I love the medieval streetplan still in use, even if they are now 8 lane highways. Many were originally drawn out by the meandering path of a cow to its water hole.
That's the Lloyd's Building, an oil refinery-esque piece of architecture for The City. Its inside-out, with all the elevators, service ducts and vents on the outside, and every screw itself individually designed:
the exterior elevators and stairwells
The inside is just as industrial
but also surprising
all in all not bad for a building designed in the 1970s
If ever you go to London you HAVE to visit this place at night:
In one of those pictures it looks like they were saving the facades of some of those buildings they were taking down. Glad to see they are saving something from those buildings because what makes London so unique is its low rise historic streets. Anyways, those pics are amazing and I think I have seen some of those in National Geographic before, especially the top one, I know Ive seen that photo somewhere before.
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