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One Churchill Place
One Churchill Place
	; One Churchill Place
General information
Location	1 Churchill Place; Tower Hamlets, London
Status	Complete
Constructed	2003-2004
Opening	2005
Height
Roof	156 m (512 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	32
Companies involved
Architect	HOK International

Coordinates: 51°30′19.8″N 00°00′50.4″W / 51.5055°N 0.014°W / 51.5055; -0.014

One Churchill Place is a 156 m tall skyscraper with 32 floors, currently serving as the 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.

[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. Floors 18-23 are currently being leased to the London 2012 Olympic organisation and to BGC Partners.Increasingly the premises are now used on a hotdesking basis to accommodate more mobile working.

Level -1: Gym
Ground Floor: Reception
Level 2: Presentation suite and meeting rooms
Level 3: Staff restaurant and deli bar, mail room and print shop
Levels 4 & 5: Plant
Levels 6 to 16: Working floors
Levels 17 to 23: Tenant floors (floors 17, 21, 22 and 23 occupied by London 2012 - LOCOG, ODA, LDA Olympic Legacy Directorate and Olympic Security Directorate and floors 18, 19 and 20 are occupied by BGC Partners)
Levels 24 to 29: Working floors
Level 30: Meeting rooms
Level 31: Executive offices

It is linked by 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.

The building was originally planned to be 50 stories in height, but was scaled down to 31 after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

[edit] References

^ Emporis: One Churchill Place
^ Britain's first terror-proof skyscraper at Canary Wharf - Emporis, 2002-12-15.

[edit] See also

London portal

Tall buildings in London

[edit] External links

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[0] Emporis: One Churchill Place

[1] Britain's first terror-proof skyscraper at Canary Wharf - Emporis, 2002-12-15.

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