The Ned London commands the City’s financial district from Sir Edwin Lutyens’ 1924 Midland Bank headquarters—once the world’s most powerful bank. You’re staying inside a Grade I listed monument where 92 African verdite columns and a 25-tonne vault door document an era when global commerce answered to British authority. The £200 million restoration preserved walnut-paneled … Continue reading The Ned London: Sir Edwin Lutyens’ 1924 Bank Headquarters