Fire Station #4

Built: 1967

Design Architect: Robert Venturi .

(Venturi and Rauch).

Philadelphia, Pennyslvania.

Assistant Design Architect: John Rauch

(Venturi and Rauch) .

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Project Manager: Gerod Clark.

(Venturi and Rauch).

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Canary Wharf

is a major business district located in

London, United Kingdom. It is one of

London's two main financial centres –

alongside the traditional City of London –

and contains many of the UK's tallest

buildings, including the second-tallest

(and tallest completed), One Canada

Square..

Canary Wharf Canary Wharf contains around 14,000,000 square

feet (1,300,000 m2) of office and retail space, of

which around 7,900,000 square feet (730,000 m2) is

owned by Canary Wharf Group.[3] Around 90,000

people work in Canary Wharf[4] and it is home to

the world or European headquarters of numerous

major banks, professional services firms and

media organisations including Barclays, Citigroup,

Clifford Chance, Credit Suisse, HSBC, KPMG,

MetLife, Skadden, State Street and Thomson

Reuters.[5]

Architect Norman Foster

Location Hong Kong, China map

Date 1979 to 1986 timeline

Building Type skyscraper commercial office tower, bank

headquarters

Construction System steel frame and glass

Climate tropical

Context urban

Style High-Tech Modern

Notes Dramatic exoskeleton trusses, interior

atrium, escalator entry through glazed

atrium floor.