Norman Foster + Partners
Norman Foster
Norman Foster was born in Manchester in 1935. After graduating from Manchester University School of Architecture and City Planning in 1961 he won a Henry Fellowship to Yale University, where he gained a Master’s Degree in Architecture.
He is the founder and chairman of Foster and Partners. Founded in London in 1967, it is now a worldwide practice, with project offices in more than twenty countries. Over the past four decades the company has been responsible for a strikingly wide range of work, from urban masterplans, public infrastructure, airports, civic and cultural buildings, offices and workplaces to private houses and product design
Free University, Berlin by Foster+ Partners
Since 2005 Berlin has a new architectural landmark: the Philological Library of Freie Universitaet Berlin, designed by the renowned British architect Lord Norman Foster. The new Philological Library offers scholars and students modern working places: 650 wireless internet-accessible reading places on 5 levels including 100 Internet research terminals and 14 workstations
"Hearst Tower’s distinctive facetted silhouette rises dramatically above Joseph Urban’s existing six-storey Art Deco building, its main spatial event a vast internal plaza, occupying the entire shell of the historic base. Designed to consume significantly less energy than a conventional New York office building, it is a model of sustainable office design
