One Canada Square was completed. It is expected to become the third tallest building in the United Kingdom in 2019 upon completion of 22 Bishopsgate. One Canada Square never achieved the title as tallest skyscraper in the European Union because in accordance to the CTBUH method, a building has to be "completed" before its receives its title, with Messeturm in Frankfurt being completed in 1990. On 15 November 1992, the Provisional Irish Republican Army attempted to place a large improvised explosive device near the tower. The IRA had already worked out that to cause maximum damage, the bomb had to be placed under
1–2 Orme Square born there. When the 7th Earl divorced his wife, Marion Stein, in 1967 the house passed to her for her lifetime. When she married Liberal politician Jeremy Thorpe, it became their London home until Marion's death in March 2014. 1–2 Orme Square 1–2 Orme Square is a Grade II listed pair of houses in Orme Square, Bayswater, London, W2. The houses were built in the early-19th century and according to rate books No.1 was first occupied in 1826, along with No.3 to the east, followed by No.2 in 1827. There is an LCC plaque on number 1 to Sir Rowland