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The tower was designed by Sir Norman Foster's team of architects. Construction began in 1997 and was completed in 2002. There are 39 office floors in the 200 metre high tower, the second largest in the United Kingdom. Standing alongside the HSBC Tower are 1 Canada Square (known popularly as Canary Wharf); and the Citigroup Centre, which forms the British head office of the multinational US bank, Citigroup. The tower is not open to the public.

The nearest tube station is Canary Wharf, serving the Jubilee Line and Docklands Light RailwayThe Docklands Light Railway DLR is a light rail public transport system for the redeveloped Docklands area of eastern London. It is administered by Transport for London; it is not part of the London Underground, but it does appear on the Tube map. The sys. A bus service runs to London City AirportLondon City Airport is a single-runway STOLPORT situated in East London in the London Borough of Newham developed by the private engineering company Mowlem in 1986/87. It has since been extended in three significant stages. The runway was lengthened and t. A small shopping mall is at the base of the development.

1 See Also

• Tall buildings in LondonLondon is a city with strict limits to building height and with protected views of certain buildings from particular locations (notably St Paul's). Permission to build skyscrapers in the centre of the city is granted on a case-by-case basis. For this reas

2 External link

• Foster and Partners' website