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'Post war offices' project aims to protect buildings that show history and its impact on English architecture. Post War Office Exteriors 1 Fisbury Avenue, London, 1982-4 According to Roger Bowdler, director of designations at English Heritage, the world’s biggest corporations including the bank UBS might be a real threat to the architecture of English Heritage that attempted to ‘urbanize’ the Broadgate complex in London with £850 million plan. The Big Bang of financial markets had a significant impact on office interiors, from old fashioned, classical style to an open-plan design, that indicates the change of working types - movement towards a flexible and remote working style . Also, the architecture of American commercial developments had been reflected in a post war office architecture. Important events in the world such as the oil crisis in 1973 had an impact on the appearance of the buildings across the UK. One of IBM head offices in Portsmouth that was b...