Norfolk Corners

  Buried deep in the University of East Anglia (UEA) campus in Norwich, sits The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts , looking out across the Yare Valley. As well as hosting many art works of international renown, the building itself is a triumph of architectural design by none other than the young Norman Foster . It exhibits many of the features that have become his trademarks and anyone who has spent time in Stansted airport terminal building may experience a little deja vu when they set eyes on the arts centre for the first time. The Sainsbury Centre (which opened in 1978) served as a template for the later airport building. The exposed exoskeletal structure is one of the most notable similarities and has been much imitated, to the extent that its impact may have been dulled by familiarity. Stansted Airport Terminal (photo by Oxyman and used here under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License ) With great design comes