Bucklersbury House
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Bucklersbury House is an office block in the City of London, the HQ to Legal & General, an insurance company.
Bucklersbury House has long been considered an eyesore in the City. Pevsner’s guide to the City of London rates it “the largest and dullest of London’s 1950s office blocks” and its olive-green curtain walling has gained no charm or patina over the past half century.
It was the first postwar building in the City to abandon the street line, a great 14-storey slab running from Queen Victoria Street to Cannon Street, extended by repetitively designed spurs on either side.
The L-shaped setback from Queen Victoria Street gave little to the pedestrian. In place of the lively shops and sandwich bars across the street, Bucklersbury House offered little more than a single corporate entrance in a vast city block.[1]
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Davey, Jenny. "L&G floats plan for 'cloud building'", The Times, 2006-05-19. Retrieved on December 18, 2006.
