One Churchill Place
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One Churchill Place is a 156 m tall skyscraper with 32 floors, and the present (as of 2008) headquarters of Barclays Bank. It is in the Docklands area of London in Canary Wharf. The building is the seventh tallest office block in the United Kingdom and the fourth tallest building in the Docklands after One Canada Square, the HSBC Group Headquarters and the Citigroup Centre.
The building was formally opened in June 2005 by the Chairman of Barclays, Matthew Barrett, and merged many different Barclays offices across London into one building. The former corporate HQ was at 54 Lombard Street in the City of London.
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[edit] Construction
The building was designed by HOK International[1] and constructed by Canary Wharf Contractors.[2]
[edit] Layout
Barclays occupy approximately two-thirds of the building, Levels 17-23 being not presently in use by Barclays, as shown by photographs of the building at night. Floors 18-23 are currently being leased to the London 2012 Olympic organisation and to stockbrokers BGC Partners. Level 17 remains vacant.
- Level -1: Gym
- Ground Floor: Reception
- Level 2: Presentation Suite & Meeting Rooms
- Level 3: Staff restaurant & deli bar, Mail Room & Print Shop
- Levels 4 & 5: Plant
- Levels 6 to 16: Working floors
- Levels 18 to 23: Tenant floors (floors 21, 22 and 23 occupied by London 2012 - LOCOG, ODA and LDA Olympic Land Team and floors 18 and 19 are occupied by BGC Partners)
- Levels 24 to 29: Working floors
- Level 30: Meeting rooms
- Level 31: Executive Committee offices, Boardroom and Executive Dining restaurant
- Living Rooftop
It is linked by underground walkways to the Canada Square shopping mall and Canary Wharf tube station.
[edit] Trivia
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 is unofficially referred to as "The Bungalow" by employees of HSBC at the neighbouring 8 Canada Square.
[edit] References
- ^ Emporis: One Churchill Place
- ^ Britain's first terror-proof skyscraper at Canary Wharf - Emporis, 2002-12-15.
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