Bloomberg HQ
On the Sunday of Open House weekend in London last month I was lucky enough to get tickets for a tour of Bloomberg's new headquarters designed by Foster + Partners. The building has only been open a year and is one of the most self sustaining buildings in the world.
This photo is of the main hypotrochoid stepped ramp that flows through the centre of the building. The tour included several areas but I thought this stunning piece of architecture was fantastic. Clad in bronze, the ramp is designed and proportioned as a place of meeting and connection, allowing staff to hold brief conversations with colleagues, whilst not impeding the flow of people.
We weren't allowed to use proper cameras, but we could use our mobile phones. The tour did move at quite a pace, so we didn't get much time for photos but I may post the others I have in a separate album at some point.
Occupying a full city block, the 3.2-acre site actually comprises two buildings united by bridges that span over a pedestrian arcade that reinstates Watling Street, an ancient Roman road that ran through the site. The building itself sits near the site of the ancient Walbrook River and when it was being built they discovered over 14,000 Roman artefacts.
The new Bloomberg building also returns the archaeological remains of the Roman Temple of Mithras to the site of their original discovery, Mithras was a Roman god worshipped by secretive Cult of Mithras, which practised between the 1st and 4th centuries. It really was incredible to see this ancient temple under a futuristic building such as this. If anyone fancies seeing it for themselves, the temple is open to the public and free to visit.
This was definitely a tour worth going on and I learnt so much from our guides. Not only about the building itself but about the Roman's who settled in this area and created Londinium.
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Bloomberg HQ
On the Sunday of Open House weekend in London last month I was lucky enough to get tickets for a tour of Bloomberg's new headquarters designed by Foster + Partners. The building has only been open a year and is one of the most self sustaining buildings in the world.
This photo is of the main hypotrochoid stepped ramp that flows through the centre of the building. The tour included several areas but I thought this stunning piece of architecture was fantastic. Clad in bronze, the ramp is designed and proportioned as a place of meeting and connection, allowing staff to hold brief conversations with colleagues, whilst not impeding the flow of people.
We weren't allowed to use proper cameras, but we could use our mobile phones. The tour did move at quite a pace, so we didn't get much time for photos but I may post the others I have in a separate album at some point.
Occupying a full city block, the 3.2-acre site actually comprises two buildings united by bridges that span over a pedestrian arcade that reinstates Watling Street, an ancient Roman road that ran through the site. The building itself sits near the site of the ancient Walbrook River and when it was being built they discovered over 14,000 Roman artefacts.
The new Bloomberg building also returns the archaeological remains of the Roman Temple of Mithras to the site of their original discovery, Mithras was a Roman god worshipped by secretive Cult of Mithras, which practised between the 1st and 4th centuries. It really was incredible to see this ancient temple under a futuristic building such as this. If anyone fancies seeing it for themselves, the temple is open to the public and free to visit.
This was definitely a tour worth going on and I learnt so much from our guides. Not only about the building itself but about the Roman's who settled in this area and created Londinium.
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As much as I appreciated comments and feedback I would request no Awards or flashy gif comments, please. They will be deleted. Thank you.