UK - London - Striding businessmen in the City

Two businessmen walk through sunlight and towards shadows at Cornhill Exchange in the City of London, the capital's financial heart. In perfect sync, their steps are the same as they progress towards the darker corner of this covered portico, beneath tall pillars of classic neo-Romanesque architecture of the Royal Exchange building. At the top of Doric and Ionic columns with their ornate stonework, designed by Sir William Tite in 1842-1844 and opened in 1844 by Queen Victoria). It’s the third building of the kind erected on the same site. The first Exchange erected in 1564-70 by sir Thomas Gresham but was destroyed in the great fire of 1666. It’s successor, by Jarman, was also burned down in 1838. The present building is grade 1 listed and cost about £150,000.

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Two businessmen walk through sunlight and towards shadows at Cornhill Exchange in the City of London, the capital's financial heart. In perfect sync, their steps are the same as they progress towards the darker corner of this covered portico, beneath tall pillars of classic neo-Romanesque architecture of the Royal Exchange building. At the top of Doric and Ionic columns with their ornate stonework, designed by Sir William Tite in 1842-1844 and opened in 1844 by Queen Victoria). It’s the third building of the kind erected on the same site. The first Exchange erected in 1564-70 by sir Thomas Gresham but was destroyed in the great fire of 1666. It’s successor, by Jarman, was also burned down in 1838. The present building is grade 1 listed and cost about £150,000.