Southwark Towers

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Southwark Towers, London
Under demolition

Southwark Towers was a high rise building at 32 London Bridge Street, designed by tp bennett architects, overlooking London Bridge station, in Southwark, London. Completed in 1975,[1] it was 100 metres tall and had 25 floors[2] in three wings. Southwark Towers was formerly the London office of Price Waterhouse before it merged with Coopers & Lybrand in 1998.[3] In 2008[2] it was demolished to make way for The Shard.[4]

See also

  • Tall buildings in London

References

  1. ↑ "Change of Address" (classified advertisement by Price Waterhouse & Co.), The Times, 1975-12-01, p.22
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Southwark Towers, London". Skyscraperpage. Retrieved 2012-07-06. 
  3. ↑ "Shard construction moves closer with £196 million deal". London SE1. 19 September 2006. Retrieved 7 July 2010. 
  4. ↑ "Qatar's Shard the tallest building in Europe now". Gulf-times.com. 3 January 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2012. 

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Coordinates: 51°30′16.3″N 0°5′11.2″W / 51.504528°N 0.086444°W / 51.504528; -0.086444

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