One Canada Square
skyscraper in Canary Wharf, London / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One Canada Square is the second tallest building in the United Kingdom. It is 235 m (771 ft) tall. It is in Canary Wharf.
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One Canada Square | |
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Record height | |
Tallest in the United Kingdom from 1990 to 2012[I] | |
Preceded by | Tower 42 |
Surpassed by | The Shard |
General information | |
Type | Commercial[1] |
Location | Canary Wharf London, E14 United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 51°30′18″N 0°01′10.6″W |
Construction started | 1988 |
Completed | 1991; 33 years ago (1991)[2][3][4] |
Cost | £624 million |
Owner | Canary Wharf Group plc (current majority shareholder is Songbird Estates plc)[5] |
Management | Canary Wharf Group plc |
Height | |
Architectural | 770 ft (235 m)AGL 800 ft (240 m)[6] ASL |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 50[1] |
Floor area | 1,748,296 sq ft (162,422.0 m2)[7] |
Lifts/elevators | 32 + 3 freight + 2 firemen[1] |
Design and construction | |
Architect | César Pelli & Associates[8] Adamson Associates[9] Frederick Gibberd Coombes & Partners[10] |
Developer | Olympia & York[3][11] |
Structural engineer | MS Yolles & Partners Winston Group[12] Waterman Partnership[12] |
Main contractor | Sir Robert McAlpine Ellis Don Lehrer McGovern Bovis Balfour Beatty Olympia & York + approximately 40 sub-contractors |
References | |
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