Goldman Sachs International

nbooker999

Has anyone here been to the building at Peterborough Court, Fleet Street?
If so what were your impressions?

"Yet another investment bank office" but quite small.

Nothing in the decor that is particularly standout and I've been a few times, including when they were have a parents and children day so the glass fountain had 'Welcome to the Chocolate Factory' stuck onto it, a clown was walking around and a Fisher Price red/yellow car was holding a door open.

On the trading floor, a kid about 4 years old was sitting on a terminal with tiger facepaint. Wonder what would have happened if he had randomly bashed buttons...

I generally think the Fleet Street location is pants though.

Nice conference room but to be fair, you won't use it much on the job... it has "UN style seating".

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Tortle

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One of the coolest buildings in London is the Lloyds building.
Here's a page with some cool pictures: http://www.emporis.com/en/il/pc/?id=110694&aid=8

I also really like the Citigroup building.

Reply 7

Citigroup Centre is so Canary Wharf (plastic/artifical pap)

Nice to see every so often, but stale to ~~live~~ work in.

I've generally been less than impressed by bank offices. They could learn a lot from other places which aren't so... stuffy. Google have a great London office for example (near Victoria). I just feel a lot of bank offices have been made someone who had some amount of their humanity sucked right out of them. Some places are a bit better. Morgan Stanley apply some wood to their trading floor on the panelling rather than having the bear plastic/whitewash concrete you see in most other places. They have a reasonably sparky canteen etc. DB is covered in modern art. Mind, you're losing the plot a bit if you pick a bank for the decorative environment.

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Klinsmannic

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President_Ben

Citigroup Centre is so Canary Wharf (plastic/artifical pap)

Nice to see every so often, but stale to ~~live~~ work in.
DB is covered in modern art. Mind, you're losing the plot a bit if you pick a bank for the decorative environment.

Yeah, Bear Stearns was pretty crap tbh. The spaces and corridors between rooms were better than the rooms themselves.

DB was much better, the big metal 'ball' in the foyet was intriguing, but they had a broschure specifically about their artwork- a bit ott methinks.

Reply 9

DB really love their modern art. Think they have the largest private collection of the stuff in the world... and from a more £££ perspective, it has turned out to be a reasonably decent (albeit, illiquid) investment too.

Reply 10

CityMonkey

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I love the entrance to the Lehman Brothers building in New York:

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Johan C

LBC213

I love the entrance to the Lehman Brothers building in New York:

Perhaps a bit flashy ?

Reply 12

Johan C

Perhaps a bit flashy ?

It's very New York. Which I don't like, though I can see why others might.

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kahler_potential

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plastic pap.... heh...
love that description of the Citigroup Centre.
I actually prefer the HSBC building.

Unfortunately I heard that the trading floor at Citi isn't very high up, so you don't even get the view of London (low flying planes apparently). Could be an spun yarn though.

Reply 14

It's on the 2 and 3 floors. Doesn't take you as long to get your desks. Can use the escalators instead of the lifts...

Reply 15

dsch

Goldman Sachs New York is a dump. It's the most important building in Lower Manhattan and you can't even see it from the touristy boat trip :biggrin:

Reply 16

the most important building in Lower Manhattan

NB: As if...

Reply 17

dsch

it's so important that there's another building in reserve, in case anything bad happens...

Reply 18

coughsyrup

it's so important that there's another building in reserve, in case anything bad happens...

Most reasonably large companies have that. And I really do mean most.

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dsch