40 Bank Street
40 Bank Street in 2005, viewed from the South
General information
Type	Office
Architectural style	Modernism[1]
Location	London,E14
Construction started	2000
Completed	2003
Height
Roof	153 metres (502 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	30
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Cesar Pelli & Associates,Adamson Associates Architect (asexecutive architect)
Developer	Canary Wharf Group

40 Bank Street is askyscraper inHeron Quays which overlooks theLondon Docklands.^[2][3] It is 153 metres (502 ft) tall, having 30 stories and a total floor area of 634,000-square-feet.^[4][5] The building was designed byCesar Pelli & Associates,^[6] and was built byCanary Wharf Contractors in 2003.^[4][7] Theexecutive architect wasAdamson Associates.^[7][8] As of 2023, theCouncil on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat lists 40 Bank Street as the 31sttallest building in London and the 35thtallest building in the United Kingdom.^[9]

During a wave of development in the early 2000s, 40 Bank Street became one of the first six skyscrapers to be built on Canary Wharf afterOne Canada Square (along with8 Canada Square,25 Canada Square,One Churchill Place,25 Bank Street, and10 Upper Bank Street).^[10] Immediately to the west of 40 Bank Street is 25 Bank Street, a skyscraper of the same height, while to the east is a shorter building,50 Bank Street, which matches the style of 40 Bank Street.^[7] These latter three buildings were all designed by Pelli and are connected by glasswinter gardens.^[7] 40 Bank Street connects toJubilee Place, an underground shopping mall.^[2]

40 Bank Street is the most slender of the three towersspeculatively built by Canary Wharf Group on Heron Quays (the others being 25 Bank Street and One Churchill Place).^[2] Whereas 25 Bank Street was designed in theInternational Style, 40 Bank Street is amodernist structure.^[7][1] The building has uniformly spaced windows bounded by a light-coloured stone facade—recalling the 1980s-style buildings in the area—except for a glass section which runs along the side and onto the top of the structure.^[7][8] The solid facade meets the glasscurtain walls in such a way as to give the impression that two different buildings have been fused together, an effect that Pelli also employed at theWorld Financial Center inNew York City.^[2] The windows are slightly recessed from the facade, giving the illusion, in certain lightning, that the windows are hollow openings.^[11] The proportion between the window openings along the curtain wall was chosen in order to emphasise the height of the building.^[8]

Construction on 40 Bank Street began in 2000 and was completed in 2003.^[9][2] The curtain walls were manufactured byPermasteelisa.^[8] In 2023, Canary Wharf Group completed renovations of the lobby, including security updates.^[3]

The original tenants at 40 Bank Street wereAllen & Overy andSkadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.^[7][12] Skadden, after consultation withJLL, left 40 Bank Street in 2021 and relocated to22 Bishopsgate.^[13][14] Allen & Overy tested workspace concepts in 40 Bank Street prior their expansion toBishops Square.^[15] Allen & Overy sublet two floors of the building in 2013, at £35 per sq ft.^[16]

In 2022, Canary Wharf Group began offering fully-fitted office space at 40 Bank Street, withCitibank being its first customer.^{[17][18][19][5]} In 2023,HVIVO, a research group specialising inhuman trials signed a ten-year lease for 39,000 square feet of office space at 40 Bank Street.^[5][20]

• 40 Bank Street^[usurped] atEmporis
• 40 Bank Street atCouncil on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

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• Skyscrapers in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
• Office buildings completed in 2003
• Canary Wharf buildings
• César Pelli buildings

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