30 Cannon Street is a modern office building on Cannon Street in the City of London, close to Mansion House underground station. It was designed by Whinney, Son & Austen Hall as an office building for Crédit Lyonnais and built between 1974 and 1977. It became a Grade II listed building in 2015.
The location was formerly the site of the city church of St Mildred, Bread Street, designed by Christopher Wren after the medieval church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London; the Wren church was bombed and destroyed in the Second World War. The site was one of the last bomb sites in London to be redeveloped.
The building has six storeys with a raised basement. Its height was limited due to its proximity to St Paul's Cathedral to the north-west, and the high water table prevented a sub-basement. Its shape was constrained by its triangular island site, east of Bread Street, west of the junction where Cannon Street crosses Queen Victoria Street. It originally had an entrance on each façade (the western one on Bread Street has been removed) and a large central circular banking hall (also now removed). Although built for Crédit Lyonnais, it was designed so it could occupied by three separate banks, one in each corner of the building, but the interior has been significantly altered.
The façades are characterised by tiers of repeating arched white frames around recessed windows of bronze-tinted glass, with each tier separated by a black granite string course which incorporates hidden drainage. The cladding units are pre-cast double-skinned 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) wide modules of glass fibre reinforced cement (GRC), using a mixture of Portland cement with 5% alkali-resistant glass fibre as reinforcement. It was the first building in the world to be entirely clad with GRC panels. Triple-width modules on the ground floor 4.5 metres (15 ft) wide have two canted windowpanes meeting at an angle, with similar modules repeated on upper floors to either side of the entrances. The slim profile and light weight of the GRC panels allowed the architect to slope the walls outward at an angle of five degrees, with each floor slightly larger than the one below, creating extra office space.[1] The units of the partial upper floor are inverted, creating a roof line that resembles a crown to the north side and at the eastern end; a roof deck occupies at the south-western corner. Railings on the street have shapes similar to the cladding panels.
View in 2007 from south-east
Details of windows and entrance in 2007
^"Credit Lyonnais - The International Glassfibre Reinforced Concrete Association (GRCA) for all your GRC / GFRC information". grca.org.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
51°30′45″N 0°05′41″W / 51.51246°N 0.09478°W / 51.51246; -0.09478 30CannonStreet is a modern office building on CannonStreet in the City of London...
CannonStreet is a road in the City of London, the historic nucleus of London and its modern financial centre. It runs roughly parallel with the River...
CannonStreet station, also known as London CannonStreet, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in Travelcard...
Southeast San Diego. While in his teenage years, Cannon was affiliated with the Lincoln Park Bloods street gang, but stated that he left behind his affiliations...
This is a list of films released by The Cannon Group, a defunct group of companies – including Cannon Films – which operated from 1967 to 1994. Film portal...
A cannon is a large-caliber gun classified as a type of artillery, which usually launches a projectile using explosive chemical propellant. Gunpowder ("black...
The international title, Cannon Spike, is the name of a trademark attack performed by Cammy, a character from the Street Fighter series of video games...
packed commuter train failed to stop and collided with the buffers at CannonStreet station in London, United Kingdom, killing two and injuring 542. The...
Gallery in Bratislava, designed by Vladimír Dedeček, is completed. 30CannonStreet in the City of London, England, designed by engineers Whinney, Son...
Katherine Cannon (born September 6, 1953, in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American actress. Cannon's early roles included Hawaii Five-O (episode: "Time...
A water cannon is a device that shoots a high-velocity stream of water. Typically, a water cannon can deliver a large volume of water, often over dozens...
game Cannon Spike. An alternate version of Charlie named Shadow appears as a hidden character in the crossover game Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter...
professional wrestler, better known by his ring names Johnny Prime and Lucky Cannon. He is best known for his appearances for WWE, where he performed on the...
new CannonStreet entrance New southbound platform of the Northern line Moving walkways connecting the Central and Northern lines CannonStreet entrance...
Cannon Blake Hinnant (April 30, 2015 – August 9, 2020) was a five-year-old American boy from Wilson, North Carolina who was shot and killed on August 9...
on May 30, 2008. Retrieved June 1, 2008. Tina Fey & Kay Cannon (writers); Beth McCarthy (director) (November 15, 2007). "Somebody To Love". 30 Rock. Season...
Donald Cannon (born August 2, 1979) is an American DJ, record producer, songwriter, and record executive. Cannon is a co-founder of the Atlantic Records...
the Street Fighter series and the sequel to 1987's Street Fighter. It is Capcom's fourteenth game to use the CP System arcade system board. Street Fighter...
Global Information
View in 2007 from south-east
Details of windows and entrance in 2007
