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THE FIRST WELL

There once was a small kingdom around a lake. One very hot summer, it did

not rain and the lake dried up. People grew anxious and went to the King. “It

has not rained for so long. Our fields are barren!” said the farmers. “There

are no fish to catch. How shall we earn a living?” asked the fishermen. “Save

us from disaster, good King,” urged the women, as their children cried with

thirst. 

The King sent his four generals in all directions to look for water. The first

general went east, towards the sunrise; the second went south, to the dust

and heat; the third went west, where the sun sets; and the fourth followed

the North Star. 

They searched day and night, night and day; high and low they searched

everywhere, but in vain. Three of the generals returned, empty-handed. But

the general who had gone north was determined not to fail his King. At last,

he reached a cold mountain village. 

As he sat at the foot of the mountain, an old woman came by and sat next

to him. The general pointed at the horizon and said, “I belong to a beautiful

kingdom, where it has not rained for a whole year. Can you help me find

water?”

The woman motioned the general to follow her up the mountain and into a

cave. “We have no water in our country either,” she said. Then, pointing to

the icicles in the cave, she continued: “We call this ice. Take some, and your

kingdom will never go thirsty again.” The general broke off a huge piece,

loaded it onto his horse-cart and rushed back home. 

By the time he reached the court, the enormous icicle had melted into a small

lump of ice. Nobody in the court had ever seen ice, so everybody gazed at it

with wonder. “This must be a water-seed!” one of the ministers exclaimed

suddenly. The King ordered the ‘water-seed’ to be sowed immediately.

While the farmers dug a hole, the lump dwindled in the sun. They swiftly

placed the seed in the hole, but before they could cover it up, it had vanished.

The farmers there grew confused and worried. They dug deeper and deeper

into the earth, all night long, looking for the mysterious seed. 

At the break of dawn, the King found the farmers fast asleep around a hole.

Curious, he peeped in and cried out in amazement: “Wake up, my worthy

men – the water-seed has sprouted! There’s water in the hole!” This is how

the first well was created.

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AMAZING STUCTURE

LLOYD'S BUILDING

Hi guys, I want to tell you about one of amazing structure in this world. I am sure that you will be stunned to see this stucture. That Amazing stucture is LLOYD'S BUILDING!!! Let me tell you about Lloyd's building, REMEMBER I never visit Lloyd's building, so, many infomation about Lloyd's building that I will give to you are from internet. Before I tell you about Lloyd's building, I want to say thankyou to Internet , THANKYOU INTERNET <3<3,<3.

The Lloyd's building (sometimes known as the Inside-Out Building) is the home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London. It is located on the former site of East India House in Lime Street, in London's main financial district, the City of London. The building is a leading example of radical Bowellism architecture in which the services for the building, such as ducts and lifts, are located on the exterior to maximise space in the interior.

Twenty-five years after completion in 1986, the building received Grade I listing in 2011; it was the youngest structure ever to obtain this status. It is said by English Heritage to be "universally recognised as one of the key buildings of the modern epoch."

The first Lloyd's building (address 12 Leadenhall Street) had been built on this site in 1928. In 1958, due to expansion of the market, a new building was constructed across the road at 51 Lime Street (now the site of the Willis Building). Lloyd's now occupied the Heysham Building and the Cooper Building.

By the 1970s Lloyd's had again outgrown these two buildings and proposed to extend the Cooper Building. In 1978, the corporation ran an architectural competition which attracted designs from practices such as Foster Associates, Arup and I.M. Pei. Lloyd's commissioned Richard Rogers to redevelop the site, and the original 1928 building on the western corner of Lime and Leadenhall Streets was demolished to make way for the present one which was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 18 November 1986. The 1928 building's entrance at 12 Leadenhall Street was preserved and forms a rather incongruous attachment to the 1986 structure. Demolition of the 1958 building commenced in 2004 to make way for the 26-storey Willis Building.

The current Lloyd's building (address 1 Lime Street) was designed by architect Richard Rogers and built between 1978 and 1986. Bovis was the management contractor. Like the Pompidou Centre in Paris (designed by Renzo Piano and Rogers), the building was innovative in having its services such as staircases, lifts, electrical power conduits and water pipes on the outside, leaving an uncluttered space inside. The 12 glass lifts were the first of their kind in the United Kingdom. Like the Pompidou Centre, the building was highly influenced by the work of Archigram in the 1950s and 1960s.

The building consists of three main towers and three service towers around a central, rectangular space. Its core is the large Underwriting Room on the ground floor, which houses the Lutine Bell within the Rostrum. The Underwriting Room (often simply called "the Room") is overlooked by galleries, forming a 60 metres (197 ft) high atrium lit naturally through a huge barrel-vaulted glass roof. The first four galleries open onto the atrium space, and are connected by escalators through the middle of the structure. The higher floors are glassed in and can only be reached via the exterior lifts.

The 11th floor houses the Committee Room, an 18th-century dining room designed for the 2nd Earl of Shelburne by Robert Adam in 1763; it was transferred piece by piece from the previous (1958) Lloyd's building across the road at 51 Lime Street.

The Lloyd's building is 88 metres (289 ft) to the roof, with 14 floors. On top of each service core stand the cleaning cranes, increasing the overall height to 95.10 metres (312 ft). Modular in plan, each floor can be altered by addition or removal of partitions and walls.

In 2008 the Twentieth Century Society called for the building to be Grade I listedand in 2011 it was granted this status. 

The building was previously owned by Dublin-based real estate firm Shelbourne Development Group, who purchased it in 2004 from a German investment bank. In July 2013 it was sold to the Chinese company Ping An Insurance in a £260 million deal. 

That’s all obout Lloyd's building , and thanks a lot to internet that have helped me tell about Lloyd's building. I am sorry if I make mistake of using english words, Thankyou for reading

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