One Churchill Place
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Image:Barclays HQ.jpg One Churchill Place is the new headquarters of Barclays Bank. It is in the Docklands area of London in Canary Wharf.
It is a skyscraper which is 156 m tall and has 32 floors. The architect is HOK International. 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 Headquarters and the Citigroup Centre.
The building was formally opened in June 2005 by the Chairman, Matthew Barrett, and the project represented the bringing together of many different Barclays offices across London into one building. The former corporate HQ was at 54 Lombard Street in the City of London.
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Barclays occupy approximately two-thirds of the building, Levels 14-21 being not presently in use. This is illustrated by photographs of the building at night. Floors 22 and 23 are currently being leased to the London 2012 Olympic commitee. Of whom Barclays intend to be one of the major sponsors. [1]
- Ground Floor: Reception
- Level -1: Gym
- Level 2: Presentation Suite & Meeting Rooms
- Level 3: Staff restaurant & deli bar
- Levels 4 & 5: Plant
- Levels 6 to 13: Working floors
- Levels 14 to 23: Tenant floors (currently not in use by Barclays)
- Levels 24 to 29: Working floors
- Level 30: Meeting rooms
- Level 31: Executive Committee offices, Boardroom and Executive Dining restaurant
It is linked by underground walkways to the Canada Square shopping mall and Canary Wharf tube station.
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Designed in the wake of 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.
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