We visited Lloyd's Building this weekend as it was open house day in London. It's a really interesting design. All the insides are on the outside.
Featured in Explore September 18th, 2006.
According to Wikipedia:
The Lloyd's building is the home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London, located in Lime Street in the City of London.
It was designed by architect Richard Rogers and built over eight years from 1978 to 1986. Like the Pompidou Centre (designed by Renzo Piano and Rogers), the building was innovative in having its services such as staircases, lifts, electrical power conduits and water pipes on the outside, leaving a clean uncluttered space inside. The 12 glass lifts were the first of their kind in the UK.
The building consists of 3 main towers and 3 service towers around a central, rectangular space. Its focal point is the gigantic Underwriting Room on the ground floor, which houses the famous Lutine Bell. The Underwriting Room (often simply known as 'the Room') is overlooked by galleries, forming a 60-metre (200-foot)-high atrium lit naturally through a huge barrel-vaulted glass roof. The first four galleries open onto the atrium space, and are connected by escalators through the middle of the structure. (The higher floors are glassed-in, and can only be reached via the outside lifts.)
The 11th floor houses the Committee Room, an 18th century dining-room originally designed for the 2nd Earl of Shelburne by Robert Adam in 1763: it was transferred piece-by-piece from the previous (1958) Lloyd's building across the road.
The first (1928) Lloyd's building was demolished to make way for the present one. However, its main entrance at 12 Leadenhall Street was preserved, and forms a rather incongruous attachment to the 1986 structure.
17 Декабрь 2009, 07:39 Hunnicutt i've never admired an escalator so much. cool picture.
18 Декабрь 2009, 03:07 atomicshark Very cool shot. Well done. (4 Aces)
18 Декабрь 2009, 17:21 cavenli2008 Wonderful view!4 aces
19 Декабрь 2009, 08:08 Piax
Lovely colors and nice composition.
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20 Декабрь 2009, 07:40 Luis F Franco
Wonderful light here. Very interesting place (4 Aces)--
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20 Декабрь 2009, 15:58 Philippe Sainte-Laudy
WOW!!! Wonderful view! great capture:)
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Thank you very much for your kind visit and
for the Fav;)
21 Декабрь 2009, 03:21 omphale44
Great composition and colors. Very
interesting building.
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22 Декабрь 2009, 02:56 shinichiro* Great view! Nice angle and composition, very nice shot!(123)
23 Декабрь 2009, 01:38 GalloIsGod fabulous! (4 Aces)
23 Декабрь 2009, 13:00 chimpaction Yow! Busy, Busy, Busy! Very nice.(4 Aces)
24 Декабрь 2009, 09:40 VRfoto Really nice! (4 Aces)
24 Декабрь 2009, 21:21 charlietyack thanks everyone!
24 Декабрь 2009, 22:01 Giuseppe Parisi
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majestic
25 Декабрь 2009, 01:52 birdyboo
What a great shot! I would love to go there
after seeing just this one. Well done!
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25 Декабрь 2009, 10:13 Penelope42 Wow !!! Great !!! (4 Aces)
26 Декабрь 2009, 06:36 dirtchick i saw the building from the outside on my trip to london two weeks ago and wished that i could have taken pictures from the inside. lucky you.(4 Aces)
26 Декабрь 2009, 20:14 Rachel boo
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wow, want to go there
27 Декабрь 2009, 17:17 geraintwn
great interior shot.... flickr poker
27 Декабрь 2009, 17:58 WakentheDead
Love the colour flickr poker
28 Декабрь 2009, 00:52 pierofix
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28 Декабрь 2009, 10:44 bekahpaige Great, great, great shot! A fav!
29 Декабрь 2009, 00:56 mjmourik wow what an interesting building! your composition really captures the movement and busy-ness of the place
29 Декабрь 2009, 12:50 ucumari Fantastic view! Beautiful photo.
30 Декабрь 2009, 01:20 misterpulcri Thanks for the interesting history!
30 Декабрь 2009, 22:57 jky2 Wow! We missed the last two open house events :-(Great picture
31 Декабрь 2009, 17:31 .Martin. fantatically captured escalators
01 Январь 2010, 13:45 pjfncs27 Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
02 Январь 2010, 08:10 kalmanzita
Oh Very Nice!! Very good job!
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03 Январь 2010, 05:19 hiroyuki.shima
Great interior shot of this outwardly well
known building, tfs.This photo is considered to be an outstanding
architecture shot and invited to The Pritzker Architecture Prize on flickr rating group, where you can rate other shots
and your shot will be rated too. Please read
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