Norman Foster is a renowned British architect known for landmark office buildings and innovative designs. Some of his most notable projects include the Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt, Germany, the tallest building in the EU; the Millennium Bridge in London; and the reconstruction and restoration of the German parliament building, the Bundestag, in Berlin. He has received several prestigious awards for his contributions to architecture.

2. 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.

3. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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).

8. 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).

9. 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.

11. 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.

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

13. Hearst Tower in New York City, New York is
located 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 communications
companies under one roof, Including
among others Cosmopolitan, Esquire,
Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Good
Housekeeping, Seventeen, and the
San Francisco Chronicle.

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

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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.

20. The Bundestag
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 underwent
reconstruction led by
internationally well-known
architect Norman Foster.
After its completion in 1999,
it became the meeting place
of the modern German
parliament, the Bundestag.

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. South Beach is planned a
commercial 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.