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138 Houndsditch is an address on Houndsditch in London where the St Botolph Building is located. The commercial office, opened in January 2011, is designed by Grimshaw Architects. It is one of a number of landmark buildings recently delivered or in development to the East of the Gherkin in the City of London ward of Aldgate, which together with the wards of Langbourn, Cornhill and Lime Street forms the centre of the UK insurance industry. Two of the three main tenants are businesses with a substantial insurance broking component, which are therefore reliant on close proximity to the Lloyd's building and the globally-significant London market in insurance contracts that focuses on Lloyd's of London. ==History== The previous building occupying the majority of the site was a modern municipal-style 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Will Fox photography )〕 office block owned by the Post Office / British Telecom with some mixed-use street level retail units including banks, a betting shop and a Thai Restaurant.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Extract from the planning register )〕 Planning permission was initially granted in 1999. Developers Minerva went on to submit two further plans for the site, including one for what would have been the City's first million+ square foot skyscraper, also designed by Grimshaw Architects.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=designbuild-network.com )〕 This tower was rejected, and the original permissions revived in 2006,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SkyScraperNews.com )〕 with some revisions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St Botolph Building」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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