Editing Lloyd's building (section)

==History==
The first Lloyd's building (address 12 [[Leadenhall Street]]) had been built on this site in 1928 to the design of Sir [[Edwin Cooper (architect)|Edwin Cooper]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.archiseek.com/2013/lloyds-leadenhall-st-london/ |title=1922 – Old Lloyd's Building, Leadenhall Street |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= 19 June 2013|website=archiseek.com |access-date=9 March 2021 }}</ref> In 1958, due to expansion of the market, a new building was constructed across the road at 51 Lime Street (now the site of the [[Willis Building (London)|Willis Building]]). Lloyd's now occupied the Heysham Building and the Cooper Building.

By the 1970s Lloyd's had again outgrown these two buildings and proposed to extend the Cooper Building. In 1978, the corporation ran an architectural competition which attracted designs from practices such as [[Foster + Partners|Foster Associates]], [[Arup Group|Arup]] and [[Ioeh Ming Pei]].<ref>{{cite web |title=English Heritage Listing Information |page=2 |url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/content/imported-docs/k-o/lloyds-list-entry.pdf |work=English Heritage |date=19 December 2011 |access-date=6 February 2013}}</ref> Lloyd's commissioned [[Richard Rogers]] to redevelop the site, and the original 1928 building on the western corner of Lime and Leadenhall Streets was demolished to make way for the present one, which was officially opened by Queen [[Elizabeth II]] on 18 November 1986. The 1928 building's entrance at 12 Leadenhall Street was preserved and forms a rather [[Facadism|incongruous attachment]] to the 1986 structure. Demolition of the 1958 building commenced in 2004 to make way for the 26-storey Willis Building.

The building was previously owned by [[Dublin]] based real estate firm Shelbourne Development Group, who purchased it in 2004 from a German investment bank.<ref>{{cite news |date=10 January 2004 |title=Lloyd's Tower Purchased |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/10/business/world-business-briefing-europe-britain-lloyd-s-tower-purchased.html |access-date=14 July 2013 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> In July 2013 it was sold to the Chinese company [[Ping An Insurance]] in a £260 million deal.<ref>{{cite news |date=8 July 2013 |title=Lloyd's building sold to Chinese insurance group in £260m deal |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jul/08/lloyds-building-sold-chinese-insurance-ping-an |access-date=14 July 2013 |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London}}</ref>

In 2008 the [[Twentieth Century Society]] called for the building to be [[listed building|Grade I listed]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Thompson |first=Max |date=24 January 2008 |title=Call for 'urgent' Grade-I listing of Lloyd's building |url=https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/call-for-urgent-grade-i-listing-of-lloyds-building/536377.article |access-date=26 August 2016 |work=Architects' Journal}}</ref> and in 2011 it was granted this status.<ref name="Londonist-2011">{{Cite web |date=2011-12-19 |title=Lloyd's Building Gets Grade I Listed Status |url=https://londonist.com/2011/12/lloyds-building-gets-grade-i-listed-status |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=Londonist}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Waite |first=Richard |date=19 December 2011 |title=Rogers' Lloyd's becomes youngest Grade-I listed building |url=https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/rogers-lloyds-becomes-youngest-grade-i-listed-building/8624035.article |access-date=26 August 2016 |work=Architects' Journal}}</ref>