The Lloyds Insurance Building, London, Lloyds Building , Lime Street EC3M 7HA,at dusk in the evening
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Tony Smith / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
2ABY96MFile size:
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5472 x 3648 px | 46.3 x 30.9 cm | 18.2 x 12.2 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
26 November 2019Location:
Lloyds Building,Lime Street,City Of London,London,England,UK, EC3M 7HAMore information:
Continuing our high-tech architecture series, we take a look at the inside-out Lloyd's building in London, Richard Rogers' second major building following Centre Pompidou. One of the 1980s most recognisable pieces of architecture, the Lloyd's building demonstrates many of the key traits of the high-tech architecture style that emerged in the UK in the late 1960s. The building, which was built as the headquarters of Lloyd's of London – one of the world's largest insurance firms – is distinguished by its radical inside-out aesthetic that sees all its building services banished to its exterior in order to create uninterrupted spaces inside. This is similar to the Centre Pompidou, which Rogers completed with Renzo Piano in the late 1970s, and has equally uncluttered and highly flexible internal spaces.