Title & Author:

Genesis of the New Lloyd's Underwriting Room / [presented by] Richard Rogers.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1979.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (28 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Richard Rogers -- Lloyd's Existing Underwriting Room -- Strategic Sketches -- Drawings Showing Planning Organisation -- Axonometric Drawings Showing Planning Organisation -- Drawing Of The Future Underwriting Room -- Short Section -- Drawings Showing 'Served' & 'Servant' Spaces -- Sketch Showing 'Served' & 'Servant' Spaces -- Sketch Elevation -- London's Law Courts In The Strand -- Sketch Looking Down Leadenhall Street, London -- Plan Of Proposed Underwriting Room -- Typical Floor Plan Above The Underwriting Room -- Lower Ground Floor Plan -- Elevation To Leadenhall Street -- East Elevation -- West Elevation -- Axonometric View Of New Building -- Chareau House In Paris Showing The Glass Skin Technology Proposed -- Glass Blocks Considered For The Skin Of The Lloyd's Building -- South Elevation Of Working Model -- Working Model Seen From North & Leadenhall Street -- Foot Of Working Model At Corner Of Lime Street/Leadenhall Street.

Summary:

It was fitting that Lloyd's, the world's leading international insurance market, in 1979 appointed one of the world's leading architects, Richard Rogers, to redesign their premises in the heart of the City of London. Lloyds was expanding fast and needed more space. Rogers proposed to replace their building on the west side of Lime Street with a new Underwriting Room, a great top-lit atrium encircled by galleries. When completed, around the mid-1980s, the building became the architecturally most exciting in London's City. Rogers first set up in practice in 1962 with Norman and Wendy Foster. In 1967 they split up, and in due course Rogers linked with Renzo Piano with whom he won the international competition for the Centre Beaubourg (later Pompidou) in Paris. Now he is back in London practising as Richard Rogers & Partners.

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Industrial Great Britain.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture industrielle Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture, Industrial.
Architecture, Modern.
Great Britain.

Added entries:

Rogers, Richard, 1933-2021, narrator.