The Shard becomes the tallest building in the UK.New London office building The Shard is officially the tallest building in the UK.
The Shard London Bridge has now surpassed One Canada Square in height and become the UK’s tallest building. (more…)
A stake holder in the UK’s tallest building has plans to construct an even bigger project in the City of London.
Brookfield Asset Management Inc, based in Toronto Canada, have announced that they are searching for a site to rival the planned 64-storey Pinnacle project. The Pinnacle is the only major office space skyscraper planned for completion after 2012 in the capital’s City district. (more…)
Royal Dutch Shell have announced plans to move to Canary Wharf for the next ten years, whilst the Shell Centre headquarters in Waterloo are redeveloped.
The oil firm are currently negotiating a ten-year lease on 200,000 sq ft of office space in 40 Bank Street, which is close to One Canada Square, so that they will continue to have a working headquarters in London during the redevelopment. (more…)
The Canary Wharf Group have bought the long leasehold interests at One Park Place near Westferry Circus for £17.5 million, marking one of the largest acquisitions in Central London so far this year.
The group have been interested in the office space for years but finally acquired it from Park Place SARL this week. The commercial property previously belonged to Bernard McNamara who bought the site in 2007 for £55 million. Last week McNamara told the Irish media he was in debts of £1.3 billion after he was successfully sued following a fallout from a property deal. (more…)