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The Technological Revolution When the new headquarters building for Lloyds of London was completed in 1986 the public reaction was understandably confused. Instead of the traditional image for a city institution of a classical temple standing for permanence and solidity, the insurers – not a profession famed for taking unnecessary risks – had chosen to erect themselves a gigantic piece of pulsating machinery. The associations were clear for all to see: the exposed structure like an oil rig with its spars and platforms, the shiny metal stairs and toilet-pods all piled up like freight containers and clipped on to the outside, and the whole thing capped off with a small army of rooftop cranes – not there just to help build it but there to help rebuild it too, when the components wear out and new ones are swung in to take over. Despite the building’s improbable appearance, its architect, Sir Richard Rogers, presents his ideas as the most logical response to the demand for flexibility – as he himself has described in a book called Architecture: A Modern View: If one can access and change short-life parts of a building, its total lifespan can be extended. Lloyds is clearly divided into a long-life central zone housing people and a short-life external zone containing technology.1 1 Richard Rogers, Architecture: A Modern View, Thames and Hudson, London, 1990 p53.
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