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Lloyds Building London Architecture
City Office Tower Building in England design by Richard Rogers architect, UK
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Revisiting key designs by this celebrated London-based architect, with Italian roots:
photo © Nick Weall
1 May 2013
Lloyds Building
Address: One Lime Street, City of London
Dates built: 1979-84
Architect : Richard Rogers
Lloyds of London, Atrium:
photograph © Janet Gill
Lloyds of London Building
This major office building is the home of the insurance institution – https://www.lloyds.com/.
Viewed from the south:
photograph © Nick Weall
Like the Pompidou Centre – designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers – the office 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.
photographs © Adrian Welch
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.
looking up:
photo © Nick Weall
The escape stairs ripple down the building like vertebrae.
photograph © Adrian Welch
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.
photo © Adrian Welch
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.
streetscape:
photograph © Nick Weall
Building construction Cost: £169m
photos © Adrian Welch
Photographs taken with Panasonic DMC-FX01 lumix camera; Leica lense: 2816×2112 pixels – original photos available upon request: info(at)e-architect.com
Lloyds of London building photos – more photographs
pictures © Adrian Welch
Lloyds Building London context – Leadenhall Market
More images of the London Lloyds Building available
Lloyds of London architect – Richard Rogers
Location: One Lime Street, City of London, England, UK
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Lloyds Building context : 51 Lime Street
picture © Adrian Welch
Other Key Contemporary Architecture close by:
60-70 St Mary Axe
Design: Foggo Associates Architects
image courtesy of the architects
60-70 St Mary Axe Building
Swiss Re Building
photo © Nick Weall
Tower 42
photo © Nick Weall
Willis Building
photo © Nick Weall
Bank of England
picture © AW
Buildings by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
White City Collaborative Care Centre, London, UK
image from architects
White City Collaborative Care Centre
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
Design: Richard Rogers Partnership
£70m
Buildings by Richard Rogers
Lloyds Building context : 122 Leadenhall Street – by the same architect
image : Cityscape
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