biography
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Foster (of Thames Bank), Norman (Robert), Lord
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1935– )
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| biography:
| Architect, born in Manchester, Greater Manchester, NW England, UK. He studied at Manchester and Yale universities, and became a leading exponent of the technological approach to architecture, founding Foster Associates in 1967. He is responsible for many major buildings worldwide, including the Willis Faber & Dumas Building, Ipswich (1979), the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, University of East Anglia (1977), the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, Hong Kong (1979–85), the Third London Airport Terminal (1980), the Terminal Zone at Stansted Airport (1991), and the Century Tower, Tokyo (1991). Later projects include the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law (1996), Chek Lap Kok Airport, Hong Kong (1998), the Millennium Bridge in London (2000), and the New Wembley National Stadium (2003). He was knighted in 1990, and received a life peerage in 1999. He was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1999, and the Praemium Imperiale in 2002. |
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