lloyd's of london builiding

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demographics
• It is located on the former
site of East India House in
Lime Street, in London's
main financial district, the
City of London                           In
2011, twenty-five years after
its completion in 1986 the
building received Grade
I listing
• Construction started 1978
• Completed 1986 
purpose
•  It was designed by the architect
company Richard Rogers and Partners
• The Lloyd's building has provided a home for one of the
largest insurance brokers in the world. It’s seen as
helping establish London as a centre of financial services
in the 1980s. The structure quickly became a city
landmark and symbol of London both in the UK and
overseas.
Architecure of liyods builiding
• Most striking thing about its appearance is that the guts
of the building, the staircases, elevators, and all the pipes
and ducts that carry power, water, heating, ventilation,
etc are on the exterior of the building rather than the
more usual central core of a structure
• The building consists of three towers each with their
own service tower, which surround a central 60-metren
high atrium that houses the main
Underwriting Room and is naturally lit by a barrel-
vaulted glass roof that took its inspiration from Joseph
Paxman’s Crystal Palace. The building features
12 glass lifts that were the first of their kind in the UK
• As with the Centre Pompidou the services were located
externally, freeing up the interior of the building so that it
could remain flexible, each floor capable of being altered
by the addition or removal of partitions. This style was
dubbed ‘bowellism’, based on the idea that the greatest
amount of free floor space should be maintained.
• Criss-crossing the atrium are a series
of escalators intended to create a sense
of the circulation between the floors The cranes were left
on top of the building, much the same as for
old cathedrals that were intended to be modified
and built to an ever grander scale