Tag: Richard Rogers
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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.
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Lloyds Register
This is a view from underneath one of the external lifts in the Lloyds Register Building. Like the Lloyds Insurance Building, it shares an architect – Richard Rogers. Unlike the Lloyds Building, this is very easy to view at a close distance. The lifts make a satisfyingly clunky noise as they move up and down and […]
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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.
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Freezing outside the Lloyds Building
A freezing night but one of the most spectacular and exciting moments of the week. Here is the Lloyds Building next to its recently-completed neighbour the Wills Building. This is the centre of new building in the city. Lloyds is now more than twenty-five years old and it overlooks the site of two new buildings: […]