Key Facts
- Office space — 102,190 square metres (1,100,000 sq ft).
- Floors — 42 above ground.
- Staff restaurant — 850 seater facility is the largest of its kind in Europe, serving around 2,500 meals daily.
- Concrete — 180,000 tonnes.
- Steel — 14,000 tonnes.
- Glass — 45,000 square metres or 484,200 square feet (44,980 m2).
- The building was sold in 2007 to Spanish real-estate firm Metrovacesa for £1.09 billion. It is the biggest ever property deal in British history.
- HSBC had bought back the tower from Metrovacesa for £838 million in 2008, but sold it to the National Pension Service of Korea in 2009.
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