Groundscraper (1975?)

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GROUNDSCRAPER--9,830 Google hits, 3 Google Groups hits
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A "groundscraper" is not a "skyscraper." Does it come from London,  1975?
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_ArchitectureWeek - Design - One Raffles Link -  2001.0502_ 
(http://www.architectureweek.com/2001/0502/design_1-2.html) 
The new building is  called a "groundscraper" in a city of skyscrapers. Photo:
John  Marshall. ArchWeek Photo. The building section demonstrates open-span  
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_Hongkong Land > Press Room > Hongkong Land  Limited_ 
(http://hkland.com/press_room/hlhl_20021119.html) 
... One Raffles Link, a first of its  kind "groundscraper" development in 
Singapore,
involves  construction and design approaches that are considered pioneering 
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_Wiley::Groundscrapers + Subscrapers of Hamzah &  Yeang_ 
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Notes on  Groundscraper + Subscraper. Enterprise 4 Building. Tech-Linx  ...
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_SkyscraperCity Forums - #Proposed: Hotel Adelaide  Redevelopment_ 
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... stores. The project is a  joint-venture with the hotel's Singapore-based
owners. ...  Apartments. It's a groundscraper, 8-9 levels high. ... 
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_URA -  Press Release_ (http://www.ura.gov.sg/pr/text/pr03-27.html) 
... Duxton Plain Park through  Pearl’s Hill and York Hill to Singapore River. 
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and  "groundscraper", or garden-nestled housing hugging the hilly grounds.  
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_Norman Foster at Gabion_ 
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...  500-strong, £28m turnover practice, based in London, Singapore and 
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Willis Faber Dumas, Ipswich, 1975   
It is also exactly 25 years since he completed his most famous early  
building, the curving black-glass headquarters of the insurance company Willis  Faber 
Dumas (now Willis Corroon) in Ipswich: at about the same time as his  
one-time partner Richard Rogers was, with Renzo Piano, completing the Pompidou  
Centre in Paris. Willis Faber is now Grade 1 listed, and rightly. With its  amoebic 
shape, huge open floors, grand sequence of escalators and rooftop  garden, it 
was revolutionary, the first "groundscraper". At the time,  Foster was 
working with colleagues who went on to become independently  successful: Michael 
Hopkins, Jan Kaplicky of Future Systems, Ian Ritchie among  them. The standard 
criticism of Foster is that, these days, he is doing nothing  so mould-breaking. 
He's ready for that one.