Norman Foster

\nNorman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank OM Kt (born June 1, 1935) is a British architect. Foster was born in Manchester and educated at the University of Manchester and at Yale University. He worked for the visionary Buckminster Fuller before meeting with Richard Rogers, creating Team 4 and in 1967 Foster Associates. His designs were originally a stylish, machine influenced high-tech but he has moved away from this to a blander, more acceptable sharp-edged modernity. He has had a extremely successful career including:\n* Sainsbury's Centre for Visual Arts at University of East Anglia in Norwich\n* Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt\n* HSBC Tower and the Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong\n* Terminal building at Stansted Airport\n* metro of Bilbao, Spain\n* Carre d'Art, Nîmes, France (1993)\n* Redevelopment of the Great Court of the British Museum (1999)\n* Millennium Bridge in London (1999)\n* Glass dome for the Reichstag redevelopment in Berlin (1999)\n* Greater London Authority Building - London City Hall (2000)\n* La Poterie metro station, Rennes, France (2001)\n* 30 St Mary Axe - Swiss Re headquarters (2003) He was knighted in 1990 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1997. In 1999 he was created a life peer.\n

External Links

\n* http://www.fosterandpartners.com/\n* http://www.30stmaryaxe.com/ Foster, Norman \n\n