{{Short description|Office building in the City of London}} {{Other uses|City Point (disambiguation){{!}}City Point}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox building |name= Citypoint |image=File:City Point 29.01.2020 (10).jpg |caption=CityPoint, January 2020 |construction_start_date = |completion_date= {{Start date and age|1967|df=yes}} |status= Complete |building_type= Commercial |location= London, {{postcode|EC|2}}<br />United Kingdom |antenna_spire= |top_floor= |roof= 127 m (417 ft) |floor_count= 35 |floor_area= |elevator_count= |other_dimensions = |architect= |main_contractor= |structural_engineer = }}
'''Citypoint''' (previously known as '''Britannic House''' and '''Britannic Tower''') is a building located on Ropemaker Street on the northern fringe of the City of London, the main financial district and historic nucleus of London. It is the 13th-tallest building in the City and the 63rd-tallest in Greater London.
Originally named Britannic House, Citypoint was built in 1967 as a 35-storey, {{convert|122|m|ft|0|adj=on}} tall headquarters for British Petroleum (now BP), becoming the first building in the City of London area to exceed the height of St Paul's Cathedral. The designers were F. Milton Cashmore and H. N. W. Grosvenor.<ref>[http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/diad/article.php?year=1968&title=236&article=d.236.15 Design Journal] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110317172224/http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/diad/article.php?title=236&year=1968&article=d.236.15 |date=2011-03-17 }}</ref> In 1991 British Petroleum moved back to their original headquarters on Finsbury Circus and the building was renamed Britannic Tower.
It was refurbished in 2000, with additional floor space and the height increased to {{convert|127|m|ft|0}}. The designer for the refurbishment was Sheppard Robson.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.skyscrapernews.com/buildings.php?id=81 |title=Citypoint on Skyscrapernews.com |access-date=22 August 2007 |archive-date=5 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705191258/http://www.skyscrapernews.com/buildings.php?id=81 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was renamed Citypoint after its refurbishment.
In August 2005 its owner, Pillar Properties, sold the building for more than £500 million in one of the largest deals ever seen in the City office market. In early 2007 the building was again put on the market, this time for £650 million, and purchased by Beacon Capital Partners, a private American company. At the time it was the most expensive building sale in the United Kingdom. A few months later, the sale of 8 Canada Square at Canary Wharf eclipsed this when it was sold for over £1 billion.
A number of other large buildings have been constructed nearby, including The Heron, a 36-storey {{convert|112|m|ft|0|adj=on}} residential tower at Milton Court and a {{convert|90|m|ft|0|adj=on}} office tower at Ropemaker Place developed by British Land.
== Britannic House == '''Britannic House''' is the name of three buildings in the City of London that have served as the UK headquarters of BP and its predecessor companies.
'''Britannic House''', 23 Great Winchester Street, EC2N 2DB, A 4-floor building. Headquarters of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (founded in 1909) from November 1917 until c. 1925.<ref>{{Cite news |date=19 Nov 1917 |title=Notes and Reports |work=The Globe |pages=9}}</ref> Nos. 23, 24, 25 Great Winchester Street are group listed Grade II (list entry number 1358913, 16 January 1981)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1358913?section=overview |access-date=29 April 2026}}</ref>.
'''Britannic House''', 1-6 Finsbury Circus, EC2M 7EB. Also known as '''Lutyens House'''. Designed by Edwin Lutyens, Grade II* listed (entry number 1064691, 4 January 1950),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064691?section=official-list-entry |access-date=29 April 2026|url-status=dead}}</ref> and located in the northwest quadrant of Finsbury Circus. British headquarters of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company from c. 1925. Company was renamed the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in 1935, and British Petroleum in 1954. British Petroleum relocated to Ropemaker Street in 1967, and then back to Finsbury Circus in 1991, and subsequently to 1 St. James’s Square, SW1Y 4PD.
'''Britannic House''', 1 Ropemaker Street, EC2Y 9HR. The subject of this article. Designed by F. Milton Cashmore and H. N. W. Grosvenor, a 35-storey 122-metre (400-ft) tall building, constructed 1967. Occupied by BP from 1967 to 1991. Renamed '''Britannic Tower''' in 1991, and '''Citypoint''' after refurbishment in 2000.
==Image gallery== <gallery heights="160px"> File:City Point building.jpg|Aerial view File:City Point 29.01.2020 (6).jpg|From below at street level File:City Point 29.01.2020 (11).jpg|From outside main entrance </gallery>
==See also== *Moor House *Moorgate *List of tallest buildings and structures in London
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.skyscrapernews.com/buildings.php?id=81 Citypoint on Skyscrapernews.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705191258/http://www.skyscrapernews.com/buildings.php?id=81 |date=5 July 2022 }} *{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20040625105834/http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=110662 from emporis.com]}}
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