Peter Foggo

Peter Foggo (1930-1993) was a British architect, who headed up the team at Arup Associates, which designed the first phase of development at London's Broadgate in the 1980s.

Foggo joined the Ove Arup Building Group in 1959, and became a partner in the new Arup Associates in 1963.[1]

Foggo designed the Horizon Building, a cigarette-making factory on a 45-acre site at the Lenton Industrial Estate in Nottingham for Player's , which opened in 1972, and won the Financial Times Architecture Award for 1973. It is now owned by owned by Imperial Tobacco, and as it looks likely to be rejected for listing, will probably be demolished.[2][1]

In 1989, he established Peter Foggo Associates, renamed Foggo Associates after his death.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Bennetts, Rab (2015-12-16). "We must act fast to save Peter Foggo's legacy | Opinion | Building Design". Bdonline.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-12-07.
  2. ↑ Lowe, David (2015-09-09). "Dark cloud on the Horizon for England's last cigarette factory". Nottingham Post. Retrieved 2016-12-07.
  3. ↑ "Practice History of Foggo Associates". Foggo.com. Retrieved 2016-12-07.
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