Broadgate

Broadgate is a large, 32-acre (13 ha) office and retail estate in the Bishopsgate area of the City of London.

[1] The original developer was a joint venture of Rosehaugh and Stanhope plc:[2] it was built by a Bovis / Tarmac Construction joint venture[3] and was the largest office development in London until the arrival of Canary Wharf in the early 1990s.

The original scheme was designed by Arup Associates, Team 2, which was headed by Peter Foggo, who later left Arup to set up his own practice Peter Foggo Associates, where he completed the initial phase of works.

Statistics from British Land indicate that the estate provides 360,000 m2 (3,900,000 sq ft) of office, retail and leisure accommodation spread over 129,000 m2 (32 acres) and more than 30,000 people are employed there.

[11] The headquarters of Swiss bank UBS are situated at 5 Broadgate, a steel-clad groundscraper designed by Ken Shuttleworth of Make Architects.