5 Broadgate London, UBS London Office, HQ Building, Project, Image, Design

5 Broadgate Development : UBS London Office Headquarters

Broadgate Office Development, City of London, England, UK - design by make

31 Jan 2012 5 Broadgate 2012-14 Design: make The 5 Broadgate Development is due to start on site in the next few months. The proposals submitted by British Land, Blackstone and Make were for a new world class office headquarters for financial services firm UBS. The building will house up to 6,000 staff and include four trading floors to accommodate up to 750 traders per floor. This major City of London development also also includes public realm and landscaping enhancements from Sun Street Passage to Primrose Street, and for the introduction of retail space in the new Sun Street Square. images from architects 5 Broadgate is a bold response to the client's requirements and the key issues of the site. The world class office headquarters for financial services firm UBS will house up to 6,000 staff and include four state-of-the-art trading floors to accommodate up to 750 traders per floor. The scheme represents a further stage in the successful evolution of the Broadgate office estate and allows UBS to consolidate its trading operations into one building, resulting in the retention of one of the world’s leading investment banks in the heart of the City of London. The 12-storey building will be a major new ‘groundscraper’ with an extremely high quality of materials and detail. The floorplates are designed specifically for the client with the ability to be adapted in the future to suit possible change of use or tenant. The scheme will reinvigorate the public realm and improve connectivity between the key public spaces within Broadgate, as well as enhancing wider City integration. images from architects The bold building form has been conceived as a perfectly cast metal object - an engine block with surfaces and details which are beautifully machined to graphically accentuate solids and voids, light and shadow. The facade expresses the building’s functions and mediates between the internal and external environment; the cladding plays an integral part in the energy efficiency of the building, with the solid facade mitigating the effects of solar gain and exceeding high sustainability targets. 5 Broadgate London - Building Information Project: Broadgate Client: British Land Area: 3.2 acres Appointed: Oct 2009 Planning submitted: Dec 2010 Planning approved: Apr 2011 Award: World Architecture Festival: Future Projects Award: Commercial make 26 Jul 2011 Broadgate Redevelopment UK Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has granted Broadgate a certficate of immunity from listing. Therefore it allows the proposed 700,000 sqft development by make architects to proceed more easily. photograph © Adrian Welch Previously the London Evening Standard reported the possibility of listing five large offices surrounding the ice rink threatened proposals by British Land to build a £750 million HQ for UBS on the 16-block office complex adjacent Liverpool Street Station. Retention of two of the offices would have halted the British Land development. Sir Stuart calls the UBS "engine block" - designed by architect of the moment Ken Shuttleworth - "the worst large building we have seen in the City for 20 years,". British Land and US fund Blackstone, who each own 50% of the 4.4 million square foot estate. They asked for immunity from listing for numbers 4 and 6 Broadgate Circle as a precaution against English Heritage springing a surprise listing before work starts in 2012. The granting of this Certificate of Immunity should have been a matter of routine. photograph © Adrian Welch In fact English Heritage, after consulting with preservation groups such as the 20th Century Society and a number of eminent architects, decided to widen the scope of the inquiry dramatically. English Heritage confirms it is "considering the Broadgate square development as a whole". In other words, the rink as well as numbers 1, 2 and 8 Broadgate. British Land made an application for a certificate of immunity from listing in autumn 2010 as a normal part of the process with a major application. If EH do list the Broadgate development the final decision rests with UK Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt. Broadgate redevelopment design : make architects

Broadgate Development

Broadgate Centre, City of London
1984-91
Arup Associates with Skidmore Owings & Merrill

photograph © Adrian Welch
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SOM Architects

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