25 Churchill Place is a tall skyscraper in the eastern part of the London financial district

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. It was built in 2014 and has 23 storeys. The building was developed by

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and designed by

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History

Planning

Canary Wharf Group applied to

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for planning permission to construct a 23-storey building at 25 Churchill Place, E14 in April 2008. Permission was granted in November 2008. 25 Churchill Place was planned to be an energy-efficient and sustainable office building. The Environmental features would include lifts that could store and reuse the energy elsewhere in the building. It also planned to has 19 storeys of grade A office space. The building was designed by architects

who also designed

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in the

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Financial District and will be developed by

Construction

Construction began on the 23-storey tower in February 2012 with Canary Wharf Contractors Limited as the main building contractor. On 7 February 2013, the installation of the final section of the steel frame marks the completion of the building and had reached a major milestone. It was completed and opened in 2014 with a height of .

Tenants

25 Churchill Place has been used by some notable companies and organizations as their headquarter. It houses

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since 2015, who have taken floors 11–21. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) took floors 1–10 in 2014, however due to

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the EMA has now relocated to

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, with US company

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subletting the space as well as floors 11 and 13.

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