- •070209 "Режиссура театрализованных постановок и праздников",
- •071301 "Народное художественное творчество"
- •Contents
- •Предисловие
- •Defining London
- •Geography and climate
- •Districts
- •Annotations
- •Comprehension Check Exercises
- •V. Do you remember?
- •Annotations
- •Comprehension Check Exercises
- •7. London's first … put small countryside towns within easy reach of the city.
- •8. Between 1855 and 1889, the Metropolitan Board of Works oversaw infrastructure … .
- •9. The Blitz and other bombing by the German Luftwaffe during World War II … large tracts of housing and other buildings across London.
- •10. Integration of the new immigrants was not always … .
- •5. Architectural unity has become part of London's character.
- •V. Do you remember?
- •The City
- •Annotations
- •Comprehension Check Exercises
- •3. The present system is widely seen as undemocratic.
- •V. Do you remember?
- •West End of London
- •Location
- •Activities
- •Districts in the West End
- •Famous streets in the West End
- •2. The West End was long favoured by the poor as a place of residence.
- •V. Do you remember?
- •East End of London
- •Annotations
- •Comprehension Check Exercises
- •2. The term East End was first applied to the districts immediately to the … of the medieval walled City of London.
- •3. A shabby man from Paddington, St Marylebone or Battersea might pass muster as … .
- •4. Throughout history the area has absorbed waves of immigrants.
- •V. Do you remember?
- •Architecture in London
- •Built environment
- •Annotations
- •Comprehension Check Exercises
- •I. Fill in the blank with the correct word:
- •V. Do you remember?
- •3. What is One Canada Square? The British Museum
- •Annotations
- •Gallery
- •Other monuments to Nelson
- •Nelson's Four Victories
- •Lloyd's building
- •Annotations
- •Trafalgar Square
- •Overview
- •The fourth plinth
- •Pigeons
- •Redevelopment
- •Politics and Economy
- •Annotations
- •St Paul's Cathedral
- •The previous cathedrals Pre-Norman
- •'Old St Paul's'
- •Wren's St Paul's Design and construction
- •[Edit] Description
- •[Edit] Post-Wren history
- •[Edit] Memorials
- •[Edit] Modern-day
- •[Edit] In popular culture
- •Annotations
- •Coronations
- •Burials and Memorials
- •[Edit] North Transept
- •[Edit] South Transept
- •[Edit] Cloisters
- •[Edit] North Choir Aisle
- •[Edit] Chapel of St Paul
- •[Edit] Commemorated
- •Education
- •Annotations
- •Annotations
- •Annotations Comprehension Check Exercises
- •I. Fill in the blank with the correct word:
- •V. Do you remember?
- •Inspiration
Gallery
Close up on Nelson’s Column |
East face of the plinth, depicting the Battle of Cape St Vincent |
North side of the plinth, depicting the Death of Nelson, by J. E. Carew |
Sir Edwin Landseer's Lions guarding the outside diagonals of Nelson's Column |
Other monuments to Nelson
In the Bull Ring, Birmingham, England, there is a Grade II* listed bronze statue of Nelson by Richard Westmacott, dating from 1809.
In Dublin, Ireland, Nelson's Pillar, was erected in 1808 and blown up by a rogue IRA group in 1966.
In Edinburgh, Scotland, Nelson's Monument is a tower commemorating Admiral Horatio Nelson, on top of Calton Hill
In Montreal, Quebec, is a Nelson column at Place Jacques-Cartier erected by the British merchants of the city in 1808.
A column, topped with a decorative urn, in the Castle Green, Hereford. A statue was planned in place of the urn but insufficient money was raised. BBC site with photograph.
The Britannia Monument, Great Yarmouth, England (1819) is a 144 feet high doric column design.
Nelson's Four Victories
Battle of Trafalgar
Battle of the Nile
Battle of Copenhagen
Battle of Cape St. Vincent
Lloyd's building
One of the stainless-steel clad stair cases, and ducts on the outside of the Lloyd's building
The Lloyd's building is the home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London, and is located in Lime Street, in the City of London.
It was designed by architect Richard Rogers and built over eight years from 1978 to 1986. Like the Pompidou Centre (designed by Renzo Piano and Rogers), the building was innovative in having its services such as staircases, lifts, electrical power conduits and water pipes on the outside, leaving a clean uncluttered space inside. The 12 glass lifts were the first of their kind in the UK.
The building consists of 3 main towers and 3 service towers around a central, rectangular space. Its focal point is the gigantic Underwriting Room on the ground floor, which houses the famous Lutine Bell. The Underwriting Room (often simply known as 'the Room') is overlooked by galleries, forming a 60-metre (200-foot)-high atrium lit naturally through a huge barrel-vaulted glass roof. The first four galleries open onto the atrium space, and are connected by escalators through the middle of the structure. (The higher floors are glassed-in, and can only be reached via the outside lifts.)
The 11th floor houses the Committee Room, an 18th century dining-room originally designed for the 2nd Earl of Shelburne by Robert Adam in 1763: it was transferred piece-by-piece from the previous (1958) Lloyd's building across the road.
The first (1928) Lloyd's building was demolished to make way for the present one. However, its main entrance at 12 Leadenhall Street was preserved, and forms a rather incongruous attachment to the 1986 structure.
The Lloyd's building height is approximately 76 meters (250 feet), and features 14 floors.[1] Each floor can rapidly and easily be altered with the addition or removal of partitions and walls. The building is named after Edward Lloyd who founded a coffee shop on the site of the present building in 1688.
At present, the building is owned by Irish based real estate firm Shelbourne Developments, who purchased the building in 2004 from a German investment bank.[2]
It has been featured in a number of films such as Entrapment and also in an advert for a car, the Rover 800.
Lloyd's Building, City of London |
Lloyd’s Building (with the blue cranes), London |
Queue of people for Open House London on 17 September 2005 |
Lloyd's Building, City of London |