Client meeting at Lloyd’s of London yesterday, that remarkable ‘inside-out’ building designed by Richard Rogers.
It’s all very corporate now, lacking the intimacy of previous rooms, but visits always bring back memories of working as a broker in the then ‘new Lloyd’s building’ in Lime Street – although it was already well past new when I worked there.
It’s interesting that the current building encompasses the site of the very first Lloyd’s building built specifically for the members in 1928
and that the 2008 Willis Building is on the site of the original ‘new’ building erected in 1958. Lloyd’s, the Willis building and the adjacent Gherkin largely occupied by Swiss Re form the centrepiece to the current city landscape.
