Walking on water

By Nicola Turner 2000-06-01T00:00:00

In the late 1980s Olympia & York believed it could do for London what its World Financial Centre on Manhattan’s riverfront had done for New York. It created Canary Wharf with the intention of providing high quality office space for financial groups which had been squeezed out of the City. ...

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