{"id":101817,"date":"2026-08-12T08:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/101817\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T08:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:46:15","slug":"kpf-submits-retrofit-plans-for-fosters-canary-wharf-hsbc-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/101817\/","title":{"rendered":"KPF submits retrofit plans for Foster\u2019s Canary Wharf HSBC tower"},"content":{"rendered":"

Its plans for the 45-storey tower, submitted to Tower Hamlets Council earlier this month, involve part-demolition, part-retention, and retrofit of the existing 24-year-old, 200m-tall office building, currently home to HSBC.<\/p>\n

The mixed-use scheme, for the Canary Wharf Group (CWG) and project backer Qatar Investment Authority, comprises flexible commercial workspace, leisure uses, a hotel, and food and beverage at ground level.\u00a0<\/p>\n

KPF won the competition<\/a> for the job in July 2024, topping\u00a0an undisclosed shortlist, understood to include 3XN as well as Fosters itself.<\/p>\n

The practice is proposing fa\u00e7ade alterations, cut-outs of the existing structure, and the introduction of external terraces. The plans will change existing floorplates and create a \u2018radically reimagined\u2019 ground floor and public realm, according to planning documents.<\/p>\n

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KPF\u2019s submitted 8 Canada Square plans (summer 2026)<\/p>\n

Source: KPF<\/p>\n

Around 97,600m\u00b2 of office space has been \u2018designed to attract a broad range of occupiers with floor plates subdivisible to two as a baseline, introduce external amenity, improved biodiversity and better building performance\u2019, KPF says in a design and access statement.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, at the upper levels, a 6,030m\u00b2 \u2018experiential leisure destination is envisioned\u2019, dubbed The Cloud, which will sit above a 18,100m\u00b2 hotel. This will contain leisure facilities with views of Canary Wharf and central London, accessible from a lift directly from ground level.<\/p>\n

The redevelopment also provides new accessible routes at ground level between the nearby Elizabeth Line station and Canada Square Park.<\/p>\n

The documents do not make clear whether the top floor leisure space will become Canary Wharf\u2019s first public viewing gallery, as previously suggested. CWG had also previously floated the possibility of residential purposes for the building rather than the current hotel proposal.<\/p>\n

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KPF\u2019s submitted 8 Canada Square plans, shown on left (summer 2026)<\/p>\n

Source: KPF<\/p>\n

The scheme retains approximately 85 per cent of materials in the building, CWG says, estimating an embodied carbon value of 479kgCO2e (A1-A5), which exceeds the Greater London Authority target of 600kgCO2e.<\/p>\n

The planning documents outline several proposed massing and colour options for the now-submitted scheme, which KPF design principal Elie Gamburg told the AJ after winning the competition would be \u2018a blueprint for the highly sustainable, mixed-use building of the future\u2019.<\/p>\n

Work on the scheme is expected to begin once HSBC has vacated the building and when there is a \u2018significant pre-let\u2019, the AJ understands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Its plans for the 45-storey tower, submitted to Tower Hamlets Council earlier this month, involve part-demolition, part-retention, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[20667],"tags":[1202,20476,9881,42860,4559],"class_list":["post-101817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hsbc","tag-canary-wharf","tag-foster-partners","tag-hsbc","tag-kpf","tag-retrofit"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117081668887615169","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}