page_title: Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank
section_title: Recognition
hierarchical_section_title: Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank / Recognition
caption_attribution_description: Hearst Tower, New York
context_page_description: Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, Kt, OM, RA, is an English architect whose company, Foster + Partners, maintains an international design practice.
  He is the President of the Norman Foster Foundation. The Norman Foster Foundation promotes interdisciplinary thinking and research to help new generations of architects, designers and urbanists to anticipate the future. The foundation, which opened in June 2017, is based in Madrid and operates globally.
  He is one of the most prolific British architects of his generation. In 1999, he was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of architecture.
context_section_description: Foster received The Lynn S. Beedle Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in 2007 to honour his contributions to the advancement of tall buildings.
  He was awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, for the University of Technology Petronas in Malaysia, and in 2008 he was granted an honorary degree from the Dundee School of Architecture at the University of Dundee. In 2009 he received the Prince of Asturias Award in the category Arts.
caption: The Hearst Tower in New York City
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