A Suffolk Eye

By CroPage

Oh crap!

The Willis building in Ipswich is one of Norman Foster's earliest commissions (more details here) and is a remarkable 3-D black mirror of the buildings around it.

Owing to the habit of Ipswich town planners pulling down the most beautiful old parts of town and replacing them with roads and shopping centres, the Willis building does not reflect anything very wonderful in many of the glass panels that make up its walls.

However
, on this side we're lucky: it reflects the medieval church of St Nicholas. Which is where Cardinal Wolsey was baptised over five hundred years ago.

And it reflects me.

Both of which beautiful sights are slightly spoiled by the large white smears of what the seagull left down the side

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