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Peter Foggo (1930-1993) was a British architect, who headed the team at
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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. Foggo designed the Horizon Building, a cigarette-making factory on a 45-acre site at the Lenton Industrial Estate in
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for
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, which opened in 1972, and won the Financial Times Architecture Award for 1973. It is now owned by
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, and having been granted immunity from listing, demolition began in December 2018. In 1989, he established Peter Foggo Associates, renamed Foggo Associates after his death.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Foggo, Peter 1930 births 1993 deaths Architects from London