40 Bank Street
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General information
TypeOffice
Architectural styleModernism[1]
LocationLondon, E14
Construction started2000
Completed2003
Height
Roof153 metres (502 ft)
Technical details
Floor count30
Design and construction
Architect(s)Cesar Pelli & Associates
DeveloperCanary Wharf Group

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

  1. ^ a b "40 Bank Street". Emporis. Archived from the original on 22 June 2004. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e Wright, Herbert (2006). "40 Bank Street". London High: A Guide to the Past, Present and Future of London's Skycrapers. Frances Lincoln. pp. 203–204.
  3. ^ a b "Canary Wharf tower gets bespoke security upgrade". RIBA Journal. 5 January 2023. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Canary Wharf Contractors". Archived from the original on 21 October 2007. Retrieved 9 December 2007.
  5. ^ a b c Norman, Paul (12 September 2023). "London's Canary Wharf Lands Expanding Life Sciences Group as Estate Moves Ahead". CoStar. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
  6. ^ Ken Allinson; Victoria Thornton (2014). London's Contemporary Architecture: An Explorer's Guide (6 ed.). Routledge. p. 135.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g Jones, Will. "Next in line". Building. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
  8. ^ a b c d Crosbie, Michael J. (2005). Curtain Walls: Recent Developments by Cesar Pelli & Associates. Basel: Birkhäuser. pp. 166–171. ISBN 9783764376543.
  9. ^ a b "40 Bank Street". Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
  10. ^ Barras, Richard (2023). Monumental London: From Roman Colony to Global City. Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 382–383. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-38403-5. ISBN 978-3-031-38402-8. S2CID 264494089.
  11. ^ 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. doi:10.3390/arts11010009.
  12. ^ Hamnett, Chris (2004). Unequal City: London in the Global Arena. Routledge. p. 56. ISBN 1134371381.
  13. ^ Dransfield, Louise (14 January 2020). "Skadden hires JLL to weigh London office move". EG Radius. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ Clements-Croome, Derek, ed. (2006). Creating the Productive Workplace (2 ed.). Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0415351375.
  16. ^ Bourke, Joanna (20 September 2013). "Two sign at 40 Bank Street, E14". EG Radius. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
  17. ^ Tansley, Ella (22 February 2022). "Canary Wharf Expands Portfolio with Flexible Office Space". TWinFM. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
  18. ^ 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.
  19. ^ Hammond, George (19 February 2022). "Canary Wharf launches flexible office service as work patterns shift". Financial Times. Retrieved 18 December 2023.

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