East India Dock House is a Grade II* listed building in Poplar and is in the

London Borough of Tower Hamlets The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a London boroughs, London borough covering much of the traditional East End of London, East End. It was formed in 1965 from the merger of the former Metropolitan boroughs of the County of London, metropol ...

. It was originally built in 1988 as a printworks for the ''

Financial Times The ''Financial Times'' (''FT'') is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs. Based in London, England, the paper is owned by a Japanese holding company, Nik ...

''.

History

East India Dock House was built in 1988 by

Nicholas Grimshaw Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, CBE, PPRA (born 9 October 1939) is a prominent English architect, particularly noted for several modernist buildings, including London's Waterloo International railway station and the Eden Project in Cornwall. He was Pre ...

& Partners (now Grimshaw Architects) as a printing house for the ''

''. The building is made out of cladding, steel and glass, and is situated on East India Dock Road. During the early 1990s, it won multiple architectural awards. The ''Financial Times'' moved out in 1995, and the building was later used as a data centre. It became a Grade II* listed building in 2016.

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{{reflist, 30em Grade II* listed buildings in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Office buildings completed in 1988 Poplar, London

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