Norman Foster
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Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, is an English architect and urbanist. He is widely recognised as a seminal pioneer of high-tech architecture and a defining figure in British moderni
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The HSBC Building in Hong Kong
The Century Tower, built in 1991
Foster lecturing in 2001
The Gherkin
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30 St Mary Axe, previously known as the Swiss Re Building, is a commercial skyscraper in London's primary financial district, the City of London. It is nicknamed The Gherkin after the vegetable of the
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…subsequent portfolio includes some of the world's most recognisable post-modern landmarks, including the reconstructed glass Reichstag dome in Berlin, 30 St Mary Axe ("The Gherkin") and the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court of the British Museum in London, and the solar-powered Apple Park corporate campus in Cupertino…
The Gherkin in 2007
The Gherkin seen from Leadenhall Street in contrast with the juxtaposition of the 16th century St Andrew Undershaft church in 2010
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Grand gherkin of the skies