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Lloyd's building : Richard Rogers Partnership / Kenneth Powell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Architecture in detail (London, England)Publication details: London : Phaidon Press, 1994.Description: 60 p. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 30 cmISBN:
  • 0714830062
  • 9780714830063
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 725.25094212
Summary: The Lloyd's Building is an icon of a heroic moment in modern architecture and a major architectural landmark in the City of London. Described by one observer as a 'mechanical cathedral', its 300-foot silver and glass structure makes a startling impact in its context of city office blocks, and epitomizes Richard Rogers' concern with total flexibility and technological advance. Referred to by Rogers as 'history conscious, energy-conscious, functional...' and 'more dynamic than Pompidou', it is a forerunner of the new office architecture of the 1980s and 1990s and a pioneer of 'Intelligent buildings'. In this monograph Kenneth Powell charts the process of collaboration, partnership and inspired patronage which resulted in the construction of Lloyd's, and describes Rogers' search for 'balance between permanence and transformation'. In an introductory essay, Patrick Heron offers a deliberately personal and passionate assessment of the building as a 'purely aesthetic, purely visual experience', and a challenge to the distinction between aesthetics and physical usefulness.
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Open Collection Open Collection FIRST CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FIRST CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Open Collection FCUC Library 720.942 POW 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00004324
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720.941 BAR 2000 Bartlett books of ideas / 720.941 NEW 1998 New urban environments : 720.942 DAV 1993 Hopkins : 720.942 POW 1994 Lloyd's building : 720.942 POW 2001 New London architecture / 720.942 SUM 1953 Architecture In Britain 1530-1830 720.9421 LON 2006 London :

Includes bibliographical references (p. 60).

The Lloyd's Building is an icon of a heroic moment in modern architecture and a major architectural landmark in the City of London. Described by one observer as a 'mechanical cathedral', its 300-foot silver and glass structure makes a startling impact in its context of city office blocks, and epitomizes Richard Rogers' concern with total flexibility and technological advance. Referred to by Rogers as 'history conscious, energy-conscious, functional...' and 'more dynamic than Pompidou', it is a forerunner of the new office architecture of the 1980s and 1990s and a pioneer of 'Intelligent buildings'. In this monograph Kenneth Powell charts the process of collaboration, partnership and inspired patronage which resulted in the construction of Lloyd's, and describes Rogers' search for 'balance between permanence and transformation'. In an introductory essay, Patrick Heron offers a deliberately personal and passionate assessment of the building as a 'purely aesthetic, purely visual experience', and a challenge to the distinction between aesthetics and physical usefulness.