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When a Billionaire Who Wants to be an Architect Works with an Architect Who Wants to be a Billionaire!

“I think this building is more futuristic than the latest Blade Runner movie,” said London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan at the ribbon cutting ceremony for Bloomberg LP’s new European Headquarters in the British capital. After 30 years in London the media agency is bringing staff from its four campuses into one huge and futuristic office building, a building that took nearly 10 years to build. “Some people say that the reason it took us almost a decade to build this is that we had a billionaire who wanted to be an architect working with an architect who wanted to be a billionaire,” joked New York’s former Mayor and founder of Bloomberg LP, Michael Bloomberg. Located on the site of a former Roman temple, the building lies between the Bank of England and St Paul’s Cathedral, it responds to its historic context, yet is uniquely of its place and time. It is a true exemplar of sustainable […]

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