{"id":285737,"date":"2025-11-15T07:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285737\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T07:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:55:08","slug":"the-life-and-architecture-of-lord-norman-foster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285737\/","title":{"rendered":"The life and architecture of Lord Norman Foster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an office boy in 1950s Manchester, Norman Foster has become one the world\u2019s most admired and influential architects.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s designed Apple stores and the company&#8217;s circular headquarters in California, the Reichstag Building in Berlin, Wembley Stadium, \u00a0the so-called\u00a0 Gherkin Tower in London and two buildings in Sydney; Parkline Place and the Deutsche Bank building.<\/p>\n<p>An exhibition of Lord Foster&#8217;s architecture, drawings and the 3-D models scale models made by Foster + Partners is on in Sydney, called <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fosterandpartners.com\/news\/foster-plus-partners-civic-vision-exhibition-opens-at-sydney-s-parkline-place\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Civic Vision<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guest: Lord Norman Foster, founder of Foster + Partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From an office boy in 1950s Manchester, Norman Foster has become one the world\u2019s most admired and influential&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[463,449,458,459,64,63,460,134,139086,164964,164965,164966],"class_list":{"0":"post-285737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-architecture","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-au","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-foster-and-partners","17":"tag-lord-norman-foster","18":"tag-nick-bryant","19":"tag-sydney-metro-gadigal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}