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1 Cabot Square

Coordinates: 51°30′21″N 00°01′26″W / 51.50583°N 0.02389°W / 51.50583; -0.02389
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1 Cabot Square
1 Cabot Square
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General information
StatusOperational
TypeCommercial
Architectural stylePost-modern
LocationCanary Wharf
London, E14
United Kingdom
Coordinates51°30′21″N 00°01′26″W / 51.50583°N 0.02389°W / 51.50583; -0.02389
Completed1991
Height
Roof89 m (292 ft)
Technical details
Floor count21
Floor area50,166 m2 (539,980 sq ft)
Lifts/elevators36
Design and construction
Architect(s)Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
References
[1]

1 Cabot Square (also known as the Credit Suisse building) is a 21-floor office building occupied by Credit Suisse[2] in the Canary Wharf development in London, England.

History of Project

Original plans called for a skyscraper on this site for CSFB, however the slump at the end of the 1980s saw these plans scaled back.

Architect

The architect on the project was Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, and the building was completed in 1991.

Architecture

It is 89 metres tall (292 feet), with a floorspace of 50,166 square metres (164,587 square feet).

The building has large, open plates on the floor, that range in size from 64,500 square foot to 24,000 square foot in the executive offices.[3]

It is internally connected to the west, to 20 Columbus Courtyard, which is also connected to a full-height internal link to the north, 17 Columbus Courtyard.[3]

Ownership

In early 2012 it was purchased by Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund Qatar Investment Authority (QIA)[4][5]

Subsequently QIA considered selling it multiple times[2] before eventually selling to South Korea’s KB Securities.[6]

The building is leased to Credit Suisse for around 20 years and part of Canary Wharf, of which QIA bought a majority in a joint venture with Brookfield in 2015[7]

Gallery

See also

References

  1. ^ "1 Cabot Square". SkyscraperPage.
  2. ^ a b "CS Canary Wharf Office: Twists and Turns". finews.asia. 28 June 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  3. ^ a b "One Cabot Square, London | 110696 | EMPORIS". www.emporis.com. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  4. ^ "Qatar sov fund to buy Credit Suisse London HQ-sources". Reuters. 29 January 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  5. ^ "Credit Suisse's Canary Wharf HQ sold to Qatar Investment Authority". The Telegraph. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  6. ^ "£460m One Cabot sale agreed 2.5 years on". www.egi.co.uk. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  7. ^ "QIA puts £450m Cabot Square on the block". Estates Gazette.com. Retrieved 4 December 2020.

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