From the archives: Trouble at the Lloyd’s building, 1986

By Tom Lowe2024-11-29T07:00:00

Building reports mixed reactions from occupants and doubts about the building’s future prospects in a piece published shortly after the opening of the Richard Rogers-designed landmark

The Lloyd’s building has surprisingly few imitators, given its fame. Although widely considered among the most important architectural designs of the 20th century, its inside-out approach never really took off. Completed by Bovis in the spring of 1986, it was designed by Richard Rogers as the follow-up to his previous experiment in the Bowellist style, the Pompidou Centre, which had opened in Paris nine years earlier.

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