The Thames Court was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox (International) PA in 1998, developed by Union Investment Real Estate and Markborough Properties.

Thames Court is one of a series of highly successful innovative workplace projects on which the partners of PLP have worked. In acclaiming it the Best National Urban Workplace (1999), the British Council for Offices commended the project for its “lively use of materials and detailing (including artwork) in circulation areas, avoiding the safe ‘institutional vanilla’ of so many comparable schemes” and as “a plan that responds well to the site, with maximum advantage taken of the river frontage, whilst at the other end of the site an effective buffer zone is placed between occupiers and the traffic noise on Upper Thames Street.” The project is the recipient of numerous design awards.

The key to the building is its section: a dynamic progression of spaces from north (the busy highway) to south (the tranquillity of the River Thames). On Upper Thames Street, a great stone portal frames the entrance elevation enclosing a glazed screen. The reception area forms an acoustic buffer zone to mediate the noise of the street. The office floors are beyond, arranged on five upper floors and one basement level.

The building is located next to Queenhithe dock – an area of historic importance dating back to the Roman and Medieval periods.

Its modern design provides 226,000 sq. ft of office accommodation across 5 floors, with a small retail unit occupied by Tossed to the front elevation.