and York . Architects were César Pelli with Adamson Associates and Frederick Gibberd Coombes. Shortly after completion, the company went bankrupt. The name of the building is also the address, but the building is also known as the Canary Wharf Tower because it is part of the Canary Wharf office complex in Docklands .

There is no viewing platform and the upper floors of the building are generally not accessible to tourists, but there is a shopping center in the basement. The building is flanked by two other skyscrapers that were built ten years later and are both 200 meters high: HSBC Tower (8 Canada Square) and Citigroup Center (25 Canada Square).

reception

  • In the novel Operation Elite by Matthew Reilly is the building site of a action scene in which the upper floors are almost completely destroyed.
  • In the British television series Doctor Who , One Canada Square Tower is the headquarters of the " Torchwood Institute"; it was built around a dimensional rift and destroyed in a battle against the Daleks and Cybermen .
  • The building is seen twice in the British comedy Johnny English . One houses a hospital and a second right next to it (as a twin tower) houses Pascal Sauvage's office.
  • The tower also appeared several times on the television show The Apprentice.
  • The popular BBC soap opera EastEnders.

Office tenants

Current office tenants

The current office tenants according to Canary Wharf Group plc as of February 14, 2018:

Notable past office tenants

  • Maersk
  • Telegraph Media Group

See also

Web links

Commons : One Canada Square  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Canary Wharf - Fact File - One Canada Square. June 20, 2009, accessed June 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Canary wharf and isle of dogs movie map. May 27, 2008, archived from the original ; accessed on June 12, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Store Guide. April 15, 2018, archived from the original ; accessed on June 12, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 18 ″  N , 0 ° 1 ′ 12 ″  W.