London Underwriting Centre LUC and the Gherkin
30 St Mary Axe (formerly the Swiss Re Building, and informally also known as "the Gherkin") is a skyscraper in London's financial district, the City of London, completed in December 2003 and opened at the end of May 41 floors, the tower is 180 metres (591 ft) tall, and stands on the site of the former Baltic Exchange, which was extensively damaged in 1992 by the explosion of a bomb placed by the Provisional IRA. Situated in No. 3 Minster Court, the London Underwriting Centre (LUC) is intended to run in parallel with the Underwriting Room at Lloyd's of London, providing a facility for insurance company underwriters to meet brokers at a single venue (the Lloyd's building itself being only open to Lloyd's syndicate underwriters). The LUC specialises in international insurance and reinsurance,[9] and can be visited by up to 4,000 brokers each day.
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Location: London, City, East London, United Kingdom, Great Britain
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Keywords: architecture, buildings, business, centre, city, commerce, gherkin, landscape, luc, noon, place, structure, underwriting, urban, winter, work
