Throughout the index NF has been used as an abbreviation for Norman Foster. Norman Foster’s projects have also been annotated with (NF).
30 St Mary’s Axe (NF) see Swiss RE Headquarters
Aalto, Alvar, 67
aeroplanes and air travel, 10, 25, 34, 59, 60, 92, 268
helicopters, 74, 99–100, 120, 139, 291
Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 284
Agbar Tower, Barcelona, 185
Architectural Association, London, 51, 52, 73, 90, 96
Archigram, 52
Architects Registration Council, 96
Architectural Review, 46, 48, 128, 148
Art and Architecture Building, University of Yale, 68, 70, 72, 77–80
awards:
Chinese friendship award, 239
FT Industrial Architecture Award, 105
Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, 141, 284
Banham, Reyner, 52, 65, 146, 147, 148, 253–4
Bank of China, Hong Kong, 163, 175
Battersea office (Foster + Partners), 89, 249, 259–60, 272
BBC Radio Centre (NF; unbuilt), 100–1, 257, 282
Bean Hill estate, Milton Keynes, 159, 248–9
Beardshaw, John, 36, 37–8, 39–41, 54, 59–60, 97
Beeby, Thomas, 57–8, 72–3, 88–9
Behling, Stefan, 270
Beijing Airport (NF), 224–32, 233–4, 237, 283, 287
Beijing Olympic Stadium, 225, 237
Bernaskoni, Boris, 245
Betjeman, John, 29
Bijvoet, Bernard: Maison de Verre, Paris, 247–8
Bilbao Metro, Spain (NF), 152
Bill, Max, 152
Black, Misha, 92
Blair, Tony, 224
Blue Cross, Blue Shield Buildings, Boston, 76
Whitney Museum, New York, 159, 181
British Library, London, 75, 211, 216
British Museum, Great Court (NF), 152, 211–16, 250, 258, 264, 286
Browne, Kenneth, 48
Building Design Partnership, 49
Burj al Arab tower, Dubai, 189
Burnage High School, Manchester, 22–4
Burnham, Daniel Hudson: Monadnock Building, 90
Calatrava, Santiago, 200, 201, 206–7
Canary Wharf Underground Station (NF), 123
Caro, Anthony, 249
Casson, Hugh, 51
Faculty of Arts, University of Cambridge, 50
Central House of Arts, Russia, 244
Central Park, New York, 245
Charreau, Pierre: Maison de Verre, Paris, 247–8
Château Margaux, Bordeaux (NF), 290
Cheesman, Wendy see Foster, Wendy (1st wife)
Chep Lap Kok Airport, Hong Kong (NF), 234, 237, 275, 276, 289
Chesa Futura Housing, Switzerland (NF), 250–1
Chigirinsky, Shalva, 241–2, 243, 244
children, 95, 104, 121, 129, 260–1, 265
Childs, David: Ground Zero, New York, 57–8
China, 162–3, 169–70, 175, 227–8, 232–3, 237–40
see also Beijing Airport (NF)
Neues Museum, Berlin, 275
Citicorp Tower, New York, 160
City Hall, London (NF), 286
Climatroffice project, 125, 150
Commercial Union Tower, London, 183
Commerzbank Headquarters, Frankfurt (NF), 181, 200
Community and Privacy, 85–7, 88
competitions, 2, 92, 217, 242, 292
City of Tomorrow (Ruberoid Company), 87, 88
Ground Zero, New York, 186, 275, 280
Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation, 163–8, 254
Humana Headquarters, Louisville, 179–80
Newport School, South Wales, 76, 105
Reichstag, Berlin, 127, 199, 200, 201–2
computer technology and architecture, 257, 279–81, 283–4
Cook, Peter, 52
Cordingley, Professor Reginald Annandale, 41–2, 44, 47
Creak Vean House, Cornwall (Team Four), 64, 66–7, 93, 97
Crystal City project, 243, 246
Cullen, Gordon, 48
Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future, 3, 9 de Grey, Spencer, 105, 157, 165–6, 211, 214, 255, 257, 266, 270, 275
Denton Corker Marshall: Australian Embassy, Beijing, 227
Design Research Unit, London, 92
digital technology and architecture, 215, 257, 279–81, 283–4
Drew, Jane, 75
Dymaxion projects, 10, 144, 145
