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One Churchill Place
One Churchill Place is a 156 m tall skyscraper with 32 floors, currently serving as the headquarters of Barclays Bank. It is in the Docklands area of London in Canary Wharf. 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 Group Headquarters and the Citigroup Centre.
The building was formally opened in June 2005 by the Chairman of Barclays, Matthew Barrett, and merged many different Barclays offices across London into one building. The former corporate HQ was at 54 Lombard Street in the City of London.
The building was designed by HOK International[1] and constructed by Canary Wharf Contractors.[2]
Barclays occupy approximately two-thirds of the building, Levels 17-23 being not presently in use by Barclays. Floors 18-23 are currently being leased to the London 2012 Olympic organisation and to BGC Partners. Level 17 remains vacant. Increasingly the premises are now used on a hotdesking basis to accommodate more mobile working.
It is linked by underground walkways to the Canada Square shopping mall and Canary Wharf tube station.
Designed after 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.
The building is unofficially referred to as "The Bungalow" by employees of HSBC at the neighbouring 8 Canada Square.
The building is said to be cursed after the collapse of Enron, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. All three companies were in, or due to be in, neighbouring buildings around 1 Churchill Place.
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