Wonders of the architecture

The creations of Norman Foster

Norman Foster

Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, 

 (born 1 June 1935) is a British architect whose company maintains an international design practice. He is Britain's most prolific builder of landmark office buildings. In 2009 Foster was awarded the  Prince of Asturias Award  in the Arts category.

Biography Foster was born in Reddish, Stockport, England, to a working-class family. Leaving school at 16, he worked in the Manchester City Treasurer's office before joining   National Service  in the  Royal Air Forces. After he was discharged, in 1956 Foster attended the University of Manchester's School of Architecture and City Planning (graduating in 1961). He took an interest in the works of Frank Lloyd Wright,  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer. He won the Henry Fellowship to the Yale School of Architecture, where he met future business partner Richard Rogers and earned his Master's degree. He then traveled in America for a year, returning to the UK in 1963 where he set up an architectural practice as Team 4 with Rogers and the sisters Georgie and Wendy Cheesman. Georgie was the only one of the team that had passed her RIBA exams allowing them to set up in practice on their own. Team 4 quickly earned a reputation for high-tech industrial design.

The  Willis Faber and

Dumas Headquarters

The  Willis building  in  Ipswich, England (originally the  Willis Faber and Dumas Headquarters ) is one of the earliest buildings designed by Norman Foster  after establishing  Foster Associates. In 1991 the Willis building Became the youngest Building to be given the first place in graduating   list of building status in Britain

The  Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts 

The  Sainsbury Centre

for Visual Arts is an art gallery

and museum located on the  campus

 of the University of East Anglia,

  Norwich  in the  United Kingdom. It is

housed in one of the first major public

buildings to be designed by Norman Foster.

Commerzbank Tower, located in the city centre of  Frankfurt, Germany, is the tallest building in the European Union. The signal light on top of the tower gives the tower a total height of 300.1 metres (985 ft).

COMMERZBANK TOWER

The

Clyde

AuditoriumThe Clyde Auditorium, familiarly

known as "The Armadillo", iconic concert is an  avenue in Glasgow, Scotland.

The Millennium Bridge

The Millennium Bridge, officially known as the  London Millennium Footbridge, is a steel suspension bridge for pedestrians crossing the  River Thames  in  London, linking  Bank side with the  City. It is located between  South walk Bridge (downstream) and Black friars Railway Bridge(upstream).

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Wembley Stadium (often referred to simply as Wembley, or sometimes as the New Wembley, to differentiate it from the former stadium on the same site) is a football  stadium located in Wembley Park, in the London Borough of Brent, England, which opened in 2007 on the site of the previous 1923 structure. The 90,000 capacity venue is the second largest stadium in Europe, and serves as England's national stadium.

30 St Mary Axe

30 St Mary Axe, also known as the Gherkin and the Swiss Re Building, is a   skyscraper  in   London's  main financial district, the  City of London, completed in December 2003 and opened at the end of May 2004.  With 40 floors, the tower is 180 metres (591 ft) tall,  and stands on the former site of the Baltic Exchange building.

The Sage Gateshead 

The Sage Gateshead is a centre for musical education,

performances and conferences, located in

Gateshead on the south bank of the River Tyne,

in the north-east

of England.

It opened in 2004.

The McLaren Technology

Centre  The McLaren Technology Centre is the headquarters of the McLaren Group, located on site in Woking,  United Kingdom.

Hearst Tower 

Hearst Tower in New York City, New York islocated at 300 West  57th Street, 959 8th Avenue, near Columbus Circle  in    Midtown Manhattan. It is the world  Headquarters of the  Hearst Corporation,bringing together for the first time their numerous publications and communicationscompanies under one roof, Including among others Cosmopolitan,  Esquire, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, GoodHousekeeping, Seventeen, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

THE  WILLIS BUILDING

The Willis Building  at  51 Lime Street, is a large office tower in  London's main financialdistrict, the  City of London.

Beijing Capital International Airport

International   Airport  of Beijing, China.

The Palace of Peace and

Reconciliation 

The  Palace of Peace and Reconciliation   (also translated as the Pyramid of Peace and Accord) is a 77 m high building in Astana, the capital of                                                             Kazakhstan. The Pyramid was specially constructed to host the  Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions.

The Russia Tower  The Russia Tower  is a partially built "Super-tall skyscraper", in the  Moscow International Business Centre  ,  Russia. Construction began in September, 2007,and was planned to be completed in 2012.

DEUTSCHE BANK PLACE

Deutsche Bank Place  is a 240 m (790 ft)  skyscraper  in  Sydney,New South Wales,  Australia. It is located at 126  Phillip Street (corner of Hunter Street) in the north-eastern end of the  Central business district, across the road from  Chifley Tower. This building is the second-tallest Building in the world with fewer than 40 floors.

The Torre Caja Madrid 

The Torre Caja Madrid is a skyscraper located in the Cuatro Torres Business Area in Madrid, Spain. With a height of 250 m (820 ft) and 45 floors, it is the tallest of the four buildings in the Cuatro Torres Business Area complex, surpassing Torre de Cristal by less than a metre, and the tallest building in Spain.

The building was made safe against the elements and partially refurbished in the 1960s, but no attempt at full restoration was made until after the  reunification of Germany  on October 3, 1990, when it underwentreconstruction led by internationally well-knownarchitect   Norman Foster.After its completion in 1999, it became the meeting placeof the modern German parliament, the  Bundestag.

The  Bundestag

Crystal Island  Crystal Island is a proposed building project in  Moscow,  Russia that is currently planned to have around 2,500,000 square metres (27,000,000 square feet) of floor space and a height of 450 metres (1,476 ft) designed by  Norman Foster.   At these dimensions upon completion it would be the  largest structure (in floor space) on earth. The tent-like superstructure would rise to 450m, and form a breathable "second skin" and thermal buffer for the main building, shielding the interior spaces from Moscow’s weather. This second skin will be sealed in winter to minimise heat loss, and opened in the summer to naturally cool the interior. The building would be integrated into a new park, which would provide a range of activities throughout the year, with cross country skiing and ice skating in the winter.

Two World Trade Center

Two World Trade Center, also known by

its street address, 200 Greenwich Street, is a

new office building under construction as part

of the  World Trade Center 

reconstruction in New York City.  When

completed, the tower will be located on the east

side of Greenwich Street, across the street from

the original location of the Twin Towers that

were destroyed during the September 11, 2001

attacks.

South Beach is planned acommercial and residential complex to be located on Beach Road in the Downtown Core of Singapore. The new development will comprise offices, two hotels, shops and residences. The project includes the restoration of four conservation buildings - the former Non-Commissioned Officers' (NCO) Club building and part of the former Beach Road Camp. The complex is scheduled for completion in 2012.

South Beach

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