With half of the site dedicated to public realm, London Wall
Place has created a new destination for the City. It has also
initiated plans to reduce the dominance of the London Wall dual
carriageway, which was narrowed to prioritise pedestrian and cycle
movement as part of the scheme. The public realm is formed of
a series of pocket gardens for people to discover that, together
with the adjacent Salters’ Hall Garden and soon-to-be-completed
St Alphag e Garden, delivers more than 1.5 acres of public space
and over 780m 2 of green walls across multiple terraced levels. The
walkways, which include four bridges that cross London Wall, Wood
Street, Fore Street and Fore Street Avenue, cover 350m and house a
new raised garden. The varied levels are conceived as a continuous
three-dimensional landscape, providing pedestrian connection,
sanctuary from the City, or simply somewhere to lunch.
The two buildings enclose the new London Wall Place gardens. 1
London Wall Place delivers 310,000ft 2 of new state-of-the-art
office and trading facilities, and a series of nine roof terraces over
13 storeys. In 2013, 1 London Wall Place was entirely pre-let to
Schroders marking a significant turning point in the commercial
real estate market as the largest deal signed in London since the
beginning of the global recession.
2 London Wall Place is a multi-tenanted 17-storey tower, with a
retail and restaurant unit at Level 1 and a café at ground level. As of
the end of May 2018 it was 73 per cent let with international law
firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton taking the top four floors,
for a total of 48,000ft 2 .