Architect: Cesar Pelli Associates
Net Internal Area: 115,000 sq m./1,238,000 sq ft.
Height: 236 metres
No. floors: 50
Construction start date: 1988
Completion date: 1991
When it was completed in 1991, One Canada Square was the highest building in Europe and standing at 236m remains the tallest in the UK. The building is framed from 27,500 tonnes of steel, clad in 47,000 square metres of stainless steel and glass and incorporates sophisticated power, air handling and communications systems. It is designed as a multi tenant building and is home to bankers, national newspapers and an array of commercial and trading organisations, all of whom enter through the nine metre marble-clad lobby and are transported to their office floors by the 32 passenger lifts.
