One Coleman Street

This nine-storey landmark building – a popular piece of modern City architecture thanks to its ‘space-age’ sensibilities – is clad in polished precast concrete panels with polished stainless steel trimmed windows. An impressive entrance hall welcomes visitors.

The scheme set out to unite the disparate urban context of the eastern end of London Wall and Coleman Street by re-establishing its street wall, and creating a new garden on the southern side.

The previous site Austral House, had marked the entrance to Coleman Street from London Wall with a ramp to an underground car park, a massive impediment to pedestrian movement.

The removal of the ramp made it possible to reinstate the curved line of Coleman Street to London Wall. Coleman Street, now pedestrianised, opens out to create an attractive public space at its northern end.

21,133m², David Walker Architects, Swanke Hayden Connell Ltd, 2007.