BT Riverside Tower

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{{infobox building

|name= BT Riverside Tower

|image = BT Riverside Tower, Belfast, April 2010 (02).JPG

| building_type = Office

|location = Belfast, Northern Ireland

| height = 61.88 meters {{cite web |url=http://www.emporis.com/application/?nav=building&id=btriversidetower-belfast-unitedkingdom&lng=3|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130220041444/http://www.emporis.com/application/?nav=building&id=btriversidetower-belfast-unitedkingdom&lng=3|url-status=usurped|archive-date=20 February 2013|title=BT Riverside Tower|publisher = Emporis.com |date= 17 June 2010 |access-date=January 17, 2010}}

| floor_count = 13

| main_contractor = Gilbert Ash

| architecture_firm = WDR & RT Taggart

| completion_date = 1998

}}

BT Riverside Tower was built in 1998, as a headquarters of British Telecom for Northern Ireland. The Tower is located at Lanyon Place in Belfast City Centre.{{cite web|url=http://www.locallink.ie/view.php?i=5070706 |title=BT Riverside Tower Location |publisher=Locallink.ie |date=17 June 2010 |access-date=January 17, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721125239/http://www.locallink.ie/view.php?i=5070706 |archive-date=July 21, 2011 }} It was officially opened by the Duke of Edinburgh on 11 November 1998.{{Cite news |last=McGahan |first=Claire |date=12 November 1998 |title=Duke opens door to the riverside towers |work=Belfast Telegraph}} The building is currently the 7th tallest building in Belfast. It is located in Lanyon Place, which was one of the Laganside Corporation's redevelopment projects.{{Cite news |last=McGill |first=Adrienne |date=7 July 1998 |title=Laganside Leaps Into a New Era |work=News Letter}}

BT staff moved in to the building in late 1999 and early 2000, having previously been based at five different city centre locations.{{Cite news |last=Morton |first=Robin |date=11 November 1998 |title=Duke opens 'twin peaks' |work=Belfast Telegraph}} BT staff occupied all 11 floors until 2008; some floor space is now occupied by other tenants, including AXA insurance and the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority. The building was used for filming scenes of the BBC drama Line of Duty.{{Cite news |last=Brown |first=Daniel |date=8 April 2021 |title=Line of Duty film locations mapped: OCG haunts and Ted Hastings' Belfast hunting grounds charted |work=Belfast Telegraph}}