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Willis Faber and Dumas Building

Not long after founding Foster Associates in , Norman Foster and his partner wife Wendy Cheesman began to design a "garden in the sky" for the ordinary office worker of Ipswich, England. The global insurance firm Willis Faber & Dumas, Ltd. commissioned the young firm to create what Foster describes as a "low-rise, with a free-form plan." The dark glass siding "curves in response to the irregular medieval street pattern, flowing to the edges of its site like a pancake in a pan." Completed in , the innovative building now known simply as the Willis Building in Ipswich — in , Foster built a much different Willis Building in London — was ahead of its time with a park-like green roof for the enjoyment of the office worker occupants.

" And here, the first thing you can see is that this building, the roof is a very warm kind of overcoat blanket, a kind of insulating garden, which is also about the celebration of public space. In other words, for this community, they have this garden in the sky. So the humanistic ideal is very, very strong in all this workAnd nature is part of the generator, the driver for this building. And symbolically, the colors of the interior are green and yellow

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List of works by Norman Foster

StartedCompletedProjectLocationCountryNotes Reliance Controls factorySwindonUnited Kingdomjoint project with Richard Rogers in Team 4^[1]Fred. Olsen Lines terminalLondon DocklandsUnited KingdomIBM Pilot Head OfficeCosham, PortsmouthUnited KingdomWillis Faber and Dumas HeadquartersIpswichUnited KingdomBeanhill Housing EstateMilton KeynesUnited Kingdom^[2]Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East AngliaNorwichUnited Kingdom^[3]Renault CentreSwindonUnited KingdomHSBC Main BuildingHong KongHong KongTerminal building at London Stansted AirportLondonUnited KingdomHeadquarters of ITN, Grays Inn RoadLondonUnited KingdomTorre de CollserolaBarcelonaSpainCarré d'ArtNîmesFranceKings Norton Library, Cranfield UniversityCranfieldUnited KingdomLycée Albert CamusFréjusFranceJoslyn Art MuseumOmaha, NEUnited StatesMetro of BilbaoBilbaoSpainFaculty of Law, CambridgeCambridgeUnited KingdomNational Sea Life CentreBirminghamUnited KingdomThe Clyde Auditorium, part of the Scottish Exhibition and Confer

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