The building, which will boast 60,000 square feet of office space, will be one of two buildings which will make up the London Bridge Quarter development.
Leading architect Renzo Piano designed the 17-storey building, dubbed The Place, and construction has already commenced.
Irvine Sellar, Chairman of Sellar Group, said: “The Place will be London’s largest and most efficient office building to hit the market in 2013 – at a time when there is expected to be a real shortage of prime Grade A space available to let. The Place benefits from sharing architectural, design and construction DNA with The Shard, which will be completed next year.
“Its location, on top of one of London’s busiest transport hubs, fulfils the needs of the employer and employees alike, as it is served by a mainline station, two underground lines, Thameslink and a large number of bus routes, making the daily commute so much easier. But it is also located in one of the capital’s most dynamic and increasingly attractive areas that benefit from a wide range of cultural and leisure activities.”
CBRE and Colliers International are in charge of letting the building. Digby Flower of CBRE called the London Bridge area “one of the capital’s most vibrant communities.”
He added that The Place provides the most efficient floor plates and sustainability levels possible.
Thanks to The Place’s double-skin façade, only 12 per cent of the sun’s heat enters the building, drastically reducing the need to cool it.
Carbon emissions from The Place are also about 60 per cent lower than those of a typical Grade A office building in London.
Editor’s notes: Using members of the team that built The Shard, The Place was completed in 2013. The 18-storey building in the London Bridge Quadrant provides over 430,000 square feet of office space and over 21,000 square feet of retail space.
The Place was also known as The Baby Shard until 2014, when its name was changed to The News Building as it, at the time, housed all of News UK’s London operations, including The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, talkSPORT, TalkRADIO, Times Radio, and Virgin Radio. Book publisher HarperCollins also rented office space in the building.
In January 2017, Sky News opened its new Business Studio there. However, in September 2019, Sky moved its business studios to join its sister channel CNBC Europe at 10 Fleet Place.
The building made the news, so to speak, in July 2022, when Extinction Rebellion activists smashed windows in response to The Sun and The Times’ coverage of the 2022 United Kingdom heatwave.
Hybrid workspace provider Regus also operates space in The News Building, offering a range of flexible office and workspace solutions that serve as agile alternatives to leased office space.
The London Bridge Quarter became known as the Shard Quarter after the State of Qatar consolidated ownership of The Shard in 2009, when it bought out the stakes of private Qatari investors.
As of September 2026, another high-profile occupier at the Shard Quarter was Norton Rose Fulbright, which moved into 3 More London Place, London SE1 2AQ in 2007, when it was known as Norton Rose.
In 2025, the US law firm’s revenue was $2.4 billion.
A high-profile occupier at 10 Fleet Place, alongside CNBC Europe, is management, engineering and development consultancy Mott MacDonald, which committed to an additional 20,000 square feet of rented office space on the 4th floor in Q1 2024, bringing its total space in the building to circa 60,000 square feet.