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HSBC Tower is a skyscraper located in the Canary Wharf development in the London Docklands. The building, whose formal address is 8 Canada Square, serves as the international headquarters for HSBC Holdings PLC (the largest bank in the world by some measures).

The tower was designed by Sir Norman Foster's team of architects. Construction began in 1997 and was completed in 2002. There are 39 office floors in the 200 metre high tower, the second largest in the United Kingdom. Standing alongside the HSBC Tower are 1 Canada Square (known popularly as Canary Wharf); and the Citigroup Centre, which forms the British head office of the multinational US bank, Citigroup. The tower is not open to the public.

The nearest tube station is Canary Wharf, serving the Jubilee Line and Docklands Light Railway. A bus service runs to London City Airport. A small shopping mall is at the base of the development.

External link

Foster and Partners' website (http://www.fosterandpartners.com)

Categories: Tall buildings in London

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1 Canada Square - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (721 words)
	It is named after Canada because it was built by the Canadian firm Olympia and York, which was owned by the Reichmann family.
	The 11 metre (36 ft) high lobby is clad in 90,000 square feet of marble imported from Italy and Guatemala.
	One Canada Square was briefly Europe's tallest skyscraper until the erection of MesseTurm.

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	Canada occupies all of North America N of the United States (and E of Alaska) except for Greenland and the French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon.
	Canada is a federation of 10 provinces—Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia—and three territories—Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and the Yukon Territory.
	Canada is a technologically advanced and industrialized nation, self-sufficient in energy due to its large fossil fuel deposits, nuclear energy generation, and hydroelectric power capacity.

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