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    The Lloyd's of London building is located in the City of London financial district. It was designed by Richard Rogers and Partners and completed in 1986 to provide office space for Lloyd's, one of the world's largest insurance brokers. The most distinctive aspect of its design is that the building's services like pipes, ducts, and elevators are on the exterior, rather than inside a central core, freeing up interior space. The building consists of three towers surrounding a glass-roofed central atrium.

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    The Lloyd's of London building is located in the City of London financial district. It was designed by Richard Rogers and Partners and completed in 1986 to provide office space for Lloyd's, one of the world's largest insurance brokers. The most distinctive aspect of its design is that the building's services like pipes, ducts, and elevators are on the exterior, rather than inside a central core, freeing up interior space. The building consists of three towers surrounding a glass-roofed central atrium.

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    The Lloyd's of London building is located in the City of London financial district. It was designed by Richard Rogers and Partners and completed in 1986 to provide office space for Lloyd's, one of the world's largest insurance brokers. The most distinctive aspect of its design is that the building's services like pipes, ducts, and elevators are on the exterior, rather than inside a central core, freeing up interior space. The building consists of three towers surrounding a glass-roofed central atrium.

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    Famous Building

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    The Lloyd's of London building is located in the City of London financial district. It was designed by Richard Rogers and Partners and completed in 1986 to provide office space for Lloyd's, one of the world's largest insurance brokers. The most distinctive aspect of its design is that the building's services like pipes, ducts, and elevators are on the exterior, rather than inside a central core, freeing up interior space. The building consists of three towers surrounding a glass-roofed central atrium.

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                  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

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