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Norman Foster
British Architect
Reichstag Building
Facts
Also Known As Lord Norman Foster of
Thames Bank or Norman Robert Foster
Born June 1, 1935, Manchester, England
British architect known for his sleek
modern buildings made of steel and
glass.
Some Awards and honor of Norman
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Foster are Praemium Imperiale (2002)
Pritzker Prize (1999) museum
Architectural style
High-tech Architecture
Sustainable Architecture

Design Concept
Norman Foster is famous for his sleek,
streamlined new structures as well as his
complimentary yet ultra-modern redesigns of London city hall
classic buildings. His architectural identity,
called the "hero of high-tech," is a design that
opens a building up to the public, is
environmentally conscious, and saves money
by integrating modern materials and
innovative technology.

Design Philosophy Hearst Tower

Foster describes architecture as the
expression of values. He says, it's
''A balancing act of integrating and somehow
responding to all the needs of a project:
material and measurable; as well as the
spiritual and intangible, the subjective; it is
somehow about making all those value
judgments.'' The Bow
For Foster,
''Great architecture should wear its message
lightly.'' He believes a good architect should
have ''an open mind, energy, an appetite for
hard work, a willingness to explore new
solutions and push boundaries.''
Foster's design philosophy involves
integration, regeneration, adaptability, Millau Viaduct
flexibility, technology, and ecology. His
architecture is a combination of these
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"The new courtyard is stunningly beautiful. The graceful glass-and-steel roof manages both to respect the classical
architecture of the original building and to provide a gentle counterpoint to it."
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TYPOLOGY
For many years, the central courtyard of the British Museum was one of London's great lost public
Rehabilitation
places. The British Library, whose reading room was created in the central courtyard according to the
Museum Culture /
Leisure original plan designed by Robert Smirke, was housed in the museum shortly after its completion in 1846.
DATE 1994 - 2000 This courtyard was quickly overrun with low-quality buildings designed to hold the institution's burgeoning
TOWN London bibliographic collection, rendering it impractical. The museum would be like a vast city without a park if it
COUNTRY United didn't have this backbone. As a result, the proposal suggests rediscovering this area.
Kingdom
The transfer of the British Library to the St. Pancras building in 1998, as
well as the subsequent demolition of the book stores, allowed for the
creation of a new area that would serve the museum and the city, and that,
once covered, could have the qualities of both an indoor and outdoor
public space, with access to all rooms. With new galleries, an auditorium,
study rooms, shops, and restaurants, the project also offers a range of
services that adapt the museum to the needs of a 21st-century exhibition
space.

The central drum stands free-standing as the focal

element of the new courtyard after the book
storage buildings attached to the reading room
were demolished. The occasion has also been
used to reconstruct the south entrance porch,
which was demolished in the 1870s.

This large central space is covered with a glass roof, allowing it to be used
in any weather. The roof's weight is transferred to the base via columns
embedded in the stone skin, with no visible supports to preserve the
original façade's composition. The geometric issue given by the meeting of
a rectangle perimeter and a cylinder five meters away from the central
point on the east-west axis is solved using an irregular toroidal shape with
3,312 glass panels of varying sizes. The design's complexity necessitated
the development of a custom computer program to calculate it, and each of
the components was sponsored by individuals or businesses.

The new courtyard of the British Museum,

located in the heart of Bloomsbury, is one of
the landmarks of the regeneration project
that connects the university areas of the
north, the British Library, Covent Garden,
Trafalgar Square, and, finally, the Thames
River via a pedestrian route.

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