Broadgate Circle is undergoing massive redevelopment. Here is the view looking North.
Sketched, 30 December 2024 in sketchbook 15.
The concrete cores in the background are 2 Finsbury Avenue under construction. The previous building was demolished. On the left is 1-2 Broadgate, replacing previous buildings. The steel-clad building on the right is 5 Broadgate which replaced 4 and 6 Broadgate and sealed up the access road that led between them.
Broadgate Circle was constructed in 1985-7 on the site of the former Broad Street station. Here is what the 1980s buildings looked like:
From: https://knowyourlondon.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/broadgate-circle/
5 Broadgate, on the right of my sketch, replaced the two buildings in the photo above. It is occupied by the bank UBS. The building has its own Wikipedia page:
The two lowest storeys contain a 200-seat auditorium, restaurants, a gym, and a dry cleaner. Above those are four trading floors which can fit 3,000 people each, as well as seven storeys of offices above. The superstructure is divided into a grid of 13.5-by-12-metre (44 by 39 ft) sections, arranged around the trading floors. Three of the building’s four utility cores are placed along the site perimeter to increase the amount of space on each trading floor.
Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Broadgate
The new 2 Finsbury Avenue “consists of a 12-storey podium with a 21-storey West Tower and 36-storey East Tower.”1 It is due to be completed in 20272 and will look like this:
For scale: 5 Broadgate Circle is on the right of this picture, with the >< signs on the side.
Broadgate Circle is owned as a joint venture between British Land and GIC3. It is adjacent to Liverpool Street Station on the East side of the City of London.
Here are photos while I was sketching:
Here are links to more views of the 1980s buildings:
From: https://www.meinhardt.co.uk/projects/4-6-broadgate/
- Pictures and descriptions of the new 2 Finsbury Avenue are from the architects’ website: https://3xn.com/project/2-finsbury-avenue-broadgate ↩︎
- 18 April 2024 Press release from British Land and GIC. See the press release on this link, file attached below in case the link has expired. https://www.britishland.com/news/broadgate-secures-landmark-pre-let-at-2-finsbury-avenue/ ↩︎
- British Land is a UK property developer and GIC is “a leading global investment firm established in 1981 to secure Singapore’s financial future”. GIC is “the manager of Singapore’s foreign reserves” Quotes are from press release below. ↩︎
Jane Sketching 
Wonderful
LikeLike
Your maps are always great.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you Terry! I like to record the “where” as well as the “what”! I’m so glad you enjoy the maps.
There’s a collection of them on this link.
LikeLiked by 1 person