125 Old Broad Street, formerly known as the Stock Exchange Tower and still often referred to as such, is a high-rise office building in London, located on Old Broad Street in the

City of London The City of London is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the historic centre and constitutes, alongside Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London. It constituted most of London f ...

financial district. For over 30 years the Stock Exchange Tower was the home of the

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, until the latter's relocation to

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in 2004.

History

Standing at tall with 26 floors, the Stock Exchange Tower was completed by

Trollope & Colls Trollope & Colls was once one of the United Kingdom's largest construction companies. History The Company was formed in 1903, out of the merger of ''George Trollope & Sons'' (founded by Joseph Trollope, a wallpaper hanger, in 1778) and ''Colls & S ...

in 1970 and officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 8 November 1972. It served as the headquarters, offices and trading floor for the

until the exchange departed for new premises in nearby

in July 2004. Face-to-face trading was conducted on the trading floor of the exchange until it was abolished in favour of electronic trading in the October 1986 deregulation of the London Stock Exchange known as the ' Big Bang'. On 20 July 1990, the

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exploded a bomb inside the tower, causing its evacuation. The bomb destroyed the public viewing areas in the building which subsequently closed in 1992. It was also evacuated on 11 September 2001, after the terrorist attacks on the

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in New York City.

Renovation

The building underwent a major renovation which saw its pre-cast concrete façade reclad in a glass curtain wall, and thousands of square metres of additional office space created, including a new 10-storey building at No. 60

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, a six-storey wing to the east, and a single-storey wing to the northwest. As part of the renovation, the floor plates were extended beyond the perimeter of the original building to give more overall space. The renovation scheme was designed by Grimshaw Architects. The building has 11 passenger lifts and one goods lift, as well as firefighting lifts and vehicle shuttle lifts. Image:The Old Stock Exchange 1983 - geograph.org.uk - 3194031.jpg, The Stock Exchange Tower pictured from atop the National Westminster Tower (1983). Image:LSE 1.jpg, The Stock Exchange Tower before the recladding (1990s). Image:London_stock_exchange_reclad_1.jpg, The recladding in progress (May 2007).

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Renovation

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