{"id":91494,"date":"2018-06-15T22:30:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T15:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-ipswich-suffolk-more-david-brent-than-steve-jobs\/"},"modified":"2018-06-15T23:03:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T16:03:12","slug":"lets-move-to-ipswich-suffolk-more-david-brent-than-steve-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-ipswich-suffolk-more-david-brent-than-steve-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Ipswich, Suffolk: 'More David Brent than Steve Jobs'"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nYou can \u2013 just about \u2013 find Ipswichness peeping out, in its burgeoning festival scene or the independent shops and 17th-century gablesWhat\u2019s going for it? Imagine the scene. Early 70s. Handlebar moustaches. Santana on the radio. California comes to Suffolk. OK, it\u2019s an insurance firm, not a Silicon Valley startup. But look at that office: straight outta San Fran. Almost mirror-glass walls. Cool. Rooftop cafe. Escalators. Acid colours. What? A built-in swimming pool?! The Willis building, built by Norman Foster in his late 30s, still looks as if the future hasn\u2019t quite caught up with it. Ipswich\u2019s future turned out more banal than bright.At least it\u2019s fairly prosperous. Small mercies. But the waterfront slick of office parks and Pizza Expresses is more David Brent than Steve Jobs. Look hard, though, and you can \u2013 just about \u2013 find Ipswichness peeping out, in its burgeoning festival scene, say, or the independent shops and 17th-century gables amid the Zizzis on St Nicholas Street. For a thousand years, this was a North Sea port up there with Hamburg and Antwerp. Who knows, one day it might be again. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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