1 Cabot Square

1 Cabot Square (also known as the Credit Suisse building) is a 21-floor office building occupied by Credit Suisse in the Canary Wharf development in London, England. Original plans called for a skyscraper on this site for CSFB, however the slump at the end of the 1980s saw these plans scaled back.

1 Cabot Square
1 Cabot Square
General information
Status	Operational
Type	Commercial
Architectural style	Post-modern
Location	Canary Wharf London, E14 United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°30′21″N 00°01′26″W
Completed	1991
Height
Roof	89 m (292 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	21
Floor area	50,166 m2 (539,980 sq ft)
Lifts/elevators	36
Design and construction
Architect	Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
References
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The architect on the project was Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, and the building was completed in 1991. It is 89 metres tall (292 feet) with a floorspace of 50,166 square metres (164,587 square feet). The building has large, open plates on the floor that range in size from 64,500 square foot to 24,000 square foot in the executive offices.[2] It is internally connected to the west, to 20 Columbus Courtyard, which is also connected to a full-height internal link to the north, 17 Columbus Courtyard.[2]

In early 2016, the sovereign wealth fund (The Qatar Investment Authority, QIA) hired CBRE and JLL to find a buyer for 1 Cabot Square, E14, which is expected to attract bids of as much as £450m. The building is leased to Credit Suisse for around 20 years and part of Canary Wharf, of which QIA bought a majority in a joint venture with Brookfield in 2015[3]