Atlas House was built in 1910 as insurance offices, and its architects, the Leeds partnership Perkin & Bulmer, gave the corner of King Street and St Paul's Street to a single figure: Atlas, the Titan condemned to carry the heavens, here shouldering the globe above the entrance. It is about as blunt a piece of advertising as Edwardian commerce produced. An insurance company was selling the promise of carrying other people's weight, and here was the man who did it for a living. Four storeys and attics rise behind him, eleven bays wrapped round the corner, every floor dressed with pediments, but the eye goes to Atlas first, which was the point.