Cabot Square
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Canary Wharf
Canary Wharf is a major business district located in London, United Kingdom. It is one of London's two main financial centres, alongside the traditional City of London, and contains many of the UK's tallest buildings, including the second-tallest , One Canada Square...
Development in London
London
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's Docklands.
The square includes a fountain and several works of art, and is the address for the London Offices of Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse
The Credit Suisse Group AG is a Swiss multinational financial services company headquartered in Zurich, with more than 250 branches in Switzerland and operations in more than 50 countries.-History:...
and Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000....
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Cabot Place, on the east side of the square is a large shopping centre, and the square is also home to several restaurants including First Edition, Sri Nam and Corney and Barrow.
Cabot Hall
Cabot Hall
Cabot Hall was a large banqueting and performance hall situated in Canary Wharf, in London's Docklands.It was opened in 1991 and hosted events including lectures by Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and Nelson Mandela as well as music events....
, on the east side of the square is a large banqueting and performance hall which opened in 1991 and is the venue for regular concerts and events. In 2006 Canary Wharf Group
Canary Wharf Group
Canary Wharf Group plc is the owner and developer of nearly of property at Canary Wharf in London. It is notable because over the last 10 years it has constructed more office space in London than any other developer...
announced that Cabot Hall would close at the end of 2006 to be converted into additional retail and restaurants.
Cabot Square and Cabot Hall are named after explorer John Cabot
John Cabot
John Cabot was an Italian navigator and explorer whose 1497 discovery of parts of North America is commonly held to have been the first European encounter with the continent of North America since the Norse Vikings in the eleventh century...
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See also
- 1 Cabot Square1 Cabot Square1 Cabot Square is a 21 floor office building occupied by Credit Suisse in the Canary Wharf development in London, England. Original plans called for a skyscraper on this site for CSFB, however the slump at the end of the 1980s saw these plans scaled back.The architect on the project was Pei Cobb...
- 10 Cabot Square
- 20 Cabot Square
- 25 Cabot Square25 Cabot Square25 Cabot Square is a 17 floor office building occupied by Morgan Stanley in the Canary Wharf development in London, England.The architect on the project was Skidmore Owings & Merrill, and the building was completed in 1991...
- Cabot HallCabot HallCabot Hall was a large banqueting and performance hall situated in Canary Wharf, in London's Docklands.It was opened in 1991 and hosted events including lectures by Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and Nelson Mandela as well as music events....
- Canary WharfCanary WharfCanary Wharf is a major business district located in London, United Kingdom. It is one of London's two main financial centres, alongside the traditional City of London, and contains many of the UK's tallest buildings, including the second-tallest , One Canada Square...