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Fire Station #4 Built: 1967 Design Architect: Robert Venturi . (Venturi and Rauch). Philadelphia, Pennyslvania. Assistant Design Architect: John Rauch (Venturi and Rauch) . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Project Manager: Gerod Clark. (Venturi and Rauch). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.



Canary Wharf is a major business district located in London, United Kingdom. It is one of London's two main financial centres – alongside the traditional City of London – and contains many of the UK's tallest buildings, including the second-tallest (and tallest completed), One Canada Square..


Canary Wharf Canary Wharf contains around 14,000,000 square feet (1,300,000 m2) of office and retail space, of which around 7,900,000 square feet (730,000 m2) is owned by Canary Wharf Group.[3] Around 90,000 people work in Canary Wharf[4] and it is home to the world or European headquarters of numerous major banks, professional services firms and media organisations including Barclays, Citigroup, Clifford Chance, Credit Suisse, HSBC, KPMG, MetLife, Skadden, State Street and Thomson Reuters.[5]




Architect

Norman Foster

Location

Hong Kong, China map

Date Building Type

1979 to 1986 timeline skyscraper commercial office tower, bank headquarters

Construction System steel frame and glass Climate

tropical

Context

urban

Style

High-Tech Modern

Notes

Dramatic exoskeleton trusses, interior atrium, escalator entry through glazed atrium floor.


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