One Rathbone Square
| One Rathbone Square | |
|---|---|
Facebook London (former) | |
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  Location within Greater London | |
| Former names | 35-50 Rathbone Place |
General information | |
| Type | Company headquarters |
| Location | 1 Rathbone Square, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 1FB |
| Coordinates | 51°31′01″N 0°08′03″W / 51.517°N 0.1343°W |
| Elevation | 25 m (82 ft) |
| Current tenants | Facebook London |
Construction started | July 2014 |
| Completed | March 2017 |
| Inaugurated | 4 December 2017 |
| Client | Facebook UK Ltd |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 7 |
| Floor area | 242,800 square feet (22,560 m2) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Graham Longman |
Architecture firm | Make Architects, Frank Gehry[1] |
Structural engineer | AKT II |
Services engineer | Hilson Moran |
One Rathbone Square is a commercial building in London, and was the UK headquarters of Facebook.
History
[edit]Rathbone Square is a 2.3 acres (0.93 ha) development in central London. The site was bought from Royal Mail Group for £120m in September 2011; it was the former West End Delivery Office.
Design
[edit]Planning consent was granted from Westminster City Council in February 2014. The main architect for the site was Graham Longman; Make Architects were given the project in October 2011.
Construction
[edit]Construction began in July 2014, with demolition of the former seven-storey site. Main construction began in 2015.
Structure
[edit]It is situated off Oxford Street, in the east of the City of Westminster, and is on the boundary with the London Borough of Camden. It is about 500m south-east of the BT Tower, which can be seen along the neighbouring Rathbone Place. The site costs Facebook £17.8m per year to rent, with a fifteen-year term on the contract.[2]
It features a build called LDN_LAB, a business incubator for tech startup companies.
See also
[edit]- Principal Place, Amazon UK headquarters in Shoreditch on Bishopsgate (A10)
- Banksy, One_Nation_Under_CCTV
