Norman Foster

And the public spaces bringing in an artist

to create water, benches.

That was also double duty, the systems approach, providing security.

But it wasn't an ugly bollard.

You didn't know it was providing security.

It was also bringing people together.

then the arcade is an opportunity to introduce shops and so on.

That is working with the Bloomberg philosophy of encouraging the neighborhood to benefit from this private entity coming into the community rather than it being an island and killing off the traders.

It's encouraging local traders.

Now, everything I've described

then is working to the benefit of the interior of the building.

And the facades are starting to be able to breathe and pull lots of fresh air into the building.

So it's making the building a healthier building.

But it's also on the exterior, not another glass box.

It's a combination of bronze and the local stone, local stone.

the stone of the adjoining buildings.

So it's working environmentally in terms of sustainability, it's reducing energy, it's creating a healthier building for the occupants.

And then because it's deep and low, it's not pushing into the sky.

So it is reverential to the historic buildings around it of the same mass,

but at the same time, it's creating horizontality.