Dymsdale School, Manchester, 22
Eames, Charles and Ray, 105, 111, 247–8, 255
East Anglia University (UEA), 130, 138–9 see also Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
education, 33
Burnage High School, 22–4, 26–7
Dymsdale School, 22
Manchester University, School of Architecture, 41–8, 51, 91
see also Yale University
Empire State Building, New York, 157
John Beardshaw’s, 36, 37–8, 39–41, 54, 59–60
Manchester Town Hall, 27, 28–30, 33, 34–5 national service 33–4, 35 teaching 95–6, 104, 275 in the US, 68, 91–2
see also Foster and Associates; Team Four
Energiya, 240
environmental issues and architecture, 3, 145, 150, 189, 194–5, 198–9, 240
Newport School, South Wales, 76, 105
Tate Gallery, St Ives, 73
Evenden, Gerard, 271
Express Newspapers’ Buildings, 30–2, 125
Faculty of Arts, University of Cambridge, 50
Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (NF), 48
Falling Water, Pittsburgh, 89–90
fascism, 55–6, 108, 151, 152, 209
Federal Reserve Tower, Boston, 160
Financial Times, 217
Industrial Architecture Award, 105
Fisker, Kay, 49
Fitzroy Street offices (Foster and Associates), 252–4, 255
Fleetwood, Roy, 255
Foster, Elena (wife), 8, 120–1, 263, 264
Foster, Lillian (mother), 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 22, 93, 121–2
Foster, Norman
childhood, 11–13, 14–15, 19–25
family and home in Manchester, 4–6, 11–17, 121–122
children, 95, 104, 121, 129, 260–1, 265
design of homes, 247–8, 249, 250–1
hobbies, 24–6, 118, 119–21, 256, 262–3
character, 106, 149, 203, 261–4, 291–3
see also aeroplanes and air travel; Aicher, Otl; education; employment; Foster, Elena (wife); Foster, Lillian (mother); Foster, Robert (father); Foster, Wendy (1st wife); Foster + Partners; Foster Associates; Fuller, Buckminster; Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank; Olsen, Fred; politics in architecture; Rogers, Richard; Sainsbury, Robert and Lisa; Team Four; Yale University
Foster, Robert (father), 11, 14, 16–17, 19, 93, 121
Foster, Sabiha (2nd wife) see Knight, Sabiha
Foster, Wendy (1st wife), 93–5, 96, 104, 118–19, 129, 143, 157, 165–6, 259, 260, 261
Foster + Partners, 18, 277–9, 281–3, 285–90
Foster Associates, 104–18, 268
financial issues, 271–4, 276–7
see also Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank; Olsen, Fred; Sainsbury, Robert and Lisa
Fragrant Hills Hotel, Beijing, 227
Fred. Olsen Line, Millwall see Olsen, Fred Fulbright scholarships, 53
Fuller, Buckminster, 143–6, 272
Dymaxion projects, 10, 144, 154
NF influenced by, 57, 90, 125, 246, 291
NF’s relationship with, 141–2, 149–51, 154–5, 194, 249
Gateshead Millennium Bridge, 275
see also Reichstag, New German Parliament (NF)
‘Gherkin’ (NF) see Swiss RE Headquarters, London
Gies, Ludwig, 209
Gilbert, Cass
Union Station, New Haven, 62
Woolworth Building, New York, 173
Glyndebourne Opera, 265
Golden Orange project, 244, 245, 246
Gomera project (NF; unbuilt), 112–13
Graves, Michael, 173, 181, 211
Humana Headquarters, Louisville, 179–80
Great Court at the British Museum (NF)
see British Museum, Great Court
Great Portland Street offices (Foster and Associates), 254–5
Green, David, 52
Greenberg, Alan, 77
Grey, Milner, 92
Grimshaw, Nicholas, 106
Grindereng, William, 69
Gropius, Walter, 56, 66, 77, 79, 85, 157
Pan Am Building, New York, 83
Ground Zero, New York, 58, 186, 250, 275, 280
Guggenheim Museum, New York, 90, 186, 285
Hadid, Zaha, 77, 233, 241, 268, 272, 284
Hall, Ron, 104
