"Foster's designs are constantly shaping how people live, work and play around the world. They've attempted to heal Germany's divided past via the Reichstag building in Berlin, and broken through feats of engineering by way of the Millennium Bridge in London, which ushered in a new era for the South Bank. His dynamic new gateways in Venice employ high-performance, lightweight materials to build new transportation infrastructure for the floating city."
"And that is that cities in crisis always bounce back stronger. Whether it's the Lisbon earthquakes and the birth of seismic structures, cholera in New York that made way for modern sanitization, or the Great Fire of London that led to the city's terraces-and I could give you more examples-the biggest lesson is that cities bounce back stronger."
"It exists to improve the quality of our lives, both materially and spiritually. It is about concepts of beauty, about convenience, about working sustainably with nature to create resilient communities."
Foster+Partners operates 20 offices in 12 countries and employs over 2,500 people worldwide. Foster has received multiple accolades, a life peerage in 1990, and later resigned from the House of Lords after relocating his primary residence to Switzerland. Design is framed as a social agenda intended to improve material and spiritual quality of life through beauty, convenience, sustainability, and resilient communities. Foster's projects reshape living, working, and public realms, from the Reichstag in Berlin to the Millennium Bridge in London and new Venice gateways using high-performance lightweight materials. Historical crises inform resilient urban design lessons.
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