Richard Rogers interview: On his radical Lloyd's building in London | Architecture | Dezeen

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What a legend!

[@TheOozaki]

Amazing building! Stood the test of time as well!

[@ingvarhallstrom2306]

I love it!

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Rip

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[@MrHistorian123]

The Lloyds building is probably the amongst the worst buildings ever designed. A complete carbuncle. Personally, I'd pull it down, but it gets a grade 1 listing from Historic England. It's only redeeming feature is that it has several bigger buildings around it that partially obscure it so you can't see it from far away. Rodgers obviously designed it after a bad trip on magic mushrooms. But it isn't London's worst building: 465 Caledonian Rd (that was a joke by Stephen George and Partners, surely) and that ridiculous Walkie Talkie building in Fenchurch St are even worse. Compare any of these with Norman Foster's utter masterpiece at 30 St Mary Axe (the Gherkin). No wonder it was the first building to win the Stirling Prize unanimously.

[@m.p.jallan2172]

I see complete continuity with this style and atonal music, both are inversions of their respective arts. A sort of parasitic critique of European art, being that the processes are a deliberate inversion or avoidance of an existing practical idea. Its Bauhaus, slavishly. A glass box with no obvious grand entrance, exposed columns and structural support, flat uncrowned roofs. Just like every new high school, shopping mall, sports centre and Asda store is built. Cheap.

[@dimitristsekeris1821]

@@m.p.jallan2172 I hope you are not talking about the Lloyd's Building, cause it has a massive barrel-vaulted entrance leading to an enormous symmetrically placed atrium that is topped by a glass barrel-vault. It has all the boldness of Gothic architecture amped several times higher. If this is what you call "Bauhaus", maybe you should research architecture a little better before making criticism.

[@dimitristsekeris1821]

I don't have a problem with people hating on a building I love, like the Lloyd's building, as long as they justify it somehow. This whole "carbuncle" mentality that sees architecture as a simple exterior form is probably contemporary architecture's biggest plight. That's why some people today are stuck with fake Classical or traditional stuff and cannot think utopically like Rogers.

[@MrHistorian123]

@@dimitristsekeris1821 If I see a person, I don't want to see their bowels, urinary tract and other internal organs displayed for all the world to see. Nor, when i see a building, do I want to see all the internal service systems displayed for all the world to see. Bowellism is a ridiculous architectural concept which may improve the internal workings of a building, but at the cost of making the external aspects a complete eyesore.

[@dimitristsekeris1821]

@@MrHistorian123 And I repeat. A building nowadays is mostly understood as a space composed of several material components, like walls, plains, stairs, elevators etc. NOT as a mere sculpture for you to judge only its exterior appearance based on your own "aesthetic" preferences. I find it fascinating that it has elevators and staircases climbing on its exterior.

[@Desuetus]

That's truly one of the ugliest buildings I've seen. It looks like an abandoned factory ready to be demolished. (a.k.a. club...?)