1823-53, British Museum, London
The core of today’s British Museum, including the great south front,
The core of today’s British Museum, including the great south front,
Stansted, which opened in 1991, challenged all the accepted rules of airport design. It went back to the roots of modern air travel and literally stood conventional wisdom on its head.
Built for the Barcelona Olympics, this tower by Norman Foster & Partners was a competition winning entry to centralise the communications equipment which was spread all over the mountaintop.
One of the landmarks of the highrise centre of Frankfurt, the Commerzbank Tower is currently the tallest building in Europe.
Designed by award-winning architect Sir Norman Foster under a very-tight budget and often called “the armadillo”
Built as a result of an architectural competition, the Reichstag was originally designed by Paul Wallot and completed in 1894.
This spectacular dome is the largest single span glasshouse in the world, and was designed by Norman Foster and Partners.
City Hall was designed by Foster and Partners, whose design brief was to create a building for the GLA (Greater London Authority) that would become a new landmark for the capital.
Construction began in 2002 and was completed in 2005. The buildings unusual design and distinctive profile were guided by a number of factors,