Broadgate

This big white house was the prime real estate in Broadgate Park: huge rooms throughout, no sharing, but only trusted to mature females.

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The decision by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport was unexpected: English Heritage, which oversees buildings of historical and architectural interest, had advised the U.K. government that the Broadgate office complex in the City should be protected.

UBS London HQ Clears Hurdle Sonya Flechon 2011

"Broadgate Square may not be everyone's idea of heritage, but every decade has its architectural high points, and the 1980s are no different," it said.

UBS London HQ Clears Hurdle Sonya Flechon 2011

Broadgate opened only in 1985, but English Heritage said it was the architectural embodiment of Margaret Thatcher's time as prime minister, when a period of state contraction and business expansion saw the finance industry assume a leading place in the U.K.'s economic life.

UBS London HQ Clears Hurdle Sonya Flechon 2011

But English Heritage argued that Broadgate Square, by Liverpool Street Station, should be protected as it was one of the most important and successful developments of its period and type, and set the standard for many of the buildings that followed.

UBS London HQ Clears Hurdle Sonya Flechon 2011

For UBS, which is already located at Broadgate Estate, the new building represents the possibility to bring together under one roof all its operations and staff, currently spread out in several buildings in the area.

UBS London HQ Clears Hurdle Sonya Flechon 2011

Broadgate opened only in 1985, but English Heritage said it was the architectural embodiment of Margaret Thatcher's time as prime minister, when a period of state contraction and business expansion saw the finance industry assume a leading place in the U.K.'s economic life.

UBS London HQ Clears Hurdle Sonya Flechon 2011

British Land Chief Executive Chris Grigg said the move "allows Broadgate to continue to evolve as a sustainable and flexible office location that will meet the future needs of occupiers whilst maintaining the sense of space and place for which it is rightly renowned around the globe."

UBS London HQ Clears Hurdle Sonya Flechon 2011

Bluebutton Properties, a joint venture between British Land and Blackstone, plans to demolish two existing buildings at 4 and 6 Broadgate to make space.

UBS London HQ Clears Hurdle Sonya Flechon 2011

British Land and Blackstone plan to invest £850 million to replace the current building at 5 Broadgate with a 700,000-square-feet building, the biggest yet in the City, London's traditional financial district.

UBS London HQ Clears Hurdle Sonya Flechon 2011