• 113 — John Soane 3 — The Bank of England

  • Apr 29 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
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113 — John Soane 3 — The Bank of England

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  • In the third episode of our ongoing series on John Soane, we discussed his magnum opus, and one of the most entrancing lost buildings ever: The Bank of England. This vast administrative complex signalled the transformation of London into the capital of a modern imperial state, but by the 1930s, after just a century of its existence, the bank had outgrown Soane's intricate and weighty toplit classicism and the whole thing was demolished. We attempt here to imagine and reconstruct what it was actually like, why it was like that, and how Soane achieved it.

    See the images we discussed on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/FmY1bFPv-oo

    Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts.

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