Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.

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• Norman Foster:

  I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long haul:

• Norman Foster:

  I think cars encapsulate the history of innovation and style - it's the other side of the coin of t

• Norman Foster:

  You can find, occasionally, some absolutely fantastic things in hunting shops. I've got one jacket

• Norman Foster:

  A life-threatening illness or two certainly gives you an awareness of your own mortality. It height

• Norman Foster:

  The Italians have long known what makes a livable town or city.

• Norman Foster:

  Joseph Bazalgette created a sewer system which he originally sized for London's needs of the time -

• Norman Foster:

  I travel continuously, and I see many cities, but there is nowhere like London.

• Norman Foster:

  I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desir

• Norman Foster:

  The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbrok

• Norman Foster:

  We now think it hilarious that medieval streets were used as open sewers. Equally, our descendants