Broadgate

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title: "Broadgate" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["buildings-and-structures-in-the-city-of-london", "districts-of-the-city-of-london", "redevelopment-projects-in-london", "privately-owned-public-spaces", "british-land"] description: "Office and retail estate in the City of London" topic_path: "geography/united-kingdom" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadgate" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Broadgate is a large, 32 acre office and retail estate in the Bishopsgate area of the City of London. It is owned by British Land and GIC and managed by British Land.

History

The original developer was a joint venture of Rosehaugh and Stanhope plc. It was built by a Bovis / Tarmac Construction joint venture and was the largest office development in London until the arrival of Canary Wharf in the early 1990s. The original scheme was designed by Arup Associates, Team 2, headed by Peter Foggo who later left Arup to set up his own practice Peter Foggo Associates where he completed the initial phase of works.

Location

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The modern and mainly-pedestrianised development is located on the original site of Broad Street station (closed in 1986) and beside and above the railway approaches into Liverpool Street station. The perimeter of the managed estate is Bishopsgate to the east, Sun Street, Appold Street and the eastern part of Worship Street to the north, the southern part of Wilson Street to the west and Eldon Street and Liverpool Street to the south. Included in the estate are Broadgate Circle and Exchange Square.

Boundary changes which came into effect in 1994 now place the entire estate within the Bishopsgate area of the City of London, previously it was in Shoreditch in the London Borough of Hackney.

Ownership

Several different companies, including British Rail, have participated in the development of the estate. Between 2003 and 2009 the whole estate was owned by British Land, which has been involved since 1984. Statistics from British Land as of 2009 indicated that the estate provides 360000 m2 of office, retail and leisure accommodation spread over 129000 m2 and more than 30,000 people are employed there. In October 2009, British Land sold a 50% share of the estate to the Blackstone Group. In 2014, GIC agreed to acquire the 50% interest in Broadgate owned by the Blackstone Group.

Buildings

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The 538 ft Broadgate Tower was completed in 2008 and added more than 820000 sqft of commercial floorspace to the estate. This building stands over the railway tracks out of Liverpool Street station. Exchange House, designed by Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill and completed in 1990, also spans the railway with just 5% of the building's footprint touching the ground. It received the Twenty-five Year Award from the American Institute of Architects in 2015.

In early 2011 there was controversy over the redevelopment of the site of a Peter Foggo building, when it was suggested by the City of London's Chief Planning Officer Peter Rees and Ken Shuttleworth that Foggo would have been pleased that the building would be demolished.

The headquarters of Swiss bank UBS are situated at 5 Broadgate, a steel-clad groundscraper designed by Ken Shuttleworth of Make Architects.

Events

On 7 August 2010, Broadgate became host to the twice-monthly Broadgate Farmers' Market.

In the winter months Broadgate Circle used to host Broadgate Ice; London's only turn up and skate ice rink. In November 2017, Broadgate installed their first Christmas market.

Arts Programme

In 2012, Broadgate announced the Broadgate Art Trail which would showcase 16 artworks over a 32-acre plot.

References

References

1. "Savills acquires British Land's third-party property management portfolio". [[Savills]].
2. (12 December 2014). "Sir Stuart Lipton: The veteran property developer with a vision for a swathe of rundown London". The Evening Standard.
3. "Cranes and blue sky on a large construction site at Broadgate development in the City of London". Glix.
4. "Practice History of Foggo Associates".
5. "Getting around Broadgate". Broadgate.
6. {{Cite legislation UK. (1993). (28 May 1993)
7. [http://www.britishland.com/property/london_offices/city Broadgate (50% owned)] {{webarchive. link. (4 March 2010)
8. [http://www.britishland.com/investors/broadgatejv Strategic Partnership for Broadgate] {{webarchive. link. (9 January 2010)
9. [http://www.britishland.com/media/news/2013/24-12-2013.aspx British Land and GIC Sign Joint Venture Agreement for Broadgate] 24 December 2015 {{webarchive. link. (26 February 2014)
10. "Broadgate Tower". Skyscraper Center.
11. "Broadgate Exchange House".
12. Booth, Robert. "Heritage or horror? Row over Broadgate demolition plan". [[The Guardian]].
13. "5 Broadgate".
14. "'Broadgate Farmers Market'".
15. "'The Winter Forest - Broadgate'".
16. Moss, Abigail. "Broadgate Art Trail: Broadgate the place to be?".

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