This booklet provides a guide to central London's rich mix of office districts and clusters. London is often described as a city of villages, a description which aptly captures the enormous variety and character of the different areas that make up the UK capital. The guide also explains some of the emerging areas of the capital, areas of opportunity that will absorb the substantial growth that London still expects to take place over the next couple of decades. 

The ancient City continues to operate as one of the world's greatest trading hubs despite having to do so within a medieval street layout; even within the Square Mile there remain postal codes that attract different occupiers - EC3 for insurance,EC2 for financial and EC4 for legal. The West End commands higher rents for smaller sized buildings and attracts a different class of customer, although perhaps fewer hedge funds than in previous years.How different is the character of Canary Wharf!Its rigorously planned floor plates and towers owe more to Toronto and Battery Park than they do to the Isle of Dogs, or Fitzrovia with its rich literary history, pleasant Georgian streets and busy restaurants. 

Here the occupier groups are split between advertising and engineering. The guide also explains some of the emerging areas of the capital, areas of opportunity that will absorb the substantial growth that London still expects to take place over the next couple of decades. Nine Elms, Stratford and Greenwich Peninsula are massive brownfield sites with ambitions to capture substantial chunks of the future office market. Each section highlights significant commercial buildings alongside recently completed and under construction buildings, as well as a selection of proposed developments.

Introduction
By Peter Murray, NLA Curator-in-chief

Districts
Significant recent and under construction commercial buildings, as well as proposed developments in the following areas:

Published July 2010
76 Pages