40 Years oF Architecture: Styles that Defined the Decades

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HI-TECH In the mid-seventies, two remarkable company HQs were built. Grabbing all the headlines was Foster's Willis Faber building in Ipswich. Working with then partner Michael Hopkins, Foster reinvented the office building as a fluid all-glass envelope undulating round the site, enclosing a deep-plan building with central escalator atrium and a green roof. Today it is ...

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