Foster and Partners
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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.
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[edit] Senior partners
The practice is an umbrella for some seven hundred architects, project specialists and support team, the main office is laid out in an open plan egalitarian style with all architects working at a similar desk irrespective of seniority.[citation needed]
As of 2006 the lead partners are:
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Another highly influential partner for most of the practice's history was Ken Shuttleworth who was a key team member in some of their most famous designs, including: 30 St Mary Axe, the Greater London Authority Building, Hong Kong International Airport and the Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt.Marcus Fairs. "Ken the Pen", The Guardian, 22 Jan 2003. Retrieved on 2007-03-22.
Shuttleworth's position as a team member meant that he was at the time more than happy to let the firm rightly take full credit — and in truth these highly technical buildings require the input from a large team of individuals and no one person can take all the credit. [opinion needs balancing] However at the end of 2003, after nearly 30 years of work, Shuttleworth raised his personal profile significantly and then left Foster and Partners to establish his own practice, MAKE.
[edit] Selected projects
Major projects, by year of completion are:
- 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, UK (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)
- MoorHouse, 117 London Wall, London (projected 2005)
- Wembley Stadium reconstruction (projected 2007)
- Beijing Airport — under construction
- Tanaka Business School
- New Supreme Court Building, Singapore (2005)
- Palace of Peace, Astana, Kazakhstan — (September 2006)
- Hearst Tower, New York City, New York (June 2006)
- Jameson House, Vancouver — (not yet on site)
- The Bow, Calgary - (projected 2010)
[edit] Awards
RIBA Stirling Prize 1998 30 St Mary Axe, The Gherkin 2004
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Foster and Partners Official website
- Foster and Partners at the archINFORM database
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| Stephen Hodder (1996) • Michael Wilford (1997) • Foster and Partners (1998) • Future Systems/Buro Happold (1999) • Alsop/Störmer (2000) • Wilkinson Eyre/Buro Happold (2001) • Wilkinson Eyre/Gifford (2002) • Herzog & de Meuron (2003) • Foster and Partners/Arup (2004) • EMBT/RMJM (2005) • Richard Rogers (2006) |
