Appendices
Appendix ICAVs and urban design
Technological change can be uncomfortably rapid and can force new thinking. When our firm was designing the new building for Lloyd’s, in the City of London, I had to interview the 300 syndicates about their future needs. At the time, only one underwriter out of nearly 3,000 had any form of advanced technology at their desk – a small cathode-ray tube monitor on which green dot matrix sentences would glow.
On asking the syndicates about their IT computing needs, the message I received was: What is IT and what are computers? They would certainly not be necessary. The activities are broadly the same today, but data that used to take days ...
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