Tag: office building

• Trademark air vents in Wood Street

  This building is really fun to look at.  There are trademark air vents (to be compared with the Pompidou Centre) together with a colour scheme matching the Lloyds Register building twenty minutes walk away.  It is worth looking up into the lift shafts at night. 

  Paul Lincoln

  29 April 2011

  Modern buildings walk

  modernist architecture, office building, Richard Rogers

• Room with a view

  This is a view of a building not yet complete but likely to have an interesting impact on the City.  It is the new headquarters building for Rothschild’s Bank.  Designed by Rem Koolhaas, the top of the building which is a boardroom for the bank is placed on stilts above the main office block.  The […]

  Paul Lincoln

  11 February 2011

  Modern buildings walk

  office building, Rem Koolhaas

• A detail

  Discovered at the foot of 80 Wood Street and London Wall are these two baby air vents that replicate exactly the large vents along the side of the building.

  Paul Lincoln

  8 February 2011

  Modern buildings walk

  London Wall, office building, Richard Rogers