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Canada Square, London

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In 1991, One Canada Square, the UK's tallest skyscraper, changed the London skyline. The developers took a billion dollar gamble on creating an international financial center, symbolized by this obelisk-shaped tower. Unfortunately, when the world property market collapsed just after the complex was completed, the developers went bankrupt and a large part of the tower lay in darkness…

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