Top seven highest office space towers in Canary Wharf

Top seven highest office space towers in Canary Wharf

Canary Wharf workers benefit from their well placed office space every day. They are close to restaurants, shopping centres and pleasant cosmopolitan plazas but how often do employees stop and stare at the building they inhabit?

Three of the UKs tallest buildings can be found in Canary Wharf, which is a little known fact. We have cobbled together a list of the top seven biggest buildings in the area for your perusal so you can become the resident office expert on mighty edifices in the East of London.

One Canada Square is the tallest building in Canary Wharf since 1991. The glass fronted building boasts 50 floors and measures up at an impressive 771 feet.

Close by, the HSBC Headquarters at 8 Canada Square, is the 22nd tallest building in Europe and was designed by Norman Foster architects. It is made up of 4,900 glass panels and was officially opened in April 2003.

The CitiGroup centre building is at number three in the countdown and was created after two Canada Square buildings merged together.

One Churchill Place is the seventh tallest building in the UK and stands at 32 floors.

The 33-storey 40 Bank Street skyscraper is 153 metres high and is based in the Heron Quays area.

The multi tenanted 25 Bank Street site was built in 2003 and the top floor lights up in green at night.

Clifford Chance occupies the fifth tallest building in Canary Wharf, which stands at 151 metres tall.

Next time you are invited to the local pub quiz by your office colleagues and an architectural question arises, you can astound them all with your specialist knowledge of Canary Wharf office space. They will no doubt be in awe of your statistical prowess and declare you their pub quiz secret weapon.

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