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52 Lime Street: The Scalpel | KPF | YouTubeToText
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one of the building types that has been
most identified with con Peterson Fox is
the urban high-rise commercial office
building our aspiration from the
earliest days was to find ways for these
buildings to be able to create a more
social interaction with the cities with
that they inhabited tall building and
its role within the city uh is like the
role of an individual at a cocktail
party to have a good cocktail party
the individuals can't stand isolated
from each other without generating some
form of conversation right tall
buildings need to find a way to respond
to their context the site is in the
heart of the insurance District which is
surrounded by Lloyds of London it's the
sort of primary Insurance building that
the world knows the Willis building as
well on the other side of leev Hall
Street you've got the cheese grater and
the girkin but the site that we've got
is sort of critical mass where Insurance
buildings come together just to the
north of the building there is a there
is a listed church and some lower fads
to the to the west and to the South
there are larger buildings and so the
building folds like an origami paper
sculpture or a sort of crystalline form
in order to have shoulders and ribs that
refer to the surroundings Our intention
was always to speak to all of the
surrounding buildings but also create
open space for them to all exist
separately so whilst the buildings are
very very close together there's always
this space to allow each one to breathe
in its own
right so there's a dynamic view the
local authorities consider when they're
considering tall buildings in the city
how the Dome of St Paul's is viewed
along about a mile stretch of Fleet
Street what the scalpel does is actually
lean into and hides behind the Dome
informing the overall massing and design
of this
building something of this scale and
with such a pure shape needed a simple
material palette on the outside the idea
was to create a really tort skin with a
very defined profile from long distance
and close
up so we spent a lot of time considering
how best to integrate the Woodford
stones into the building they represent
air sea land and fire it's what
insurance people insured against and
that's really why they were installed
originally on the top of the stair
Towers to the original 1950s Lloyds
building they're part of the rich
history of insurance on the site they've
informed the way in which our ground
floor works there's a sculptural stair
that's behind the main wall in the
reception conceived as a monolithic
stone sculpture in itself but we
designed it so that everything looks
like it's heun out of one block the idea
was to convey a feeling of solidity
inside the building as a foil to this
kind of gossam or
exterior this language emerged as a
result of the nature of this contact
that's what we always try to do [Music]
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