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Lloyds of London : Architecture

City Office Tower, England - design by Richard Rogers

Lloyds Building Address: One Lime Street, City of London 1979-84 Architect : Richard Rogers New photos, added 1 May 2013: photographs © Adrian Welch This major office building is the home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London. Like the Pompidou Centre - designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers - the building was innovative in having its services such as staircases, lifts, electrical power conduits and water pipes on the outside, leaving an uncluttered space inside. Unlike the Pompidou however the expressed services here aren't painted in primary colours but left in their natural state: the shiny metal of the pipes and especially the escape stairs give the building energy. The escape stairs ripple down the building like vertebrae. Also, like the Pompidou Centre, this building was highly influenced by the work of Archigram in the 1950s and 1960s, eg Plug-in City. The Lloyds Building has 3 main towers + 3 service towers around central, rectangular space. The focal point is the large Underwriting Room on the ground floor, which houses the famous Lutine Bell. The Underwriting Room has 60 m high atrium lit naturally through a huge barrel-vaulted glass roof. The first four floors around atrium are connected by escalators through the middle of the structure. Higher floors are glassed-in, and can only be reached via the outside lifts. The 12 glass lifts were the first of their kind in the UK. New photos from 12 Nov 2012: photographs © Adrian Welch New photo, from 1 Apr 2012: photo © Nick Weall Cost: £169m photos © Adrian Welch Photographs taken with Panasonic DMC-FX01 lumix camera; Leica lense: 2816x2112 pixels - original photos available upon request: info(at)e-architect.co.uk photographs © Nick Weall Lloyds of London - more photographs picture © Adrian Welch Lloyds Building London context - Leadenhall Market More images of the London Lloyds Building available picture © Adrian Welch Lloyds of London architect - Richard Rogers

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Lloyds Building context : 51 Lime Street

picture © Adrian Welch

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Richard Rogers building - scanned photo from 1997 by adrian welch:

picture © AW

Lloyds Fenchurch Street

photo © Nick Weall

Lloyds Shipping Registry

photo © Nick Weall

Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, Fenchurch St, London EC3
2002
Richard Rogers Partnership
£70m



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