Lloyd's Building

I bring architecture students here on their first London visit. It's the building that explains what the High-Tech movement was trying to argue. It's also just extraordinary to look at.

Richard Rogers' 1986 inside-out building. The services — lifts, pipes, ducts — are on the outside. From Lime Street it reads as both diagram and spectacle. One of the most important buildings in the city.

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