CONTEMPORARY BUILDINGS OF

ARCHITECT

NORMAN ROBERT FOSTER

• born:1st june
• He is an English architect whose
company,foster+partners,maintains an international design
practice famous for high-tech architecture.
• He is the president of the norman foster foundation.
• This company promotes interdisciplinary thinking and
research to help the new generations of
architects,designers and urbanists to anticipate the future.
 IN 1999,he was awarded the pritzker architecture
prize,often referred to as the nobel prize of architecture.
 In 2009,Foster was awarded the prince of Asturias
award in the arts category.
 In 1994,he received the AIA gold medal.
 Received Aga Khan Award for architecture.
 He was made life peer in 1999-as lord Baron Foster of
Thames bank.
PHILOSOPHY

 “THE
BEST ARCHITECTURE COMES FROM A
SYNTHESIS OF ALL THE ELEMENTS THAT
SEPARATELY COMPRISE A BUILDING…”-
FOSTER
WORKS

 30 St Mary Axe
 The Hearst Tower in New York City
 Willis Faber and Dumas Headquarters
 Wembley Stadium
 HSBC Main building
 Commerz Bank Tower in Frankfurt,Germany
 City hall,London,England
 Apple Park,California
 Queen Elizabeth II Great Court,London
 Metro Bilbao,Spain
 Reichstag Building,Berlin,Germany
 Torre Cepsa,Madrid,Spain
 425 Park Avenue,New York
 Crystal Island,Moscow,Russia
 50 United Nations Plaza,New York City
 The Harmon,Las vegas,US
30 St Mary Axe

 TYPE:Office
 LOCATION: St Mary
Axe,LONDON,UK
 HEIGHT:180 Metres
 FLOOR COUNT:41
 FLOOR AREA:47950 square
metres
 The building has become an iconic symbol of London.
 The building uses energy saving methods which allow it to use half the power a
similar tower would typically consume.
 Gaps in each floor create six shafts that serve as a natural ventilation system for
the entire building even though required the firebreaks on every sixth floor
interrupt the chimney.
 The shafts create a giant double double glazing effect,air is sandwitched
between two layers of glazing and insulates the office space inside.
 The shafts pull out the warm air out of the building during summer and warm te
building in the the winter using passive solar heating.
 The primary methods for controlling wind –excited sways are to increase the
stiffness,or increase damping with tuned dampers.
 Despite its overall curved glass shape,there is only one piece
of curved glass on the building –the lens-shaped cap at the
very top.
 On the building’s top level there is a bar for tenants and their
guests featuring a 360 degree view of London.
 A restaurant operates on the 39th floor,and private dining
rooms on the 38th.
 Most buildings have extensive lift equipment on the roof of
the building ,it was not possible I gherkin,since the bar was
placed in 40th floor.
 The architects dealt with this by having the main lift only
reach the 34th floor,and then having a push-form-elow lift to
the 39th floor.
 There is a marble stairwell and a disabled persons’ lift which
leads the visitor upto the bar in the dome.
 The building is visible over long distances:from the north,for
instance,it can be seen from the M11motorway so me 32
kilometres away,while to the west it can be seen from the
statue of George III in Windsor Great Park.
FLOOR PLAN
ELEVATION
VIEWS
HEARST TOWER

 TYPE:Office
 LOCATION:300 West 57 street
 HEIGHT:182M
 FLOOR COUNT:46
 FLOOR AREA:80000 square metres
 Hearth tower is the first “green” high rise office building completed in New York
City with a number of environmental considerations built into the plan.
 The floor of the atrium is paved with heat conductive limestone.
 Polyethylene tubing is embedded under the floor and filled with circulating
water for cooling in the summe and heating in the winter.
 Rain collected on the roof is stored in a tank in the basement for use in the
cooling system,to irrigate plants and for the water sculpture in the main lobby.
 85% of the building’s structural steel contains recycled material.
 The building has been esigned to use 26% less energy than the minimum
requirements for the city of New York.
 The atrium features escalators which run through a 3 story
water sculpture titled icefall,a wide waterfall built with
thousands of glass panels,which cools and humidifies the
lobby air.
 The water element is complemented by a 70 foot tall fresco
painting titled Riverlines by the artist Richard Long.
 According to Curbed,”Designing a cleaning rig that could
that clean The Hearth Tower took the engineers at Tractel-
Swingstage three years;the company’s vice president of
engineering had never seen anything like what Foster and
Partners’called the building’s bird’s mouths”
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