25 Churchill Place | Canary Wharf | 130m | 23 fl | T/O

[Medenine]

Name: 25 Churchill Place
Developer: Canary Wharf
Architect: KPF
Height: 130m AOD, 124m AGL
Floors: 23m




Something that needs doing!

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[B890bT]

another boxy building for CW nice design though and at 130m should be fairly recognisable

[guyb121]

Cool, any idea when the building will start to rise???

[Sitback]

Finally something in Canary Wharf to focus on. The City has been getting all the attention.

[delores]

I just wish canary wharf would 'try' something a bit different for a change, some solidity in their buildings would be welcome.

[eddyk]

It's a box but that's fine, something is happening in Canary Wharf.

It all ads to the density.

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[Goat Rope]

Originally Posted by eddyk

It's a box but that's fine, something is happening in Canary Wharf.

It all ads to the density.

image hosted on flickr

My fear re this is that despite being 130m tall (massive by our standards), it is hardly going to look anything like that hight. Firstly, it comprises only a piss-poor 23 floors in total and secondly, judging by the render, it's going to be one fat bastard.

I know we're talking about CW, but really, could they not have come up with something a bit better?

Who cares about denisty, when it's made up of crap.

[Skyscrapercarazeeee]

It doesn't look 130 metres,more like 70 metres.Deceptive,but quite like the design,a slight departure from simple box

[rickster2k]

It's funny how a few years ago CW was the talk of the town in terms of towers going up, now it's like a provincial backwater compared to the City.

[MatthewGen]

Originally Posted by rickster2k

It's funny how a few years ago CW was the talk of the town in terms of towers going up, now it's like a provincial backwater compared to the City.

Well there's only two towers rising in the city I thought?

[R.K.Teck]

It's easy to think, oh it's only 130m, but it would make a huge impact on any other UK city's skyline, and at 130m it will become the 10th tallest skyscraper in Canary Wharf, so it's not exactly inconspicuous.

[joshwebb]

Originally Posted by Skyscrapercarazeeee

It doesn't look 130 metres,more like 70 metres.Deceptive,but quite like the design,a slight departure from simple box

it dont even look 60m lol what a strange rendor

[Attitudelad]

I just hope they're bad renders and in actuality the building will appear sleeker. Regardless, this is great news.

[Sprogbot]

Originally Posted by Skyscrapercarazeeee

It doesn't look 130 metres...

It doesn't look 130 metres because it's not. According to post #1 it's only 124 metres "Above Ground Level"
It would only look 130 metres if you happened to be viewing it from a boat sailing down the Thames!

[B890bT]

124 metres is still pretty big, if wikipedia is anything to go by it will be the 24th tallest building in London, the renders still look nothing like that tall

[JD47]

I like the building.
That is one thing I love about the modern building.
They are covered in glass. Canary Wharf really is a nice
site and aything new is a bonus to it.

[Sprogbot]

I like it too, infact I like all the square glass towers on Canary Wharf, 8 Canada Square (HSBC) being the best.

[B890bT]

I'm not saying that it is a bad design, KPF bring out some excellent designs (heron tower for example) it fits well into the CW cluster but it would be great to see something a little different built there such as the Cuba St development

[n_pon88]

he European Medicines Agency prelet 250,000 sq ft of the building last August for its new headquarters.

The company said that two cranes had been erected and the slip formed concrete core will soon start to appear.

The Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates-designed 20-storey 500,000 sq ft is being constructed by concrete contractor Byrne Bros and Kone, which will install the elevators. The cladding will be supplied and installed by Seele. The contract terms were not disclosed.

Construction of the shell, core and fit out is being undertaken by Canary Wharf Contractors, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canary Wharf Group.

The building is set for completion in late 2014. It sits adjacent to Wood Wharf, a 4.6m sq. ft. mixed-use future development site, of which Canary Wharf Group purchased control from its former joint venture partners last month for a combined £90m.

The balance of the space at 25 Churchill Place will be marketed by Canary Wharf Group as construction progresses and the supply of grade A office space in central London continues to tighten.

In December last year Canary Wharf Group secured a £190m development and investment loan facility for the development of 25 Churchill Place.

The facility was secured from a syndicate of banks comprising Barclays Bank PLC, Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG, Lloyds TSB and The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC; with Barclays also acting as coordinator, agent and security trustee.

John Pagano, managing director of development at Canary Wharf Group, said: “25 Churchill Place will provide a major boost to the local economy, in terms of jobs and contracts and retaining yet another world-class organisation in central London.”

EMA will occupy the promenade, ground and first nine office floors of the building at an agreed rent of £46.50 per sq ft commencing on 1 January 2015 with five-yearly upwards-only rent reviews.

The length of the lease is 25 years with no breaks and EMA has options to take an additional four floors of around 27,500 sq ft each.

http://costar.co.uk/en/assets/news/2...urchill-Place/

[thedurringtondoctor]

Originally Posted by kaiter2

I agree with you.

I think Canary Wharf is functional and practical but a little boring. But are the architects straining for something wild and whacky or are they building something that the client wants? Maybe a bit of both? How many clients go to an architect and say build me something weird and wonderful and how many say I want a 40 story block with big windows and big floorplates?

I know I will get trolled for this