Drapers Gardens, London EC2 1979
14 April 1979: NatWest Drapers Gardens, 12 Throgmorton Avenue - East Side
Drapers Gardens was an office tower block in the City of London, designed by architect Richard Seifert and complered in 1967. After completion, the building was leased by the National Provincial Bank and continued to be used by the successor National Westminster Bank until the 1990s. It was used as overflow office space for the bank's nearby Head Office at 41 Lothbury and as a contingency site following the IRA bombing in Bishopsgate in 1993. It stood 328 feet tall and had 30 storeys.
It was demolished in 2007. It held the record for the tallest building to be demolished in the UK, surpassing Limebank House which stood 305 feet tall.
As of 2018, it remains the joint-tallest demolished building in the country, alongside the subsequent Southwark Towers, demolished the year after Drapers' Gardens.
Drapers Gardens, London EC2 1979
14 April 1979: NatWest Drapers Gardens, 12 Throgmorton Avenue - East Side
Drapers Gardens was an office tower block in the City of London, designed by architect Richard Seifert and complered in 1967. After completion, the building was leased by the National Provincial Bank and continued to be used by the successor National Westminster Bank until the 1990s. It was used as overflow office space for the bank's nearby Head Office at 41 Lothbury and as a contingency site following the IRA bombing in Bishopsgate in 1993. It stood 328 feet tall and had 30 storeys.
It was demolished in 2007. It held the record for the tallest building to be demolished in the UK, surpassing Limebank House which stood 305 feet tall.
As of 2018, it remains the joint-tallest demolished building in the country, alongside the subsequent Southwark Towers, demolished the year after Drapers' Gardens.