Hearst Tower (New York City)

Expo MRT Station, Mass Rapid Transit, Singapore.

View of 30 St Mary Axe from street level — London's "Gherkin".

A new dome for restored Reichstag, German parliament in 1999.

Willis Faber and Dumas Headquarters, Ipswich, was one of Foster's earliest commissions after founding Foster Associates.

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Foster was born in Manchester to a working class family. Leaving school at 16, he initially worked in Manchester's City Treasurer's office before National Service in the Royal Air Force. Once out of the Royal Air Force, he went to Manchester University's School of Architecture & City Planning in 1961. He won a fellowship to Yale University, where he earned his Master's degree. Manchester is a city in the United Kingdom, considered by most to be the countrys second city [1][2]. It is a centre of the arts, the media, higher education and big business. ... // National Service National Service in the 20th Century referred primarily to conscription for military service. ... Yale redirects here. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate or graduate course of one to three years in duration. ...

He co-founded Team 4 with Richard Rogers, whom he met at Yale, and in 1967 founded Foster Associates. He collaborated with Buckminster Fuller on several projects between 1971 and 1983; these projects were catalysts in the development of an environmentally sensitive approach to design. Today, Foster and Partners, together with its engineering collaborators, integrates complex computer systems with the most basic physical laws, such as convection, to create intelligent, efficient structures like the Swiss Re headquarters in London, whose complex facade lets in air for passive cooling and then vents it as it warms and rises. Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside (born 23 July 1933) is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs. ... 30 St Mary Axe, one of Londons most popular new buildings, towers above its neighbours. ... In the U.S. postage stamp commemorating Buckminster Fuller and his contributions to architecture and science, some of his inventions are visible. ... 30 St Mary Axe - at 180 m, Swiss Res London headquarters is the 6th tallest building in London Swiss Re is the worlds second-largest reinsurance company (after Munich Re/ Münchener Rück), and the worlds largest life and health reinsurer. ...

Knighted in 1990 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1997, he was created a life peer in 1999, with the title of Lord Foster of Thames Bank. Foster is known by the British tabloid newspapers as "Lord Wobbly", due to structural problems with his Millennium Bridge. He has been criticised for his treatment of an arts charity, the Couper Collection, located next door to his London offices and home. See article UK Times article and UK Observer article. The silver Anglia knight, commissioned as a trophy in 1850, intended to represent the Black Prince. ... For other Orders see Order of Merit (disambiguation). ... In the United Kingdom, Life Peers are appointed members of the Peerage whose titles may not be inherited (those whose titles are inheritable are known as hereditary peers). ... The London Millennium Footbridge is a pedestrian-only steel suspension bridge crossing the River Thames in London between the existing Southwark Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge, linking Bankside with the City. ... The Couper Collection is a floating art museum and registered charity, on converted barges, which is permanently moored on the banks of the Thames in Battersea, London. ...

Norman Foster is the second UK architect to win the Stirling Prize twice: once for the American Hangar at the Imperial War Museum Duxford in 1998 and again for 30 St Mary Axe in 2004. In consideration of his whole portfolio, Foster was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1999. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers, and winner of the Minerva Medal, the Society's highest award. 30 St Mary Axe (London, England). ... American Air Museum Duxford General Dynamics F-111 A B-52 up close The Imperial War Museum Duxford in Cambridgeshire, commonly referred to simply as Duxford, houses the Imperial War Museums aircraft collection, as well as having a large collection of tanks, military and naval vehicles. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Looking south down Bishopsgate, one of the main roads leading through Londons financial district. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually to honor a living architect by the Hyatt Foundation, run by the Pritzker family. ... A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. ... Logo of the Chartered Society of Designers The Chartered Society of Designers (CSD) is the worlds largest and oldest chartered body of professional designers. ...

His designs were originally a stylish, machine influenced high-tech but he has moved away from this to a more sublime, more acceptable sharp-edged modernity.

He is known to some in the UK – pejoratively – as an über- or superstar-architect, the accusation being that certain architects are given preferential status based on their fame. Foster's critics dismiss his ideas as a dystopian (rather than utopian) dream. In Lord Foster: Stormin' Norman, Andrew Walker claims that Foster's critics "grumble about his fetishistic use of steel, aluminium and glass. His very ubiquity is seen as a threat." [1] The word über ( ) comes from the German language. ...

Recently one of Norman Foster's senior project architects, Ken Shuttleworth, who was responsible for some of Foster's best known buildings such as the GLA and "The Gherkin", left to set up the architectural practice "Make". [2] Some people believe that Shuttleworth was the driving force behind Foster in recent years. Ken Shuttleworth (born 1954 in Birmingham, England) is a celebrated British architect. ... Looking south down Bishopsgate, one of the main roads leading through Londons financial district. ...

Projects

He has had an extremely prolific career including:

• Russia Tower, Moscow (2007-2011)
• Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, Dallas, Texas, due to open in the 2009/2010 season
• 40 luxury apartments, St. Moritz, Switzerland (2005)
• Spinningfield Square, Manchester (2005-2010)
• EnCana "New Building Project" — Calgary, Alberta, Canada (2010?)
• Beijing Capital International Airport International Terminal, China (2007)
• New Elephant House, Copenhagen Zoo (2007)

• Hearst Tower (New York City), (2006) http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/
• Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Canada
• Library of the Philological Faculty at Free University of Berlin, Germany (2005)
• National Police Memorial — The Mall, London (2005)
• Millau Viaduct — Gorge du Tarn, France (1993 – 2005)
• McLaren Technology Centre - Headquarters of the McLaren Group (2004)
• The Sage Gateshead (2004)
• 30 St Mary Axe — Swiss Re headquarters (1997 – 2004 )
• Universiti Teknologi Petronas main campus, Malaysia (2003)
• The Troika – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2004 – 2009)
• J Sainsbury headquarters, Holborn Circus, London (2001)
• La Poterie metro station, Rennes, France (2001)
• Expo MRT Station at Singapore (2001)
• Greater London Authority Building — London City Hall (2000)
• Reichstag redevelopment in Berlin (1999)
• Millennium Bridge in London (1996 – 2000 )
• Redevelopment of the Great Court of the British Museum (1999)
• Carré d'Art, Nîmes, France (1984 – 1993 )
• Torre de Collserola, in Barcelona (1992)
• Lionel Robbins Library renovation, Brititish Library of Political and Economic Science London School of Economics (1993 – 2001 )
• Metro of Bilbao, Spain(1988 – 1995 ) &(1992 – 2004)
• Terminal building at Stansted Airport(1981 – 1991 )
• HSBC headquarters building(1979 – 1986 ) and the Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong, Chek Lap Kok (1992 – 1998)
• Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt, Germany (1991 – 1997 )
• Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at University of East Anglia in Norwich(1974 – 1978 )
• Willis Faber and Dumas Headquarters, Ipswich, England (1971 – 1975 )
• IBM Pilot Head Office, Cosham, England (1970 – 1971)

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See also

• Foster and Partners
• Richard Rogers
• Ken Shuttleworth

30 St Mary Axe, one of Londons most popular new buildings, towers above its neighbours. ... Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside (born 23 July 1933) is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs. ... Ken Shuttleworth (born 1954 in Birmingham, England) is a celebrated British architect. ...

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