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This article lacks something vitally important, who is the architect? Some dates on when it submitted a planning application, planning approval, ground breaking etc. would be useful too. Information on what happened before construction such as changes to design (if any) and problems with the planning could be added. These would all make this article a lot better -
Erebus55518:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)reply
Oh, its
Foster and Partners. One of Lord Foster's earliest projects was the original
Willis Faber Dumas building in Ipswich. The information is already in the article, but you have to look very closely to find it - just click on the first image in the gallery. Keep clicking through until you get a full size version then scroll over to the information sign on the side of the building. The name of the architects are mentioned on that sign ;-) It would probably be a good idea to mention it more explicitly. -- 18:52, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
Aha. Thanks for that. Foster and Partners are great architects. I will try and get other information on what I said previously to add to the article. -
Erebus55518:54, 6 September 2006 (UTC)reply
Main photo
Nice pic, but I think a view from St Helens Square is needed as well, to show the proper "stepped" shape of the building,
i.e. a side view.
Wjfox200512:30, 28 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Nickname
The Willis Building is popularly known as the Prawn, though this has apparently not found favour with the architects;
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Willis Building (London) →
51 Lime Street — Request move back to previous name. The building shares its name with a building in Ipswich which creates ambiguity as people looking for the Ipswich building are redirected here. The Willis Building should redirect to a disambiguation page to prevent redirecting to the wrong building.--
Lucy-marie (
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16:10, 22 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Couldn't care less one way or the other, but I would point out that 51 Lime Street is not exactly a unique name either. There's one in Liverpool, Nottingham, two in Sheffield, and doubtless dozens (hundreds?, thousands?) of other locations including two more in Central London. It's unlikely that many of these will be noteworthy enough to warrant an article, but there is a potentially massive disambiguation problem here.
Emeraude (
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21:54, 23 December 2007 (UTC)reply
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