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1972 - 1975

Willis Faber Dumas headquarters

author

Norman Foster

description

  1. An example of silk-tech – a style of glossy shine in the architecture of late modernism.
  2. The core of the structure is formed by office and additional premises;
  3. A membrane shell made of dark tinted glass smoothly envelops the core;
  4. Mirror surface, beaten: the external environment, reflected in it, dematerializes the structure;
  5. The roof is operated.
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