U.K. factory by Canadian architect won't be demolished

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U.K. factory by Canadian architect won't be demolished

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2006 / November 9

A British vacuum-cleaner mogul has agreed to save parts of a 150-year-old building designed by one of Canada's most important architects in an attempt to stave off rising protests from conservationists in Britain and Canada. James Dyson -- inventor of the cyclonic bagless vacuum cleaner and ranked by Forbes magazine last year as the 746th wealthiest man in the world -- unveiled new plans this week for the Dyson School of Innovation and Design in the historic English city of Bath. It's destined for the site of a now-defunct factory designed by Thomas Fuller who, after immigrating from Bath to Canada in 1857, eventually became chief architect to the Dominion of Canada.

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