![]() ![]() In March 2022, CK Asset sold 5 Broadgate to the National Pension Service of Korea and LaSalle Investment Management for about £1.21 billion, amid rising demand for office space in London. in June 2018 for £1 billion, using funds from its sale of The Center, a skyscraper in Hong Kong. The building was purchased by Hong Kong-based CK Asset Holdings Ltd. UBS reportedly paid almost £500 million for the building, and is committed to leasing the property until at least 2035. Ownership and tenants ĥ Broadgate was developed by the British Land Company and completed in 2015, upon which UBS moved into its offices. It is also said to have 65% lower carbon emissions than the two buildings it replaced. ![]() In addition to 7,500 square feet of green roof space, 5 Broadgate also claims to have the largest array of solar panels in the City of London on its roof. The building was built of 39% recycled materials, and 99% of construction waste was "diverted from landfill". ĥ Broadgate was designed to be environmentally friendly and has received a BREEAM Excellent rating, placing it in the "top 10% of UK new non-domestic buildings". According to The Independent, the UBS Cleaning Academy ensured that the washrooms were durable enough to withstand emotional outbursts by traders. ![]() About 5,400 people work at 5 Broadgate, 3,000 of which are UBS employees, while the remainder are support staff. As part of the agreement with the City of London, the former pedestrian path between the two buildings has been closed for security reasons, and businesses at the base of the building have been banned. ![]() The building occupies the site of two former buildings. The top four storeys are used as conventional offices. The next two storeys are used for client meetings and contain terraces and atriums. Directly above the highest trading floor is a service floor. This provides space for an underfloor plenum system, which contains pipes that provide chilled water to the workstations. The slab-to-slab distance, or the height between different storeys' floor slabs, is 5 metres (16 ft) on the trading floors. Three of the building's four utility cores are placed along the site perimeter to increase the amount of space on each trading floor. The superstructure is divided into a grid of 13.5-by-12-metre (44 by 39 ft) sections, arranged around the trading floors. Above those are four trading floors which can fit 3,000 people each, as well as seven storeys of offices above. The two lowest storeys contain a 200-seat auditorium, restaurants, a gym, and a dry cleaner. 5 Broadgate features open terraces on higher stories, and it has a large 5 carved into its exterior on the ground floor. The horizontal windows generally overlook the offices, the vertical windows are near the lift shafts, and the diagonal windows are adjacent to the exit stairs. The exterior contains horizontal, diagonal and vertical strips of windows. Only about 35% of the façade contains glazing for heat insulation. The building is 60 metres (200 ft) high at its corners, as tall as the other buildings on the Broadgate estate. Built by Seele to resemble "a giant engine block", the 34,000 square metres (370,000 sq ft) exterior is made up of 8,000 elements, including steel panels up to 9 square metres (97 sq ft) in size. Design 5 Broadgate at nightĥ Broadgate contains 700,000 square feet (65,000 m 2) of office space over 13 storeys adjacent to Liverpool Street station. The building is currently owned by the National Pension Service of Korea, which purchased the building in March 2022 together with LaSalle Investment Management. It is notable for its unique smooth steel façade with horizontal, diagonal, and vertical strips of windows, designed to look like an engine block. It serves as the British headquarters of Swiss bank UBS, the world's largest private bank, and was designed by Ken Shuttleworth of Make Architects. Office building in London 5 Broadgate in August 2016ĥ Broadgate is a groundscraper in the City of London. ![]()
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