David Walker Architects

Description

Bow Bells House is a new 215,000 sq ft office building completed in 2008. The site is located next to Wren's St Mary-Le-Bow at the midpoint of Cheapside, the City of London's grand avenue linking its two greatest monuments: the Bank of England and St Paul's Cathedral. The building set out to enhance the setting of St Mary-Le-Bow and transform its churchyard into an important public space enhancing the pedestrian movement in and around the site. 

The elevations feature large-scale windows deeply set into flush Portland Stone incorporating projecting “cassettes” of double skin “clima” façade in silver aluminium and clear glass. At the upper levels, white glass fins provide shading adding a vertical counter-point to the larger, horizontal elements below.