Colonial Bank Centre
| Colonial Bank Centre | |
|---|---|
| |
| Completed | |
| Begun | 1995 |
| Completion | 1997 |
| Structure | Reinforced concrete |
| Location | |
| Locale | Asbury Financial District, Imperium |
| Address | 15100 Clay Street |
| Height | |
| Roof | 262m |
| Pinnacle | 262m |
| Floors | 63 (+ 4 basement floors) |
| Companies | |
| Vincent, Thompson, and Roberts Ltd. (Arch.) | |
| Apollinus Construction (Construction) | |
| Observation Deck | |
| No | |
| Opening | 1997 |
The Colonial Bank Centre is a small skyscraper in Imperium, the United Kingdom. Relatively modest at only sixty-three stories, the building reaches only 262 meters high and by some definitions within the UK cannot be rightly considered a skyscraper, with the commonly accepted minimum height now at 275 meters with the advent of modern supertall structures.
The building is constructed largely within the bounds of the modernist style of architecture as the buildings supports are shrouded in a façade of reflective blue glass. The architectural firm Vincent, Thompson, and Roberts Ltd. designed the office complex whose largest tenant is Colonial Bank, a large banking corporation who despite headquarters in Philadelphia retains a large client base in Imperium.
Essentially the structure consists of four square-footprint towers topped with triangular caps, and the whole of the four buildings are bundled together until each tower successively raises above the previous. At the centre of each mini-tower is the core containing the utility services and elevators that provide access to the building and form the central support system for the building.
In line with the progressive policies of the largest tenant the building utilises then-new systems of energy conservation and environmentally-friendly systems. The triangular faces of the caps sport large solar panels, two facing north and two facing south for those times when the sun moves north to the Tropic of Cancer and strikes the building from a northern direction. Also the bases of the caps feature rain collection systems that run into water purification systems that alleviate the building’s draw on the New Thames for its water.
Owing to the comparatively small height of the building in relation to its neighbours there are no broadcasting antennae within the building, only private and commercial communication equipment housed in the tallest cap.
