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Early life and education. Norman Robert Foster was born in 1935 in Reddish, two miles (3.2 km) north of Stockport, then a part of Lancashire. He was the only child of Robert and Lilian Foster (née Smith). The family moved to Levenshulme, near Manchester, where they lived in poverty.
May 28, 2024 · Foster’s first buildings to receive international acclaim were the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts (1978) in Norwich, England, a vast airy glass-and-metal-paneled shed, and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation headquarters (1986) in Hong Kong, a futuristic steel-and-glass office building with a stepped profile.
He received ‘Pritzker Architecture Prize’ in 1999, generally referred as ‘Nobel Prize’ in the field of architecture. He is also the recipient of the ‘Royal Gold Medal for Architecture’ (1983); the ‘Gold Medal of the French Academy of Architecture’ (1991); the ‘AIA Gold Medal’ (1994) and the ‘Prince of Asturias Award’ (2009) in Arts section.
Sir Norman Robert Foster is a world-renowned British architect and designer who has been at the forefront of sustainable and innovative design for over five decades. Foster honed his craft at the University of Manchester in England before embarking on further education in the United States to study at Yale in New Haven.
Oct 21, 2019 · Watch on. An exclusive clip of Norman Foster discussing his work on the Reichstag. ‘The first sketch I drew was of an aircraft; it was based on a model aircraft. It was heroic dimensions and I was sitting at the controls and piloting this craft…
Oct 5, 2021 · HTSI Architecture. Add to myFT. Norman Foster: ‘One’s always chasing the end of the rainbow’. The British architect on his plans for building the cleaner, greener cities of the future. © Weston...
Jul 3, 2019 · Pritzker Prize-winning architect Norman Foster (born June 1, 1935 in Manchester, England) is famous for futuristic designs — like Apple Headquarters in Cupertino, California — that explore technological shapes and social ideas.
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