Name: Abdullah Abdulaziz AL-Ghamdi ID# 0909448
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CANARY WHARF TOWER
Canary Wharf is a large commercial development that challenges London's traditional financial centre, The Square Mile. Canary Wharf contains the UK's three tallest buildings: One Canada Square (a.k.a. the Canary Wharf Tower) at 235.1 m; and the HSBC Tower and the Citigroup Centre joint second tallest at 199.5 m. Canary Wharf is built on the site of the old West India Docks. From 1802 to 1980, the area was one of the busiest docks in the world, which at one point employed 50,000 people. Canary Wharf itself takes its name from the sea trade with the Canary Islands, whose name comes from the dogs which the Spaniards found there.
LOCATION: Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets INVESTORS: The London Docklands Development Corporation, Reichmann brothers of Olympia and York PROGRAM: 4.1 million square feet of office and retail space ATTRACTIONS: Twenty four buildings, five retail malls, a department store and two sports and health clubs, Canary Wharf tube station and two Docklands Light Railway stations, two conference and banqueting centers, five public car parks and 20 acres of landscaped open spaces
DESIGN FIRMS: Cesar Pelli, Foster & Partners, Gensler & Associates, HOK International (UK), Kohn Pedersen Fox, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Inc, Terry Farrell & Partners, Troughton McAslan
2- Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Headquarters Architects : Norman Foster norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, OM Kt. (born 1 June 1935) is a British architect whose company maintains an international design practice, Foster + Partners. Foster was raised in Manchester in a working-class family and was intrigued by design and engineering from a young age. His years observing Mancunian architecture subsequently influenced his works, and was inspired to pursue a career in architecture after a treasurer clerk noticed his sketches and interest in Manchester's buildings while he worked at Manchester Town Hall.
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited is a prominent bank established and based in Hong Kong since 1865 when Hong Kong was a colony of the British Empire. It is the founding member of the HSBC Group and since 1990 is now a wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc. The company's business ranges from the traditional High Street roles of personal finance and commercial banking, to corporate and investment banking, private banking and global banking. It is the largest bank in Hong Kong with branches and offices throughout the Asia Pacific region including other countries around the world.
Massive exoskeleton graphically illustrating the forces and the weight of the building
3- robert venturi fire station Fire Station Number 4 Commentary The building committee for Fire Station No. 4 requested an ordinary “ building that was easy to maintain. The plan is simple: almost equal space is given to the apparatus room on the right and storage-living quarters on the left with a hose-drying tower in the center of the front. Because the dormitory is lower than the apparatus room, a parapet is applied to the facade on its side in order to simplify the .front and enhance the scale The facade is predominantly white-glazed brick that interlocks in a “ pattern with the plain red brick of the sides where they are allowed to wrap around the corner. The white brick, the gold lettering at the top of the tower identifying Fire Station No. 4, the tower itself, and the big flagpole in the middle of the front lawn convey the civic .importance of the building