Completed in 1975,[2] it was 100 metres (330 ft) tall and had 25 floors[3] in three wings.

Southwark Towers was formerly the London office of Price Waterhouse before it merged with Coopers & Lybrand in 1998.

It was subsequently alleged that the transaction to develop the property might not have been entered into on an arm's length basis and that there might have been an element of bounty or kindness from PPC to Price Waterhouse, who happened to be PPC's auditors.

[5] In 1998 the building was acquired by Irvine Sellar, a property developer.

[7] The typical way to demolish a building in the United Kingdom is by implosion, but due to its close proximity to Guy's Hospital and other buildings, Southwark Towers was instead taken apart in pieces.