One Rathbone Square

One Rathbone Square is a commercial building in London, and was the UK headquarters of Facebook.

One Rathbone Square
Facebook London (former)
Location within Greater London
Former names	35-50 Rathbone Place
General information
Type	Company headquarters
Address	1 Rathbone Square, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 1FB
Coordinates	51.517°N 0.1343°W / 51.517; -0.1343
Elevation	25 m (82 ft)
Current tenants	Facebook London
Construction started	July 2014
Completed	March 2017
Inaugurated	4 December 2017
Client	Facebook UK Ltd
Technical details
Floor count	7
Floor area	242,800 square feet (22,560 m2)
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Graham Longman
Architecture firm	Make Architects, Frank Gehry[1]
Structural engineer	AKT II
Services engineer	Hilson Moran

History

Rathbone Square is a 2.3 acres (0.93 ha) development in central London. The site was bought from Royal Mail Group for £120m in September 2011; it was the former West End Delivery Office.

Design

Planning consent was granted from Westminster City Council in February 2014. The main architect for the site was Graham Longman; Make Architects were given the project in October 2011.

Construction

Construction began in July 2014, with demolition of the former seven-storey site. Main construction began in 2015.

Structure

It is situated off Oxford Street, in the east of the City of Westminster, and is on the boundary with the London Borough of Camden. It is about 500m south-east of the BT Tower, which can be seen along the neighbouring Rathbone Place. The site costs Facebook £17.8m per year to rent, with a fifteen-year term on the contract.^[2]

It features a build called LDN_LAB, a business incubator for tech startup companies.

See also

• Principal Place, Amazon UK headquarters in Shoreditch on Bishopsgate (A10)