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Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, 

OM, HonFREng (born 1 June 1935) is a British architectwhose company, Foster +


Partners, maintains an international design practice famous for high-tech
architecture.
He is the President of the Norman Foster Foundation. The Norman Foster
Foundation promotes interdisciplinary thinking and research to help new generations
of architects, designers and urbanists to anticipate the future. The foundation, which
opened in June 2017, is based in Madrid and operates globally.
He is one of Britain's most prolific architects of his generation. In 1999, he was
awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of
architecture.In 2009, Foster was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award in the Arts
category. In 1994, he received the AIA Gold Medal.

The Right Honourable


Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank
Kt OM
Born Norman Robert Foster
1 June 1935 (age 82)
Stockport, Cheshire, England
Nationality British
Occupation Architect
Awards Stirling Prize
Pritzker Architecture Prize
Minerva Medal
Prince of Asturias Award
HonFREng
Mérite européen Gold Medal
AIA Gold Medal

Website www.normanfosterfoundation.org
Practice Foster + Partners
Buildings 30 St Mary Axe, London
Willis Faber and Dumas
Headquarters, Ipswich
Wembley Stadium

Projects American Air Museum at the Imperial


War Museum Duxford
WORKS

The Expo MRT Station, part of the Mass Rapid Transit system in Singapore.


The Hearst Tower in New York City. Torre Cepsa in Madrid, Spain (2008).

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