Summary
It's hard to believe, but the famous Baltic Exchange, once the City's landmark building, is boxed up in a Canterbury warehouse. It cost Pounds 4 million to dismantle and is for sale for just Pounds 750,000. Angela Linforth offers ideas to a homebuyer FOR almost 100 years the old Baltic Exchange was one of the City's grandest and best-loved edifices. Built in 1903 by Smith and Wimble, it stood on the St Mary Axe site currently occupied by Lord Foster's "Gherkin". Its majestic capitals and pediment fronted some of the City's finest interiors, including a lavish domed trading floor of marble, mahogany and stained glass. But the IRA bomb of 1992 put paid to all that, leaving the building damaged and unstable.
For six years its future was debated. Initially the intention was to restore it fully. Then, in 1998, John Prescott controversially announced that it was to be dismantled. It is now in pieces in a barn outside Canterbury just waiting for an ambitious (and rich) buyer to put it back together again.See the full content of this document
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Picking Up the Pieces
The Exchange was Grade II listed and the pieces come with more than 5,000 survey photographs to help with its reconstruction. Given that it cost Pounds 4 million to dismantle, put in...
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