King's Reach Tower
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King's Reach Tower is a high-rise office building in Stamford Street, Southwark
Southwark
Southwark is a district of south London, England, and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Southwark. Situated east of Charing Cross, it forms one of the oldest parts of London and fronts the River Thames to the north...

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London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

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It is a thirty-one storey structure 111 metres (364 ft) high and was completed in 1972. It was designed by the renowned architect Sir Richard Seifert
Richard Seifert
Reubin Seifert - normally known as Richard Seifert was a British architect, best known for designing the Centrepoint tower and Tower 42 , once the tallest building in the City of London...

 and built by John Laing Construction Limited. There are plans for a complete recladding of the building's exterior in the near future. Several floors will also be added, increasing its height to around 127 metres (417 ft). New shops and offices will also be built around its base.

The tower was the headquarters of IPC Media
IPC Media
IPC Media , a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Inc., is a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year.- Origins :...

 (until Easter 2007 - when they moved locally to the Blue Fin building), one of the biggest publishing companies in Europe.

Throughout the latter part of the 1970s and early eighties, the tower became part of the mythos surrounding the British comic 2000 AD, being home to the 'Nerve Centre' of its alien editor, Tharg.
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