When the new Commerzbank Tower opened recently in Frankfurt, it became the tallest building in Europe. Yet it’s just another realized blueprint for its architect, Sir Norman Foster, who is ...

British studio Foster + Partners has showcased large-scale models of 14 built, or in-progress, skyscrapers at an exhibition in the lobby of the recently renovated Transamerica Pyramid.

However, it was his 1997 Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt am Main, ... the Norman Foster Foundation, showcasing a new low-carbon concrete to create virtually instant refugee housing.

In celebration of his 90th birthday today, we've rounded up 12 key projects from the nearly six-decade-long career of Norman Foster. ... Commerzbank Tower, Germany, 1997.

Lo ndon-born architect Brandon Haw began his career with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in New York before joining Foster + Partners for what would be a 26-year run.. Evolving to senior partner and ...

The sun never sets on English architect Norman Foster's projects, ... The 53-story Commerzbank in Frankfurt, with operable windows and a vertiginous atrium, breathes like a lung.

Seeing Commerzbank as a staging post helps ... They were most obvious in the 259-metre Norman Foster-designed tower it had commissioned as its headquarters — at the time the tallest building ...

As far as tallest towers in the EU goes, Frankfurt’s 850-foot-tall Commerzbank Tower (1997), ... (2008), another Norman Foster–helmed project, round out the EU’s top-five tallest list.