One Canada Square
Information
Location	London, England
Status	Complete
Constructed	1987-1991
Use	Commercial
Roof	235 meters
Technical Details
Floor count	50
Elevator count	36
Companies
Architect	César Pelli

One Canada Square, a skyscraper in London, England is the tallest habitable building in the United Kingdom, at 235 metres (771 ft) and 50 stories (reduced from original plans for 60). Designed by the Argentine architect César Pelli, construction was completed in 1991. Identifiable from a great distance as an obelisk-shaped tower with its aircraft warning light flashing on top, this building is a monument to 1980s-style capitalism. In 1990, during construction, it surpassed the United Kingdom's previous tallest building, Tower 42 (183 m; 600 ft). Canary Wharf, London, England at night time. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of the United Kingdom and the largest city of England (strangely, England has no constitutional existence within the United Kingdom, and therefore cannot be said to have a capital). ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2005 est. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... César Pelli (born October 12, 1926 in Tucumán, Argentina) is a noted architect known for designing some of the worlds tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. ... Canada Square is also the name of an office/retail complex in Toronto. ... The Sears Tower in Chicago is still the tallest building in the world with its antennas included. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of the United Kingdom and the largest city of England (strangely, England has no constitutional existence within the United Kingdom, and therefore cannot be said to have a capital). ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2005 est. ... The metre, or meter (U.S.), is a measure of length. ... A foot (plural: feet; symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... César Pelli (born October 12, 1926 in Tucumán, Argentina) is a noted architect known for designing some of the worlds tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. ... The Luxor obelisk in the Place de la Concorde in Paris For the obelisk punctuation mark, see dagger (typography). ... Aircraft warning lights are high-intensity lighting devices that are attached to tall structures and used as collision avoidance measures. ... The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ... Tower 42 is the tallest building in the City of London Tower 42 from directly below Tower 42 viewed from street level. ...

The building now has two siblings that have sprung up alongside, which are not quite as tall (at 200 metres each; the pyramid provides the height advantage): HSBC Tower (8-16 Canada Square) and Citigroup Centre (25 Canada Square). HSBC Tower (building to right is occupied by Credit Suisse First Boston and Bank of America) 8 Canada Square (also known as HSBC Group Head Office, or HSBC Tower) is a skyscraper located in the Canary Wharf development in the London Docklands. ... Citigroup Centre The Citigroup Centre is a skyscraper located in the Canary Wharf development in the London Docklands. ...

The building is remarkably similar in design to Three World Financial Center, a sister tower constructed in New York by the same developers and architects shortly before work started at Canary Wharf. The New York building is faced with stone while One Canada Square is faced with stainless steel panels. Three World Financial Center Three World Financial Center is one of the largest skyscrapers in New York City, located on West Street between Liberty and Vesey Streets in Lower Manhattan. ...

Despite its status as the United Kingdom's tallest building, there is no public observation floor; the view from the upper windows is the sole preserve of the building's tenants. However, mirroring New York's World Financial Center, the ground floor, foyer area and basement levels of One Canada Square are open to the general public, housing an underground shopping mall and a transport interchange from Canary Wharf tube and Docklands Light Railway stations. Official language(s) None Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... A view of the World Trade Center, World Financial Center, and Battery Park City from the Hudson River on August 26, 2000. ... A shopping mall (or simply mall), shopping center, or shopping arcade is a building or set of buildings that contain stores, and has interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from store to store. ... The London Underground is an all electric railway system that covers much of the conurbation of Greater London and some neighbouring areas. ... Tube Portal The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is a light rail public transport metro serving the redeveloped Docklands area of east London, England. ...

The square to the east of the tower was named after Canada because it was built by the Canadian firm Olympia and York, which was owned by the Reichmann family. The company went bankrupt in the face of a property crash which caused the upper half of the tower to stand empty for some time following its completion. Olympia and York was a major property firm. ... The Reichmann family is a family best known for controlling the Olympia and York business empire. ... Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an individual or organization to pay their creditors. ...

The building is commonly known as the Canary Wharf Tower after the Canary Wharf business complex of which it is the most prominent feature. It is a conspicuous London landmark, clearly visible at a distance from large areas of South London in particular. It can even be seen from sections of the A2 a full 25 miles from its location. HSBC Tower (left), One Canada Square (centre), Citigroup Centre (right) Canary Wharf in Tower Hamlets, London, England, is a large business development on the Isle of Dogs, centred on the old West India Docks in the London Docklands. ... South London area South London (known colloquially as South of the River) is the area of London south of the River Thames. ...

In November 1992, the Provisional IRA attempted to place a large bomb next to the tower. However, this was spotted by security staff and did not detonate; the tower itself was not damaged. Four years later the IRA did detonate a large bomb at South Quay, south of Canary Wharf, which killed two people and devastated several buildings. This explosion is commonly, but erroneously, referred to as the "Canary Wharf bomb". The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) is a paramilitary group which aimed, through the use of violence, to achieve three goals: (i) British withdrawal from Ireland, (ii) the political unification of Ireland through the merger of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland , and (iii) the creation of an all... South Quay is a Docklands Light Railway station on the Isle of Dogs, in London. ...

A view from the top floor, May 2000

In 2002, French urban climber, Alain Robert, using only his hands and feet and with no safety devices of any kind, scaled the building's exterior wall all the way to the top. Image File history File links A view from the top floor of One Canada Square, May 2000. ... Image File history File links A view from the top floor of One Canada Square, May 2000. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Alain Robert scaling a building using his bare hands, and no equipment. ...

The building houses the offices of several financial institutions as well as several leading British Newspapers including The Daily Mirror, The Sunday Mirror, The Sunday People and The Daily (and Sunday) Telegraph.

