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    Norman Foster is a prominent British architect known for his sleek, modern buildings made of steel and glass. Some of his most acclaimed early works include the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, an art gallery and museum located at the University of East Anglia featuring vast airy spaces. Another influential work was the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation headquarters, a futuristic high-rise in Hong Kong with elements like elevators on the exterior to create open floor plans. Foster established himself as a leader in high-tech design and received numerous awards over his career, including being knighted in 1990 and made a life peer in 1999.

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    Norman Foster is a prominent British architect known for his sleek, modern buildings made of steel and glass. Some of his most acclaimed early works include the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, an art gallery and museum located at the University of East Anglia featuring vast airy spaces. Another influential work was the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation headquarters, a futuristic high-rise in Hong Kong with elements like elevators on the exterior to create open floor plans. Foster established himself as a leader in high-tech design and received numerous awards over his career, including being knighted in 1990 and made a life peer in 1999.

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    Norman Foster is a prominent British architect known for his sleek, modern buildings made of steel and glass. Some of his most acclaimed early works include the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, an art gallery and museum located at the University of East Anglia featuring vast airy spaces. Another influential work was the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation headquarters, a futuristic high-rise in Hong Kong with elements like elevators on the exterior to create open floor plans. Foster established himself as a leader in high-tech design and received numerous awards over his career, including being knighted in 1990 and made a life peer in 1999.

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    Norman Foster is a prominent British architect known for his sleek, modern buildings made of steel and glass. Some of his most acclaimed early works include the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, an art gallery and museum located at the University of East Anglia featuring vast airy spaces. Another influential work was the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation headquarters, a futuristic high-rise in Hong Kong with elements like elevators on the exterior to create open floor plans. Foster established himself as a leader in high-tech design and received numerous awards over his career, including being knighted in 1990 and made a life peer in 1999.

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    NORMAN FOSTER

    British Architect
    Norman Robert Foster

    Norman Foster, in full Lord Norman Foster of Thames Bank,


    original name in full Norman Robert Foster, (born June 1,
    1935, Manchester England), prominent British architect
    known for his sleek, modern buildings made of steel and
    glass.
    Foster was trained at the University of Manchester (1956–
    61) in England and Yale University (1961–62) in New Haven,
    Connecticut. Beginning in 1963, he worked in partnership
    with Richard and Su Rogers and his wife, Wendy Foster, in a
    firm called Team 4. In 1967 he established his own firm
    called Foster Associates .
    The Sainsbury Centre
    for the Visual Arts
    (1974–78) Norwich, England

    The first fosters buildings to receive international


    acclaim were The Sainsbury for the visual arts. It is an art
    gallery and museum located on the campus of The
    University of East Anglia, Norwich, England. The building
    is made up of vast, airy-glass and metal-paneled shed.
    The Sainsbury shared a belief that the study of art
    should be an informal, pleasurable experience, not
    bound by the traditional enclosure of object and viewer.
    A futuristic steel and glass office
    building with a stepped profile
    and the largest bank in Hong
    Kong and operates branches
    and offices throughout the Asia
    pacific region and in other
    countries around the world.

    The Hong Kong and Shanghai


    Banking Corporation
    headquarters (1979–86) in Hong Kong
    Foster established himself as one of the world's leader
    in high-tech design, for the latter building, he had
    ingeniously moved elements such a elevators to the
    exterior of the building, where they could be easily
    serviced and thus created open plans in the Centre
    spaces including The Hong Kong office and The
    Commerzbank Tower.

    The Commerzbank
    Tower
    (1991–97) Frankfurt am Main
    Germany
    Stansted
    (1981–91) outside London

    Chek Lap Kok


    (1992–98) in Hong Kong
    American Air Museum
    (1987–97) Duxford (England)
    airfield

    The Reichstag
    (1992–99) in Berlin
    The British Museum
    (1994–2000) in London

    The Smithsonian
    Institution’s Patent
    Office Building
    (2004–07) in Washington,
    D.C.
    London’s City
    Hall
    (1999–2002)

    The recipient of numerous awards for his work—including


    the Pritzker Prize (1999), the Japan Art Association’s Praemium
    Imperiale prize for architecture (2002), and the Aga Khan
    Award (2007) for his design of the Petronas University of
    Technology in Malaysia—Foster was knighted in 1990 and
    granted a life peerage in 1999.

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