YY London (Former Reuters Building)

YY London at 30 South Colonnade in London is a redeveloped 1991 Kohn Pedersen Fox building in Canary Wharf that housed Reuters' famous 100-meter-long stock ticker before becoming Revolut's global headquarters. Originally built over the West India Docks, the structure was stripped to its frame and expanded by three floors, replacing its 1990s dark granite façade with Y-shaped glazed cladding.

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30 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London E14 5EP

Which news organization installed a 100-meter ticker at YY London at 30 South Colonnade?

Look at this building in front of you. Sleek, glassy, modern... It's called YY London now, but the story it holds stretches from carrier pigeons to cryptocurrency.......... This structure was originally designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and completed in nineteen ninety-one — one of the earliest buildings in Olympia and York's Canary Wharf development. And think about what stood here before. In nineteen thirty-six, a warehouse was built on these docks to handle fruits and vegetables from the Canary Islands. That was the original Canary Wharf. Bananas and rum... not bankers and traders.......... But the building's most famous chapter began in two thousand five. Reuters moved here from eighty-five Fleet Street, and as part of the relocation, architects installed a one hundred metre long ticker around the building to display news and stock prices — a news ticker and media board right in front of the Jubilee Line tube station entrance. That glowing orange ribbon of scrolling numbers became Iconic. Every morning, thousands of commuters would glance up and get the pulse of global markets before they even reached their desks.......... And here's what makes that ticker beautifully poetic. Reuters itself began not with fibre optics or satellites, but with... Birds. In eighteen fifty, Paul Julius Royter — originally named Israel Beer Yosaphat — set up an information service using a fleet of forty-five carrier pigeons to deliver news and stock prices between Brussels and Ahken. You see, the Prussian telegraph line ended in Ahken, and the Paris line started in Brussels, twenty miles away. Bridging that gap meant the ability to quickly transmit stock and commodity prices between Paris and Berlin — a huge opportunity. So Royter used pigeons to fly across that gap... faster than any horse or mail coach could manage.......... From pigeons... to telegraphs... to that famous glowing ticker on This building. And now? The original building was essentially built on stilts and sits over water — right above the old West India Docks, where sailing ships once unloaded Caribbean sugar and rum.......... The building's latest transformation is just as dramatic. The rebuild project involved stripping the building back to its structural frame, extending it upwards with three new floors, and rebuilding from the ground up. The name YY London comes from the Y-shaped cladding used on the building's new façade. The old dark, defensive granite façade has been replaced with a fully glazed system that gives an outward-looking, transparent, and welcoming presentation.......... And who moved in? Revoloot, the global fintech with over nine million UK customers, relocated its global headquarters here. The story is almost too perfect. Revoloot's remarkable journey began right here in Canary Wharf — in twenty fifteen, they started with just two desks at Level thirty-nine, the estate's tech incubator. Now they occupy four floors of this very building.......... So stand here for a moment and take it in. Beneath your feet... water from docks that once received sailing ships laden with Caribbean goods. Above you... a building that carried news on the wings of pigeons, then on glowing orange light, and now on the screens of forty million banking customers worldwide. That is Canary Wharf in a single address.

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