Norman Foster

Norman Foster, The Rt. Hon. The Lord Foster of Thames Bank, OM, Kt is a world renowned multi award winning architect. He is well known for his modern designs of steel and glass such as 30 St Mary Axe (the Gherkin).

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. If you weren't an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

Foster graduated in 1961 and won the Henry Fellowship to Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut - where he met Richard Rogers who would later become his business partner.

He is one of the most prolific British architects of the last fifty years with prestigious projects around the globe including the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich (1978), Kuala Lumpur’s Troika Towers (2010), Frankfurt’s Commerzbank, Berlin's Reichstag (1999), London Stansted Airport (1990), Hong Kong International Airport (1998), the Millau Viaduct in Southern France (2004), London’s City Hall (2002) and Millennium Bridge (2000) and the futuristic and visionary Apple Park in Curpertino (2018).

It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless. I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long haul: all the endless auditing and things like that.

Foster's enormous contribution to the world of Architecture was recognised in 1990 when he was knighted, he was appointed to the Order of Merit (OM) in 1997 and in 1999 he was elevated to the peerage.

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