Clearwater
Court is the Headquarters building of
Thames Water. Appropriately, it
occupies a site beside the River
Thames close to Reading Railway
Station and downtown Reading.
The company moved into the £20
million building in June of
2001.
The building is
configured in a C-shape with an
internal courtyard that looks out
towards the river. Providing
82,000 square feet of office space
over 5 floors it also has a
"semi-basement" car park for the
employees. One of the
interesting features is the twin
glass-clad spiral stairways that
unfortunately were swathed in
scaffolding when I took these images
in 2014.
In 2007 Thames
Water sold Clearwater Court to
Standard Life Investment Funds Limited
for a reported £43million and then
took out a 25 year lease to remain in
the building.