Colin Amery

Flights of futuristic fantasy

The Great Court of the British Museum is a good place to start.

issue 19 June 2010

The Great Court of the British Museum is a good place to start. Norman Foster brought light into the wonderfully elegant and inspiring glazed space at the heart of the museum where there had been nothing but greyness around the domed Reading Room. It also put Lord Foster of Thames Bank OM at the heart of the British cultural establishment.

Why don’t we know more about him? His creative achievement is enormous. He is 75 this year and his firm grows, employing over 1,000 people in 25 offices around the world. His clients include rulers of Middle Eastern oil rich states; the President of Kazakhstan; Commander Chen, responsible for all the new airports in China; Swiss banks and Russian oligarchs.

This book is the authorised biography, which rather puts it in the category of the approved corporate history.

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