Template:Short description Template:Good article Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox building 40 Bank Street is a skyscraper in Heron Quays which overlooks the London Docklands.<ref name="Wright">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Meesons" /> It is Template:Convert tall, having 30 stories and a total floor area of Template:Convert.<ref name="Emporis" /><ref name="Norman">Template:Cite news</ref> The building was designed by Cesar Pelli & Associates,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and was built by Canary Wharf Contractors in 2003.<ref name="CMG">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Jones">Template:Cite news</ref> The executive architect was Adamson Associates.<ref name="Jones" /><ref name="Crosbie" /> As of 2025, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat lists 40 Bank Street as the 38th tallest building in London and the 43rd tallest building in the United Kingdom.<ref name="Council">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
ConstructionEdit
During a wave of development in the early 2000s, 40 Bank Street was among the first six skyscrapers to be built on Canary Wharf after One Canada Square (along with 8 Canada Square, 25 Canada Square, One Churchill Place, 25 Bank Street, and 10 Upper Bank Street).<ref name="Barras">Template:Cite book</ref> Construction on 40 Bank Street began in 2000 and was completed in 2003.<ref name="Council" /><ref name="Wright" /> The executive architect was Adamson Associates.<ref name="Jones" /><ref name="Crosbie" /> The curtain walls were manufactured by Permasteelisa.<ref name="Crosbie" /> Canary Wharf Group renovated the lobby from 2020 to 2023, which included security upgrades.<ref name="Meesons">Template:Cite news</ref>
DesignEdit
40 Bank Street is the most slender of the three towers speculatively built by Canary Wharf Group on Heron Quays (the others being 25 Bank Street and One Churchill Place).<ref name="Wright" /> Whereas 25 Bank Street was designed in the International Style, 40 Bank Street is a modernist structure.<ref name="Jones" /><ref name="Emporis" /> The building has uniformly spaced windows bounded by a light-coloured stone facade—recalling the 1980s-style buildings in the area—except for a glass section which runs along the side and onto the top of the structure.<ref name="Jones" /><ref name="Crosbie" /> The solid facade meets the glass curtain walls in such a way as to give the impression that two different buildings have been fused together, an effect that Pelli also employed at the World Financial Center in New York City.<ref name="Wright" /> The windows are slightly recessed from the facade, giving the illusion, in certain lightning, that the windows are hollow openings.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> The proportion between the window openings along the curtain wall was chosen in order to emphasise the height of the building.<ref name="Crosbie">Template:Cite book</ref>
The building is Template:Convert tall, having 30 stories and a total floor area of Template:Convert.<ref name="Emporis" /><ref name="Norman" /> As of 2025, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat lists 40 Bank Street as the 38th tallest building in London and the 43rd tallest building in the United Kingdom.<ref name="Council" /> Immediately to the west of 40 Bank Street is 25 Bank Street, a skyscraper of the same height, while to the east is a shorter building, 50 Bank Street, which has the same architectural style of 40 Bank Street. 25, 40, and 50 Bank Street were all designed by Pelli and are connected by glass winter gardens.<ref name="Jones" /> 40 Bank Street connects to Jubilee Place, an underground shopping mall.<ref name="Wright" />
OccupantsEdit
The original tenants at 40 Bank Street were Allen & Overy and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.<ref name="Jones" /><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Skadden, after consultation with JLL, left 40 Bank Street in 2021 and relocated to 22 Bishopsgate.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Malpas">Template:Cite news</ref> Allen & Overy experimented with new workspace concepts in 40 Bank Street prior to expanding to Bishops Square.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Allen & Overy sublet two floors of the building in 2013, at Template:Convert.<ref name="Bourke">Template:Cite news</ref>
In 2022, Canary Wharf Group began offering fully-fitted office space at 40 Bank Street, with Citibank being its first customer.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Norman" /> In 2023, HVIVO, a research group specialising in human trials signed a ten-year lease for Template:Convert of office space at 40 Bank Street.<ref name="Norman" /><ref name="Barrie">Template:Cite news</ref>
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