Horizon Building

The Horizon Building was a former cigarette-making factory on a 45-acre site at the Lenton Industrial Estate in Nottingham, built for Player's, which was designed by the architect Peter Foggo for Arup Associates, opened in 1972, and won the Financial Times Architecture Award for 1973. It is now owned by Imperial Tobacco. In 2015 it looked likely to be rejected for listing, meaning that it would probably be demolished.[1][2] When the factory closed in March 2016 it was England's last remaining cigarette factory.[3]

The Horizon Building

Demolition was substantially complete by August 2019.[4]

According to the Twentieth Century Society, "what makes Horizon fearsome is its structure ... Horizon looks as good today as when it was built".[5]

References
  1. Lowe, David (9 September 2015). "Dark cloud on the Horizon for England's last cigarette factory". Nottingham Post. Archived from the original on 12 October 2015. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  2. Bennetts, Rab (16 December 2015). "We must act fast to save Peter Foggo's legacy | Opinion | Building Design". Bdonline.co.uk. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  3. "Rare cigarette paintings up for auction". BBC News. 28 May 2017. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  4. "Life inside John Player and Sons' Horizon Factory that produced billions of cigarettes a year". nottinghampost.com. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
  5. "The Horizon Building, Nottingham — The Twentieth Century Society". C20society.org.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2017.

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