Hammersmith Broadway tube station (NF; unbuilt), 254
Hampson, Frank, 9
Hancock Tower, Chicago, 173
Harvard University, Boston, 53, 56, 57, 66, 144
Haward, Birkin, 113, 254, 266, 275
Hearst Building (original by Joseph Urban), 187
Hearst Tower, New York (NF), 154–5, 185–8, 249, 264
Heathrow Airport, London, 226, 233
Herzog, Jacques, 233
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, 37, 70
Hitler, Adolf, 151, 152, 200, 210
hobbies, 24–6, 118, 119, 256, 262, 263
see also aeroplanes and air travel
Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, Hong Kong (NF), 76, 100, 101, 117, 140, 158, 220, 268, 271, 283
competition, 156–7, 160, 163–8
building the Hong Kong HQ, 171–3
completed Hong Kong HQ, 174–9, 181–2, 205–6, 263
Paul Rudolph’s opinion, 81, 82
see also HSBC (UK) Headquarters (NF)
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, 160–3
Hong Kong Club buildings, 160, 181–2
Hong Kong office (Foster and Associates), 255–6
Hopkins, Michael and Patti, 121, 265–6, 275
Glyndebourne Opera, 265
Portcullis House, 265
HSBC UK Headquarters, London (NF), 123, 160, 286
Humana Headquarters, Louisville, 179–80
Hunt, Tony, 97–8, 116, 136, 248, 251, 252
Illinois Institute of Technology, 56
International Finance Centre Tower, Hong Kong, 182
Jacobsen, Arne, 49
Jiushi Corporation Headquarters, Hong Kong (NF), 182
Johnson, Philip, 56, 65, 66, 126, 147, 173
Crystal Cathedral, California, 84
Johnson House ‘The Glass House,’ 84
Seagram Building, New York, 56, 83, 90
Kahn, Louis, 56, 65, 76, 90, 91
Kaplicky, Jan, 135, 170, 265, 272
Kazakhstan, 196–7, 241, 246, 289, 290
Keller, Dean, 78
Kennedy, J.F., 63, 75, 85–6, 91
Kerr, Philip, 259
Khan Shatyry entertainment centre project (NF), 246
Knight, Sabiha (2nd wife), 261
Krier, Leon, 77
Poundbury, Dorset, 141
Larkin Guaranty Offices, Buffalo, 77
Lasdun, Denys, University of East Anglia campus, 130–1, 138
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris), 11, 15, 18, 49, 75
work influences NF, 37, 55–6, 82, 291
Lee, Richard, 63
Lever House, New York, 83
Libeskind, Daniel, 58
Lichtenstein, Roy, 11
Lloyds Building, London, 101, 103, 164, 177
London Eye, London, 275
Long, Richard, 249
Loos, Adolf: Chicago Tribune Tower, 158
Luzhkov, Yuri, 244
Manchester Town Hall, 27, 28–30, 33, 34–5
Manchester University, School of Architecture, 41–8, 51–2, 54, 206
Marks, David: London Eye, London, 275
Masdar Development, Abu Dhabi (NF), 1–3, 155, 264
Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, 2 mass-produced homes, 144, 290–2
McMorran, Donald: Wood Street Police Station, 101
Médiathèque de Nîmes (NF), 249, 257–8
Mendelsohn, Erich, 84
Millau Viaduct, France (NF), 197–8
Millennium Bridge, London (NF), 11, 95, 143, 216–24, 275, 286
Millennium Dome, Greenwich (O2 Arena) (NF), 123
Millennium Tower projects (NF; unbuilt)
model-making, 25–6, 281–3, 287
Monadnock Building, Chicago, 90
More London Masterplan (NF), 286
Morris, Marcus, 8
Munden, Roy, 164, 166, 170, 175
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (NF), 258
NACO, 225 national service, 33–4, 35
National Westminster Bank Headquarters, London, 158, 183, 218
Nazarbayev, Nursultan, 196, 197, 246
Nelson, David, 117, 189–90, 191, 204, 240, 255, 256, 257, 266, 270, 275
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 132
Neues Museum, Berlin, 275
New Architecture Exhibition: Fosters, Rogers, Stirling Royal Academy of Art (1986), 100–1
New Holland Island, Russia (NF), 242, 243, 246
