British architect, born 1935, leader of high-tech architecture and of one of the largest design practices in the world: the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank headquarters, the glass dome of the rebuilt Reichstag in Berlin, the Millau Viaduct and the Gherkin at 30 St Mary Axe, London. He received the Pritzker Prize in 1999.
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Awarded the AIA Gold Medal in 1994.
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Foster is a Royal Gold Medal recipient and RIBA Fellow; the institute is the professional body of his own national practice.
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Awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1983.
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Foster earned a master of architecture degree at Yale in 1962 on a Fulbright scholarship.
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Foster and Fuller collaborated from 1968 to 1983 on projects that shaped Foster's environmentally sensitive approach to design.
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Works Designed
Designed by Norman Foster, widely known as The Gherkin.
Designed by Norman Foster.
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Foster and Partners led design as the airport terminal's architects; Norman Foster is the firm's founder and principal.
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Designed by Norman Foster.
Foster and Partners restoration and glass dome of 1999, not the original 1894 building by Paul Wallot.
Designed by Norman Foster, an early landmark of High-Tech architecture.
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1999 laureate, Pritzker Architecture Prize official laureate list (pritzkerprize.com/laureates)
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Wikimedia FoundationNorman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, Peerage section
Baron Foster of Thames Bank, of Reddish in the County of Greater Manchester
- Influenced By: Buckminster Fuller
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- Associated With: Yale School of Architecture
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- Associated With: Royal Institute of British Architects
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The building was designed by architects Foster and Partners with structural engineer AKT II, and constructed by Sir Robert McAlpine at a cost of £1bn.
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The detailed design for the airport terminal was awarded to a consortium led by Mott Connell (the Hong Kong office of UK consultant Mott MacDonald) with BAA PLC as the specialist designers for airport-related aspects, Foster and Partners as the architects, and Ove Arup as the specialist structural designers for the roof.
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