West India Quay Marriott Canary Wharf Hotel

Architect	HO+K
Date Built	2004
Location	Canary Wharf
Description
This curved 32-storey tower on West India Quay at Canary Wharf is clad in glass and aluminium. The first 12 storeys are occupied by a Marriott hotel offering 279 rooms and 22 suites. Over 200 apartments occupy the upper floors. The architect's website says that the building, " ... is one of the first post-tensioned, concrete-framed towers in London, employing a system widely used in the United States and the Far East. This method reduced construction time by approximately 30 percent. Thin concrete floor slabs provide generous internal floor-to-ceiling heights while reducing the height of the tower. The elegance of this building contrasts with some of the postmodern blocks constructed in the early days of Canary Wharf. The tower comes to an acute angle on its western edge, where a sharp “prow” contains double-height living rooms for the duplex apartments."