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								  |  | Willis Faber & Dumas Headquarters 
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								    								  Princes Street, Franciscan Way, Cromwell Square, Falcon Street 
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| ARCHITECTURE  |  | Buildings for offices and professional practises Offices |  | 
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| ARCHITECTURE  |  | Commercial buildings Bars, cafeterias Restaurants Sports buildings Gyms and swimming pools |  |   
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        | THE BUILDING IN CINEMA |  |  |  |  |  |   
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								    | How much does your building weigh, Mr. Foster? |  |  
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                                    | Norberto Lopez Amado, Carlos Carcas |  |  
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                                    | Norman Foster, Tony Hunt, George Weidenfeld, Richard Rogers, Bono, Deyan Sudjic, Paul Goldberger, Carl Abbott, Alain de Botton, Anish Kapoor, Richard Serra, Anthony Caro, Richard Long, Buckminster Fuller, Ben Cowd, Cai Guo-Qiang, Ricky Burdett, Spencer de Grey, David Nelson, Narinder Sagoo, Nigel Dancey, Loretta Law, Mouzhan Madidi, Stefan Behling, Jurgen Happ, Gerard Evenden |  |  
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                                    | Producer: Elena Ochoa 
 Executive Producer: Antonio Sanz
 
 Writer & Narrator: Deyan Sudjic
 
 Music: Joan Valent
 
 Director of Photography: Valentin Alvarez
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        | BIBILIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES |  |  |  |  |  |   
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                                    | Giuseppe Zampieri, "Foster in Gran Bretagna/Foster in Britain", Domus 825, aprile/april 2000, "Itinerario/Itinerary" 166 n. 2 (pp. 120-128) |  
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                                    | "Willis Faber & Dumas office building, Ipswich", L'architecture d'aujourd'hui 193, octobre/october 1977, pp. 27-30 |  
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                                    | "Ipswich centre. Foster Associates", Architectural Design 45 n. 7, july 1975, pp. 418-419 |  |  
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