The Willis Faber & Dumas building is a revolutionary high-tech office

We continue or high-tech architecture series by looking at Foster Associates' Willis Faber & Dumas building, a revolutionary office block in Ipswich, which was completed in 1975.
Built as the headquarters of insurance company Willis Faber & Dumas, the three-storey block occupies its entire site and is wrapped in a glass curtain wall that reflects the surrounding buildings.
As with other early high-tech buildings, such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Willis Faber &