40 Bank Street

During a wave of development in the early 2000s, 40 Bank Street was among the first six skyscrapers to be built on Canary Wharf after One Canada Square (along with 8 Canada Square, 25 Canada Square, One Churchill Place, 25 Bank Street, and 10 Upper Bank Street).{{cite book |last1=Barras |first1=Richard |title=Monumental London: From Roman Colony to Global City |series=Palgrave Studies in Economic History |date=2023 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-3-031-38402-8 |pages=382–383 |doi=10.1007/978-3-031-38403-5 |s2cid=264494089 |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-38403-5}} Construction on 40 Bank Street began in 2000 and was completed in 2003. The executive architect was Adamson Associates. The curtain walls were manufactured by Permasteelisa. Canary Wharf Group renovated the lobby from 2020 to 2023, which included security upgrades.{{cite news |title=Canary Wharf tower gets bespoke security upgrade |url=https://www.ribaj.com/products/meesons-secure-entrance-at-forty-bank-street-canary-wharf |access-date=18 December 2023 |work=RIBA Journal |date=5 January 2023}}

40 Bank Street is the most slender of the three towers speculatively built by Canary Wharf Group on Heron Quays (the others being 25 Bank Street and One Churchill Place). Whereas 25 Bank Street was designed in the International Style, 40 Bank Street is a modernist structure. 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. The solid facade meets the glass curtain 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 the World Financial Center in New York City. The windows are slightly recessed from the facade, giving the illusion, in certain lightning, that the windows are hollow openings.{{cite journal |author1=Agnieszka Zimnicka |author2=Ewa Balanicka |author3=Aleksandra Kroll |title=Evolution in Approach to Colour in Tall Buildings' Architecture on the Isle of Dogs, London, UK |journal=Arts |date=2021 |volume=11 |issue=9 |page=6 |doi=10.3390/arts11010009 |doi-access=free }} The proportion between the window openings along the curtain wall was chosen in order to emphasise the height of the building.{{cite book |last1=Crosbie |first1=Michael J. |title=Curtain Walls: Recent Developments by Cesar Pelli & Associates |date=2005 |publisher=Birkhäuser |location=Basel |isbn=9783764376543 |pages=166–171 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/_/A_7Z-mHoNnUC}}

The building is {{convert|502|ft|m|0}} tall, having 30 stories and a total floor area of {{convert|634,000|sqft|m2}}. As of 2025, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat lists 40 Bank Street as the 38th tallest building in London and the 43rd tallest building in the United Kingdom. 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 has the same architectural style of 40 Bank Street. 25, 40, and 50 Bank Street were all designed by Pelli and are connected by glass winter gardens. 40 Bank Street connects to Jubilee Place, an underground shopping mall.

The original tenants at 40 Bank Street were Allen & Overy and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.{{cite book |last1=Hamnett |first1=Chris |title=Unequal City: London in the Global Arena |date=2004 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=1134371381 |page=56 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Unequal_City/9AB_AgAAQBAJ}} Skadden, after consultation with JLL, left 40 Bank Street in 2021 and relocated to 22 Bishopsgate.{{cite news |last1=Dransfield |first1=Louise |title=Skadden hires JLL to weigh London office move |url=https://www.egi.co.uk/news/skadden-hires-jll-to-weigh-london-office-move/ |access-date=18 December 2023 |work=EG Radius |date=14 January 2020}}{{cite news |last1=Malpas |first1=John |title=Skadden to move back to the City of London after 25 years at Canary Wharf |url=https://www.globallegalpost.com/news/skadden-to-move-back-to-the-city-of-london-after-25-years-at-canary-wharf-451310290 |access-date=18 December 2023 |work=The Global Legal Post}} Allen & Overy experimented with new workspace concepts in 40 Bank Street prior to expanding to Bishops Square.{{cite book |editor1-last=Clements-Croome |editor1-first=Derek |title=Creating the Productive Workplace |date=2006 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=0415351375 |edition=2 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/_/5YncmAEACAAJ}} Allen & Overy sublet two floors of the building in 2013, at {{convert|35|£/sqft|£/m2}}.{{cite news |last1=Bourke |first1=Joanna |title=Two sign at 40 Bank Street, E14 |url=https://www.egi.co.uk/news/two-sign-at-40-bank-street-e14/ |access-date=18 December 2023 |work=EG Radius|date=20 September 2013}}

In 2022, Canary Wharf Group began offering fully-fitted office space at 40 Bank Street, with Citibank being its first customer.{{cite news |last1=Tansley |first1=Ella |title=Canary Wharf Expands Portfolio with Flexible Office Space |url=https://www.twinfm.com/article/canary-wharf-group-expands-portfolio-with-flexible-office-service |access-date=18 December 2023 |work=TWinFM |date=22 February 2022 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Bean |first1=Sara |title=Canary Wharf Group launches a new managed office space, with Citi as first customer |url=https://www.fmj.co.uk/canary-wharf-group-launches-a-new-managed-office-space-with-citi-as-first-customer/ |access-date=18 December 2023 |work=Facilities Management Journal |date=21 February 2022}}{{cite news |last1=Hammond |first1=George |title=Canary Wharf launches flexible office service as work patterns shift |url=https://www.ft.com/content/4c9c992b-8b89-4879-8d65-21c4665ea02d |access-date=18 December 2023 |work=Financial Times |date=19 February 2022}} In 2023, HVIVO, a research group specialising in human trials signed a ten-year lease for {{convert|39,049|sqft|m2}} of office space at 40 Bank Street.{{cite news |last1=Barrie |first1=Robert |title=Inside Canary Wharf's infectious disease testing facility |url=https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/news/inside-canary-wharfs-infectious-disease-testing-facility/?cf-view |access-date=16 March 2025 |work=Pharmaceutical Technology |date=18 July 2024}}

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• [https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/40-bank-street/3796 40 Bank Street] at Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

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