Canary Wharf Tower

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  • Address
    1 Canada Sq, Docklands
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  • Transport
    underground rail: Canary Wharf

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Lonely Planet review

Cesar Pelli's 244m-high Canary Wharf Tower, built in 1991, described as a 'square prism with a pyramidal top', presides over a toy-town, financial theme park, surrounded by more recent towers housing HSBC and Citigroup, and offices for Bank of America, Barclays, Lehmann Brothers, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse and more. It took a long time for the place to come this far, even.

Canary Wharf Tower, still the tallest building in the UK and one of the largest property developments in Europe, had to be saved from bankruptcy twice before it reached today's levels of occupancy.

There's no public access to the tower, but on a sunny day you can head for the open-air cafés and bars of West India Quay. You can get here on the DLR but the grandeur of Sir Norman Foster's sleek Canary Wharf Underground station (Jubilee line) is a better introduction to this dynamic district.