Norman Foster

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:

• the Sainsbury's Centre for Visual Arts[?] at University of East Anglia in Norwich
• the Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt
• the HSBC tower[?] and the Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong
• Stansted Airport
• the metro of Bilbao, Spain
• the redevelopment of the Great Court of the British Museum (1999)
• the Greater London Authority HQ (2000)
• the proposed Swiss Re Headquarters in London
• the Millennium Bridge in London (1999)
• the Reichstag redevelopment in Berlin (1999)

He was knighted in 1990 and made a lord in 1999.