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In front of the Norman church of St. Helen’s Bishopsgate, the parish of William Shakespeare who frequented it, today dominated by imposing skyscrapers, stands a very modern building: the headquarters of Aviva.
It is the heart of the City of London, where all the insurance companies are concentrated. Sandwiched between the iconic “Cucumber”, the Gerkhin, the suppository-shaped palace of the Swiss Re, and the futuristic “Grattugia”, headquarters of the broker Aon, in the less showy building on the square, Aviva …