30 Cannon Street
51°30′45″N 0°05′41″W / 51.51246°N 0.09478°W
30 Cannon Street is a modern office building on
The location was formerly the site of the city church of St Mildred, Bread Street, designed by Christopher Wren after the medieval church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London; the Wren church was bombed and destroyed in the Second World War. The site was one of the last bomb sites in London to be redeveloped.
The building has six storeys with a raised basement. Its height was limited due to its proximity to
The façades are characterised by tiers of repeating arched white frames around recessed windows of bronze-tinted glass, with each tier separated by a black granite string course which incorporates hidden drainage. The cladding units are pre-cast double-skinned 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) wide modules of
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View in 2007 from south-east
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Details of windows and entrance in 2007
References
- ^ "Credit Lyonnais - The International Glassfibre Reinforced Concrete Association (GRCA) for all your GRC / GFRC information". grca.org.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
- English Heritage Announces Listing of Post-War Office Buildings, English Heritage, 28 January 2015
- Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1422718)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
- manchesterhistory.net
- 30 Cannon Street Archived 4 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Mimoa
- 100 Buildings 100 Years – 1977: 30 Cannon Street, London, Twentieth Century Society