FOSTER AND PARTNERS

London City Hall at night

'Foster and Partners' is a leading firm of architects in the United Kingdom. The practice is strongly associated with its founder, Norman Foster, now Lord Foster, and has constructed many high profile glass and steel, high-tech buildings around the world. In particular they are known for their design of airport buildings.
Established by Norman Foster as 'Foster Associates' in 1967 shortly after leaving Team 4, the firm was renamed 'Foster and Partners' in the 1990s to more accurately reflect the influence of the other lead architects.
The tessellated glass roof of the British Museum's Great Court redevelopment has a complex curved form, approximating the top half of a doughnut anchored by the circular Reading Room at the centre of the court.


Contents
Selected projects
Awards
See also
External links

Selected projects


Major projects, by year of completion are:
The new Wembley Stadium in London: perhaps one of the most controversial projects that Foster and Partners have been involved in. The design was unveiled in 1999, with an iconic "tiara" crowning the main stadia as its most distinguishable feature, but numerous delays meant the stadium did not open until 2007.

30 St Mary Axe, one of London's most popular new buildings, towers above its neighbours.


★ Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK (1978)

★ HSBC Tower (1986)

★ Terminal building at Stansted Airport, UK (1991)

★ Faculty of Law, Cambridge (1995)

★ Metro of Bilbao, Spain (1995) — Line 2 (2004)

★ American Air Museum, Imperial War Museum Duxford, UK (1997) — Stirling Prize

★ Clyde Auditorium, part of the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre complex, Glasgow (1997)

★ Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt, Germany (1997)

★ Hong Kong International Airport, ''Chek Lap Kok'' in Hong Kong (1998)

★ Canary Wharf Underground Station, London, UK (1999)

★ ''Reichstag'' redevelopment in Berlin (1999)

★ Millennium Bridge in London (1999/2002)

★ Redevelopment of the Great Court of the British Museum (2000)

★ London City Hall (2002)

★ 30 St Mary Axe, London — Swiss Re headquarters (2004) — Stirling Prize

★ Millau Viaduct, the highest road bridge in the world (2004)

★ The Sage Gateshead, UK (2004)

★ Moor House, 120 London Wall, London (2005)

★ Wembley Stadium reconstruction (2007)

★ Beijing Airport — under construction

★ Heathrow East Terminal - projected 2012

★ Tanaka Business School

★ New Supreme Court Building, Singapore (2005)

★ Palace of Peace and Reconciliation in Astana, Kazakhstan — (September 2006)

★ Hearst Tower, New York City (June 2006)

★ Jameson House in Vancouver — (not yet on site)

★ The Bow, Calgary - (projected 2010)

★ 200 Greenwich Street, New York - (projected 2011)

★ Croydon Tower, Croydon, London — (projected 2012)

Awards


RIBA Stirling Prize
1998 Imperial War Museum Duxford, Duxford
2004 Swiss Re Building, 30 St Mary Axe, ''The Gherkin''

See also



★ Norman Foster

★ Ken Shuttleworth and MAKE

★ Richard Rogers

External links



★ Foster and Partners Official website

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