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Foster and Partners is a leading firm of architects in the United Kingdom. The practice is strongly associated with its founder, Lord Foster, and has constructed many high profile glass and steel , high-tech buildings around the world. In particular they are known for their design of airport buildings.

Established by Norman Foster as Foster Associates in 1967 shortly after he left Team 4 , the company was renamed 'Foster and Partners' in the 1990s to more accurately reflect the influence of the other lead architects.

1 Major projects

London City Hall at night The Millau Viaduct, due for completion in 2005, will be the highest bridge in the world.

Some of the more major projects, by year of completion are:

• Sainsbury's Centre for Visual Arts at University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK (1978)
• HSBC Tower (1986)
• Terminal building at Stansted Airport, UK (1991)
• metroThis page refers to urban rail mass transit systems. For other uses see metro (disambiguation metro in Athens, Greece double as museums with displays of antiquities found in excavations of its tunnels in the historic city. A Metro is a form of mass transi of BilbaoGeography > Europe > Spain > Basque Country > Biscay Guggenheim Museum on the bottom right Bilbao ( Basque: Bilbo is a city in northern Spain, the largest city in the Pais Vasco and the capital of the province of Vizcaya (Basque: Bizkaia . A major seaport, Spain (1995) - Line 2 (2004)
• American Air Museum , Imperial War Museum DuxfordDuxford houses the Imperial War Museum's aircraft collection. This comprises a number of separate collections including the British Aircraft Collection and The American Air Museum in Britain. The British Air Collection has a varity of British aircraft inc, UK (1997) - Stirling Prize30 St Mary Axe (London, England). Its architects, Foster and Partners, were winners of the Stirling prize in 2004. The Stirling Prize is a British annual prize for architecture, named after the architect James Stirling, and organised by the Royal Institut
• Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre , Glasgow, UK (1997)
• Commerzbank TowerCommerzbank Tower was the tallest skyscraper in Europe (1997-2004), located in Frankfurt, Germany. It is second only to Moscow's Triumph-Palace. With an height of 981 ft/ 299 meters (56 stories) it provides approx. 3 million square feet / 121,000 square m in FrankfurtFrankfurt am Main [ˈfraŋkfʊrt] is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth largest city of Germany. Situated on the Main river, it has a population of approximately 650,000 (but about 2 million in its metropolitan a, Germany (1997)
• Hong Kong International AirportHong Kong International Airport is popularly referred to as Chek Lap Kok Airport ( Pinyin: Chilie Jio, Red Perch Cape), after Chek Lap Kok, one of the islands that make up the airport's 12. 48 km² platform reclaimed from sea. HKIA was built on an artifici, Chek Lap Kok in Hong KongThe Hong Kong Special Administrative Region or Hong Kong (, pinyin: Xinggng, WG: Hsiang-kang, Cantonese IPA, Jyutping or Penkyamp: hoeng1 gong2, meaning Fragrant Harbour , is one of two Special Administrative Regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of Chi (1998)
• Canary Wharf Underground Station, London, UK (1999)
• Glass dome for the Reichstag redevelopment in Berlin (1999)
• Millennium Bridge in London (1999/2002)
• Redevelopment of the Great Court of the British Museum (2000)
• London City Hall (2002)
• 30 St Mary Axe, London - Swiss Re headquarters (2004) - Stirling Prize
• MoorHouse , 117 London Wall, London (projected 2005)
• Wembley Stadium redevelopment (projected 2005)
• Millau Viaduct (projected 2005) the highest bridge in the world.
• Beijing Airport - in construction