Skyscraper in Heron Quays, Docklands, London
40 Bank Street is a
skyscraper in
Heron Quays which overlooks the
London Docklands .
[2]
[3] It is 153 metres (502 ft) tall, having 30 stories and a total floor area of 634,000-square-feet.
[4]
[5] The building was designed by
Cesar Pelli & Associates ,
[6] and was built by
Canary Wharf Contractors in 2003.
[4]
[7] The executive architect was
Adamson Associates .
[7]
[8] As of 2023, the
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat lists 40 Bank Street as the 31st
tallest building in London and the 35th
tallest building in the United Kingdom .
[9]
Design and development
During a wave of development in the early 2000s, 40 Bank Street became one of the first six skyscrapers to be built on Canary Wharf after
One Canada Square (along with
8 Canada Square ,
25 Canada Square ,
One Churchill Place ,
25 Bank Street , and
10 Upper Bank Street ).
[10] Immediately to the west of 40 Bank Street is 25 Bank Street, a skyscraper of the same height, while to the east is a shorter building, 50 Bank Street , which matches the style of 40 Bank Street.
[7] These latter three buildings were all designed by Pelli and are connected by glass
winter gardens .
[7] 40 Bank Street connects to
Jubilee Place , an underground shopping mall.
[2]
40 Bank Street is the most slender of the three towers
speculatively built by Canary Wharf Group on Heron Quays (the others being 25 Bank Street and One Churchill Place).
[2] Whereas 25 Bank Street was designed in the
International Style , 40 Bank Street is a
modernist structure .
[7]
[1] The building has uniformly spaced windows bounded by a light-coloured stone facade—recalling the 1980s-style buildings in the area—except for a glass section which runs along the side and onto the top of the structure.
[7]
[8] The solid facade meets the glass
curtain walls in such a way as to give the impression that two different buildings have been fused together, an effect that Pelli also employed at the
World Financial Center in
New York City .
[2] The windows are slightly recessed from the facade, giving the illusion, in certain lightning, that the windows are hollow openings.
[11] The proportion between the window openings along the curtain wall was chosen in order to emphasise the height of the building.
[8]
Construction on 40 Bank Street began in 2000 and was completed in 2003.
[9]
[2] The curtain walls were manufactured by
Permasteelisa .
[8] In 2023, Canary Wharf Group completed renovations of the lobby, including security updates.
[3]
Occupants
The original tenants at 40 Bank Street were
Allen & Overy and
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom .
[7]
[12] Skadden, after consultation with
JLL , left 40 Bank Street in 2021 and relocated to
22 Bishopsgate .
[13]
[14] Allen & Overy tested workspace concepts in 40 Bank Street prior their expansion to
Bishops Square .
[15] Allen & Overy sublet two floors of the building in 2013, at £35 per sq ft.
[16]
In 2022, Canary Wharf Group began offering fully-fitted office space at 40 Bank Street, with
Citibank being its first customer.
[17]
[18]
[19]
[5] In 2023,
HVIVO , a research group specialising in
human trials signed a ten-year lease for 39,000 square feet of office space at 40 Bank Street.
[5]
References
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"London's Canary Wharf Lands Expanding Life Sciences Group as Estate Moves Ahead" .
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ISBN
9783764376543 .
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^ Barras, Richard (2023).
Monumental London: From Roman Colony to Global City . Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 382–383.
doi :
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978-3-031-38402-8 .
S2CID
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^ Agnieszka Zimnicka; Ewa Balanicka; Aleksandra Kroll (2021).
"Evolution in Approach to Colour in Tall Buildings' Architecture on the Isle of Dogs, London, UK" . Arts . 11 (9): 6.
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^ Hamnett, Chris (2004). Unequal City: London in the Global Arena . Routledge. p. 56.
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^ Dransfield, Louise (14 January 2020).
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^ Malpas, John.
"Skadden to move back to the City of London after 25 years at Canary Wharf" .
The Global Legal Post . Retrieved 18 December 2023 .
^ Clements-Croome, Derek, ed. (2006). Creating the Productive Workplace (2 ed.). Taylor & Francis.
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"Two sign at 40 Bank Street, E14" . EG Radius . Retrieved 18 December 2023 .
^ Tansley, Ella (22 February 2022).
"Canary Wharf Expands Portfolio with Flexible Office Space" . TWinFM . Retrieved 18 December 2023 .
^ Bean, Sara (21 February 2022).
"Canary Wharf Group launches a new managed office space, with Citi as first customer" . Facilities Management Journal . Retrieved 18 December 2023 .
^ Hammond, George (19 February 2022).
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Financial Times . Retrieved 18 December 2023 .
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