New York Public Library (NF), 18
Newby, Frank, 159
Newport School, South Wales, 76, 105
Agbar Tower, Barcelona, 185
O2 Arena, Greenwich (Millennium Dome) (NF), 123
Obayashi Corporation Millennium Tower, Japan, 188–9, 190
Ochoa, Elena see Foster, Elena
Olmsted, Frederick Law: Central Park, New York, 245
Olsen, Fred, 107, 109, 111, 112, 118, 143, 288
dock amenities, Millwall (NF), 107, 108–12, 113–15, 122, 124, 128, 135
Gomera scheme, 112–13 headquarters, Vestby, Norway (NF), 112, 150, 205
Regent Street showroom (NF), 112, 253
Orange Hand store, Hampstead, 104–5, 253
Ove Arup, 217, 220, 221–3, 225, 271
Palace of Peace and Reconciliation, Kazakhstan (NF), 196–7, 241, 249, 290
Palmer and Turner, 160
Pan Am Building, New York, 83
Parker, Peter, 75
Pedersen and Tilney, 91
Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong, 175
Fragrant Hills Hotel, 227
Hancock Tower, Chicago, 173
Pelli, Cesar, 179
International Finance Centre Tower, Hong Kong, 182
Petronas Tower, Kuala Lumpur, 189
People’s Liberation Army, China, 227
Petronas Tower, Kuala Lumpur, 189
Petronas University of Technology, Malaysia (NF), 284
Pevsner, Nikolaus, 79
Pittsburgh Patent Glazing Corporation, 114–15 politics and architecture, 193–5, 198, 199–201, 202–3, 207–11, 224–5, 226, 238–9, 244
Pompidou Centre, Paris (Beaubourg), 81–2, 102, 177
Pont Millau, France (NF), 197–8, 264, 285
Ponti, Gio: Pirelli Tower, Milan, 157
Prince of Asturias Prize, 284
Prince of Wales, 50–1, 77, 100, 141, 193, 217
Pritchard, Tony, 135
Pritzker Prize, 284
Prix Imperium Award, Japan, 284
Pushkin Museum, Moscow, 242–3, 290
Regent Street Polytechnic (University of Westminster), 51, 94
Reichstag, New German Parliament (NF), 127, 140, 197, 198–204, 206–11, 263, 282
see also politics and architecture; Wallot, Paul
Reliance Controls Factory, Swindon (Team Four), 76, 93, 100, 105, 106, 111, 122–3
Renault Distribution Centre, Swindon (NF), 10–11, 257
Ridsdill-Smith, Roger, 217, 219
Ritchie, Ian, 265
Rogers, Richard, 41, 53, 58–9, 64, 73–4, 92, 99–100, 143, 193, 194, 265
collaborates with NF at Yale, 76–7, 91
88 Wood Street, London, 101–2, 103
Lloyds Building, London, 101, 103, 164, 177
New Architecture exhibition (1986), 100, 101
Pompidou Centre (Beaubourg), 81–2, 102, 177, 256
see also Team Four
Rogers, Su, 74, 75, 91, 92, 98–9
Rohe, Mies van der, 32, 90, 125, 158, 173, 184, 255, 282–3
Illinois Institute of Technology, 56
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 132
Seagram Tower, New York, 56, 83, 173, 185
Ronan Point, London, 139
Root, John Wellborn: Monadnock Building, 90
Rossiya Hotel, Moscow, 242, 243
Rossiya Tower, Moscow (NF; unbuilt), 182, 242, 243
Rotis font, 152
Royal Air Force, 34
Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), 163, 164
Rudolph, Paul, 56–7, 71–3, 81–2, 89, 98, 143, 253, 270
Art and Architecture Building, Yale, 68, 70, 72, 77–80
Blue Cross, Blue Shield offices, Boston, 76
Cocoon House, Siesta Key, 66
Foster and Roger’s work, 81–2 house and studio, 68–70
NF’s Yale projects, 76, 117, 158
School of Forestry, Yale, 66
Temple Street car park, New Haven, 67
Rufford Hall, Cheshire, 45
Ezra Stiles and Morse colleges, Yale University, 65
TWA terminal, Idlewild Airport, 60
Sackler Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts (NF), 69, 258
Sagoo, Narinder, 270
Sainsbury, David, Baron, 11, 193
Sainsbury, Robert and Lisa, 127–30, 132–3, 134, 136, 137, 138, 141, 143
