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In the interactive you will meet Sir Roger Foster and get to know his building for the Wills, Faber and Dumas Headquarters in Ipswich. The secrets of Sir Terry Farrell's MI6 Building in London will be revealed, and Sir Richard Rogers will show you around his Senedd, the Welsh Assembly building in Cardiff.
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It's a pretty cool idea to give three possibility of buildings ! Interesant ! Great animation and it's a nice work !
Thibault Lecointre - 3 August 2017 7:29pm
It's a pretty cool idea to give three possibility of buildings ! Interesant ! Great animation and it's a nice work !
But, a small but, I was slightly disappointed that the engineers who contributed so much to, for example, the Centre Pompidou & the Honkers & Shankers in Hong Kong, might not have existed for all the mention they received.
May I hope that a future series will look at the work of some of the engineers who made so many of these buildings stand up, and work?