Ahead of Norman Foster's 90th birthday this weekend, Dezeen explores how he became the most successful architect the world has ever seen – including by asking the man himself. "It's just amazing what ...

Norman Foster, the British architect, resembles the titans he serves ... cutaway illustrations showing the insides of machines. A drawing of his bedroom view was in the portfolio that secured ...

His latest project, dubbed the Gateway to Venice’s Waterway, recently unveiled at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, ...

Norman Foster’s Hong Kong Shanghai Bank headquarters ... The Drawing Gallery displayed Foster’s architectural drawings and sketches affording useful insight into his great mind.

Sketching and drawing have been a way of life for as long as I can remember. In 1975 I started the habit of carrying an A4 notebook for sketching and writing. Someone said that, if you ask me a ...

“As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown,” says Norman ... 130 Foster + Partners projects, represented in drawings ...

From his first drawing of an airplane to the Cockpit in the garden of the Creek Vean House (1966), Norman Foster has somehow woven his own sources of inspiration into his architecture, no matter ...

By Farah Nayeri Norman Foster in Gallery ... Foster was drawn to architecture from his teens in Manchester, England, filling his class notebook with drawings of buildings. He studied the ...

If you were looking to put up the finest high-rise office tower $1 billion could buy, you’d be wise to get Norman ... of modern architecture that dates from around the time Foster was a boy.

Underneath the subheading Sustainable Futures, Norman Foster’s introductory text to his latest ... with an opening room richly packed with the architect’s drawings, sketchbooks, and photography – the ...