Designed by Sir Owen Williams; completed 1938 Nottingham, England The factories designed by the architect and engineer Sir Owen Williams for Boots Pure Drugs Company in Nottingham are regarded as buildings of seminal importance in the history of modern architecture in Britain. Built between 1930 and 1938, the development consists of two large buildings designed for the manufacture of pharmaceutical products and a collection of smaller buildings including a fire station. All the buildings still exist, and the factories were refurbished in 1994. Owen Williams was born in 1890. He qualified as an engineer in 1911 and a year later joined the Trussed Concrete and Steel Company, for which he worked as an assistant engineer prior to establishing his own practice in 1918. Three years later, he was appointed consulting engineer to the British Empire Exhibition, a commission that included the design of several large exhibition buildings together with a swimming pool and a sports stadium for 125,...