General information

• The tower has 4,388 internal steps and 3,960 windows. 32 passenger lifts are in use. The journey from the ground floor to the 50th takes 40 seconds by lift if uninterrupted. There are several floors below ground and an equipment floor above the 50th, so no passenger lift in the building vertically traverses the entire height of the structure. However, there are two freight lifts and two firemen's lifts that travel to all floors.^[1]

• The 11 metre (36 ft) high lobby is clad in 90,000 square feet of marble imported from Italy and Guatemala.

• The building is sometimes referred to as the 'vertical Fleet Street', after several of London's newspapers moved from Fleet Street in the City of London to One Canada Square.

• One Canada Square is often mistakenly referred to as Canary Wharf: the origin of this is from the building's dominance over the development.

• The light on at the tower's crown, is an aircraft warning light that warns air traffic from the nearby London City Airport of the tower. It flashes 40 times a minute, 57,600 times a day.

• Construction of the tower was halted from March to June 1990, when the building workers went on strike.

• The tower's loading bay handles over 80,000 deliveries each year.

• One Canada Square was briefly Europe's tallest skyscraper until the erection of MesseTurm in Frankfurt, Germany.

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Companies currently in the building

• Bank of New York
• Bear Stearns International
• Burlington Resources
• Canary Wharf Group PLC
• Cass Business School — Canary Wharf Campus
• Citibank
• Clearstream Banking
• Coutts & Co
• EULER Trade Indemnity
• European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries Associations
• E*Trade
• GATX International Limited
• International Grains Council [1]
• International Sugar Organization
• KPMG
• Maersk Company
• Maine Tucker
• Novartis Europharm
• Primus Communication
• Quadrant Capital
• Regus Business Centers
• Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
• State Street
• Swiss Stock Exchange/Virt-X
• Teach First
• Telegraph Group Limited
• Trinity Mirror
• Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des produits de santé

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One Canada Square in popular culture

A near future sequence in the novel Freezeframes by Katharine Kerr, shows One Canada Square as a free college and youth drop-in centre. It is nicknamed "Major's Last Erection", although hardly anyone remembers who John Major actually was, and most assume it refers to an army major. Katharine Kerr (born 1944) is a science fiction and fantasy novelist, best known for her series of Celtic-influenced high fantasy novels set in the fictional land of Deverry. ... Sir John Major KG, CH (born 29 March 1943) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997. ...

One Canada Square also features prominently in an early issue of the Grant Morrison comic series The Invisibles, in which Dane MacGowan is encouraged to jump from the top by his mentor, Tom O'Bedlam, as an initation rite that will allow him to see beyond reality and join The Invisibles. Grant Morrison (born January 31, 1960, Glasgow) is a Scottish comic book writer and artist. ... Cover to The Invisibles (v2) #1. ...

In the British television series Doctor Who, One Canada Square is the location of the headquarters of the London branch of the Torchwood Institute. Known as the "Torchwood Tower" to those in the know, the main purpose of One Canada Square is to investigate a hole in reality 600 feet above London created by a Dalek Void Ship. One Canada Square previously appeared in the Virgin Missing Adventures novel Millennial Rites in which the top floor was the headquarters of a yuppie who inadvertently turned London into a "dark fantasy" kingdom in which he was a powerful sorcerer, with the tower as his citadel. Doctor hoe is a long-running nudistBritish science fiction television programmar (and 1996 television movie) produced by the BBC about a mysterious time-travelling adventurer known as The Doctor, who explores time and space with his companions, fighting evil. ... The Torchwood Institute is a fictional organisation from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spin-off series, Torchwood. ... The Daleks (pronounced DAH-lecks; IPA: ) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Virgin Missing Adventures (often referred to simply as MAs in fandom) were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, which had been cancelled in 1989, continuing the story of the series from where the television programme had left off. ... Millennial Rites is an original novel written by Craig Hinton and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Dark fantasy has yet to be solidly connected to its own particular subgenre of Fantasy. ...

In the movies One Canada Square has appeared as the CIA's London listening station in The Bourne Supremacy. For the film see: The Bourne Supremacy (film) The Bourne Supremacy (ISBN 0553263226) is a novel written by Robert Ludlum and a sequel to The Bourne Identity. ...

In Johnny English One Canada Square had another identical building next to it. One of the One Canada Square buildings was a hospital and the other was villain Pascall Sauvage's HQ. Johnny English (2003) is a comic movie parodying the James Bond secret agent genre, starring Rowan Atkinson as the incompetent British spy of the title, with John Malkovich, Natalie Imbruglia and Ben Miller, and featuring a unique car chase. ...

See also

• Canary Wharf
• London
• Skyscraper
• List of tallest buildings and structures in London
• List of tallest buildings and structures in Great Britain
• Shard London Bridge — soon to be the tallest building in London

HSBC Tower (left), One Canada Square (centre), Citigroup Centre (right) Canary Wharf in Tower Hamlets, London, England, is a large business development on the Isle of Dogs, centred on the old West India Docks in the London Docklands. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of the United Kingdom and the largest city of England (strangely, England has no constitutional existence within the United Kingdom, and therefore cannot be said to have a capital). ... The Sears Tower in Chicago is still the tallest building in the world with its antennas included. ... Londons three tallest buildings at Canary Wharf, the HSBC building 200 m, One Canada Square 235 m, and the Citigroup Centre 200 m. ... A list of the tallest structures in Great Britain. ... Shard London Bridge, set to become the tallest building in Western Europe. ...

References

1. ^ http://www.canarywharf.com/factfile/1can_pagr2.htm

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