City Slickers
Goldman Sachs Website What do you picture when you think of the City of London - The Bank of England with its colonnaded fascade? Men in pinstriped suits and bowler hats? Traders frantically signaling instructions across the floor of the Stock Exchange? Or, perhaps computer screens animated by a dizzying array of charts and indexes? The Blackstone Group Website The persistence of such images is probably due to cinema and news media as much as to the city itself. Indeed, our most enduring impressions of the city are probably drawn from its history, rather than its present; crucially, from a time pre 1995. It was around this time that the city effectively reinvented itself to address the new economy created by dot.coms. So, what is the contemporary face of the city? What do city institutions ask for when they work with designers? Below are the websites of three city heavy weights. Feel free to speculate on what the briefs might have been. KBC Peel Hunt Website To kick start the debate,...