Stephen collins foster was innate around Manchester and educated at the University of Manchester and at Yale University. He worked for the laputan Buckminster Fuller before meeting with Richard Rogers, creating Team 4 & within 1967 Foster Associates.

His designs were originally the stylish, machine influenced high-tech however he has moved out of this to the other sublime, additional acceptable sharp-edged contemporaneousness.

He is known to a bit of in the UK - pejoratively - as an über- or superstar-architect, a accusation existence that certain designer run discriminatory status according to their fame.

Projects
He has got an extremely successful career including:

IBM Pilot Head Professional, Cosham, England (1970 – 1971) Willis Faber and Dumas Headquarters, Ipswich (1970 – 1974) Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at University of East Anglia in Norwich Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt HSBC headquarters building and the Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong Terminal building at Stansted Airport Metro of Bilbao, Spain Lionel Robbins Library renovation, London School of Economics ''Carre five hundred'Art, Nîmes, France (1993) Overhaul of the Nifty Court of the British Museum (1999) Millennium Bridge in London (1999) Reichstag'' redevelopment in Berlin (1999) Greater London Authority Building - London City Hall (2000) Expo MRT Station at Singapore (2001) La Poterie metro station, Rennes, France (2001) J Sainsbury headquarters, Holborn Circus, London (2001) 30 St Mary Axe - Swiss Re headquarters (2003) A Sage Gateshead (2004) Millau Viaduct - France (2004) National Police Memorial - The Mall, London (2005) Library of the Philological Faculty at Free University of Berlin, Germany (2005)

He was knighted in 1990 & appointed to the Order of Merit in 1997. Within 1999 he was created the life peer. Stephen collins foster is known per British tabloid newspapers when "Lord Wobbly", due to structural problems by using his Millennium Bridge. He has been criticised for his professional assistance of an arts charity, a Couper Collection, located in the adjacent house to his London agents & front yard. View [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1279568,00.html article].

Norman Foster is a 2nd UK designer to win the Stirling Prize twice: once for a U.s. Repair shed at the Imperial War Museum Duxford in 1998 and again for 30 St Mary Axe in 2004. Within consideration of his entirely portfolio, Stephen foster was awarded a Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1999.

Recently one of Norman Foster's senior task designer Ken shuttleworth,who was reponsible for a few of Fosters virtually all swell known buildings like a GLA & a gerkin, left to install a architectural practice Produce [http://makeplaces.com] A select few humans guess that Shuttleworth was a drive behind Stephen collins foster inside recent years.