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (NF), 84, 98, 105, 131–42, 198, 282
Samuel Beckett Theatre project (NF; unbuilt), 149–50
Sandberg, Michael, 157, 162, 163, 165
Scott, Peter, 184
Seagram Building, New York, 56, 83, 90, 173
Sears Tower, Chicago, 158
Seidler, Harry, 157
Hong Kong Club Building, 181–2
Seifert, Richard: National Westminster Bank Headquarters, London, 158
Sert, Jose Lluis, 57
Shuttleworth, Ken, 255, 266, 275
Simpson, Ian, 265
Sitte, Camillo, 48
Skybreak House, Hertfordshire (Team Four), 93
Small, John, 255
Smithson, Peter and Alison, 147
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, 214
Lever House, New York, 83
Spence, Basil: Coventry Cathedral, 10
sports see hobbies
St Paul’s Cathedral, London, 217, 244, 282
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 115–16
Stansted Airport (NF), 136, 234, 235–6, 257, 258, 286
Stern, Bob, 77
Stirling, James, 32, 55, 70, 75–6, 90, 100, 105, 147
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 115–16
Stirling Prize, 284
Street Porter, Tim, 116
Stubbins, Hugh, 157
Citicorp Tower, New York, 160
Federal Reserve Tower, Boston, 160
Sullivan, Louis, 90
Sutcliffe, Mark, 271
Swiss RE Headquarters, London (NF), 103, 154–5, 182–5, 186–7, 191, 192, 217, 275, 283, 286
Sydney Opera House, 49, 164, 220 symbolism and architecture, 197–9, 203, 208–10, 238
see also politics and architecture
Tate Gallery, St Ives, 73
Team Four, 41, 66, 75, 93–4, 95–9, 103, 106, 266, 270
Team Ten, 93
Television House, Manchester, 38
Temple Street car park, New Haven, 67
Thompson, Mike, 107, 109–10, 112
Tigerman, Stanley, 77
Torre de Collserola, Barcelona (NF), 182, 275
Torre Velasca, Milan, 49
Tower 42, London, 158, 183, 218
Trafalgar Square Redevelopment (NF), 216
Tubbs, Ralph: Dome of Discovery, Festival of Britain, 9
TWA terminal, Idlewild Airport, 60
Union Station, New Haven, 62
Unite d’Habitation, Marseilles, 11
Urban, Joseph, 187
Utzon, Jorn Oberg: Sydney Opera House, 49, 256
Vanbrugh, John: Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, 202
Virlogeux, Michel, 198
Walker, Derek, 159
Walker, John, 116
Wallis, Barnes, 145
Wallot, Paul: Reichstag, Berlin (original building), 199–200, 201, 203
Waterhouse, Alfred, 271
Manchester Town Hall, 27
Natural History Museum, London, 28
Watts, Thomas, 213
Webb, Philip: Red House, Bexleyheath, 284–5
Weidenfeld, George, Baron, 11, 193
Wembley Stadium, London (NF), 264, 286
Whitby, George: Wood Street Police Station, 101
Whitney Museum, New York, 159–60, 180–1
Wilkinson, Chris: Gateshead Bridge, 275
Williams, Owen: Express Newspapers’ Buildings, 30–2
Willis Faber and Dumas Headquarters, Ipswich (NF), 31–2, 115, 116, 123–6, 140–1, 151, 253, 266
Wilson, Colin St John: British Library, 75
Witchita House project, 144
Woolworth Building, New York, 173
World Trade Center, New York, 158
Wren, Christopher, 101
St Paul’s Cathedral, 217, 244, 282
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 11, 37, 39, 80, 82, 207
Falling Water, Pittsburgh, 89–90
Guggenheim Museum, New York, 90, 186, 285
Larkin Guaranty Offices, Buffalo, 77
Yakubu, Armstrong, 270
Yale Daily News, 78
NF arrives, 60–1, 62, 63–4, 65–6
NF collaborates with Richard Rogers, 76–7
NF influenced by Paul Rudolph, 68–9, 70–2, 76
NF’s student travel and lifestyle, 73–5, 89–90
see also Art and Architecture Building; Chermayeff, Serge; Johnson, Philip; Rogers, Richard; Rudolph, Paul; Scully, Vincent
Zunz, Jack, 172