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Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, OM, FRIBA, FCSD, RDI (born 1 June 1935) is an English architect.
His company, Foster and Partners, has an international design practice.
He is the United Kingdom's biggest builder of landmark office buildings.
He is one of Britain's most prolific architects of his generation.
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.
Foster was born to Robert Foster and Lilian Smith in 1935 in Reddish, Stockport, Cheshire.
They moved, soon after his birth, two miles to 4 Crescent Grove in Levenshulme, Manchester, which they rented for fourteen shillings (70p) a week: Foster has no recollection of Reddish.
Foster's parents were diligent, hard workers – so diligent that Foster, as an only child, felt their heavy workload restricted his relationship with them and he was often looked after by neighbours or other family members.
He attended Burnage Grammar School for Boys in Burnage.
In a Guardian interview in 1999, Foster said he always felt 'different' at school and was bullied and he retired into the world of books.
He considered himself quiet and awkward in his early years often making faux pas.
Foster described Manchester as "one of the workshops of the world" and "the embodiment of a great city", his father, Robert, worked at Metropolitan-Vickers, Trafford Park which fuelled Foster's interest in engineering and design.
He was fascinated with engineering and the process of designing.
He says that caused him to pursue a career designing buildings.
Specific interests included aircraft, a hobby he maintains today; and trains, generated by viewing passing trains on the railway outside his terraced home during his childhood.
He left school at 16 and worked in the Manchester City Treasurer's office.
Next, he joined the National Service in the Royal Air Force.
After he was discharged, in 1956 Foster attended the University of Manchester's School of Architecture and City Planning.
He graduated in 1961.
Later, Foster won the Henry Fellowship to the Yale School of Architecture, where he earned his Master's degree Foster also met Richard Rogers at Yale.
He then travelled in America for a year.
He returned to the UK in 1963.
Then he set up an architectural practice as Team 4 with Rogers and the sisters Georgie and Wendy Cheesman.
Georgie (later Wolton) was the only one of the team that had passed her RIBA exams.
This allowed them to set up in practice on their own.
Team 4 quickly earned a reputation for high-tech industrial design.
Foster took a job as assistant to a contract manager with John Bearshaw and Partners, a local architectural practice.
The staff advised him, that if he wished to become an architect, he should prepare a portfolio of drawings using the perspective and shop drawings from Bearshaw's practice as an example.
Bearshaw was so impressed with the drawings that he promoted the young Foster to the drawing department of the practice.
In 1956 Foster won a place at the University of Manchester School of Architecture and City Planning.
Foster was not eligible for a maintenance grant so took up a number of part-time jobs to fund his studies, becoming an ice-cream salesman, night-club bouncer and working night shifts at a bakery to make crumpets.
He combined these with self-tuition via visits to the local library in Levenshulme.
Foster took a keen interest in the works of Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer and graduated from Manchester in 1961.
Foster won the Henry Fellowship to the Yale School of Architecture, where he met future business partner Richard Rogers and earned his master's degree.
Vincent Scully encouraged Foster and Rogers to travel in America for a year.
After returning to the UK in 1963 he set up an architectural practice as Team 4 with Rogers and the sisters Georgie and Wendy Cheesman.
Georgie (later Wolton) was the only one of the team that had passed her RIBA exams allowing them to set up in practice on their own.
Team 4 quickly earned a reputation for high-tech industrial design.
Foster + Partners
After Team 4 went their separate ways, Foster and Wendy Cheesman founded Foster Associates, which later became Foster and Partners in 1967.
A long period of collaboration with American architect Richard Buckminster Fuller began in 1968 and continued until Fuller's death in 1983.
They collaborated on several projects that became catalysts in the development of an environmentally sensitive approach to design – including the Samuel Beckett Theatre project.
The turning point was the 1969 administrative and leisure center for Fred.
Olsen Lines in London Docklands, where workers and managers are not separated any more.
Foster and Partners' breakthrough building in the UK was the Willis Faber & Dumas headquarters in Ipswich, of 1974.
The client was a family run insurance company which wanted to restore a sense of community to the workplace.
Foster created open plan office floors long before open-plan became the norm.
In a town not over-endowed with public facilities, the roof gardens, 25 metre swimming pool and gymnasium enhanced the quality of life for the company's 1200 employees.
The building has a full-height glass façade moulded to the medieval street plan and contributes drama, subtly shifting from opaque, reflective black to a glowing backlit transparency as the sun sets.
The design was inspired by the Daily Express Building in Manchester a work Foster admired in his youth.
The building is now Grade I* listed.
The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, an art gallery and museum on the campus of the University of East Anglia, Norwich, was one of the first major public buildings to be designed by Foster, completed in 1978, and became grade II* listed in December 2012.
In 1990 Foster's design for the Terminal Building at London Stansted Airport was awarded the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Award.
Foster gained a reputation for designing office buildings.
In the 1980s he designed the HSBC Main Building in Hong Kong for HSBC.
The building is marked by its high level of light transparency, as all 3500 workers have a view to Victoria Peak or Victoria Harbour.
Foster said that if the firm had not won the contract it would probably have been bankrupted.
Foster believes that attracting young talent is essential, and is proud that the average age of people working for Foster and Partners is 32, just like it was in 1967.
Today, Foster + Partners works with its engineers to use computer systems.
They pay attention to basic physical laws such as convection.
They have created efficient buildings like the Swiss Re London headquarters in London.
The walls let in air for passive cooling and then let it out as it warms and rises.
Foster's earlier designs reflected a sophisticated, machine-influenced high-tech vision.
In 2004, Foster designed the tallest bridge in the world, the Millau Viaduct in Southern France, with the Millau Mayor Jacques Godfrain stating; "The architect, Norman Foster, gave us a model of art."
In January 2007, The Sunday Times reported that Foster had called in Catalyst, a corporate finance house, to find buyers for Foster + Partners.
Foster does not want to retire, but wants to sell his 80-90% holding in the company valued at £300M to £500M.
Foster is a member of the board of Trustees for the architectural charity Article 25.
They design, construct and manage safe, sustainable buildings in dangerous parts of the world.
He has also been on the Board of Trustees of The Architecture Foundation.
Foster designed the Apple Campus in Cupertino and is currently designing most of their Apple stores.
He is also designing Bloomberg's headquarters in London.
He also recently designed the Monaco Yacht club and the McLaren technology centre.
Foster currently sits on the Board of Trustees at architectural charity Article 25 who design, construct and manage innovative, safe, sustainable buildings in some of the most inhospitable and unstable regions of the world.
He has also been on the Board of Trustees of the Architecture Foundation.
Foster was knighted in 1990 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1997.
In 1999, he was created a life peer, as Baron Foster of Thames Bank, of Reddish in the County of Greater Manchester.
He was a Crossbencher; he resigned from the House of Lords in 2010 because he refused to pat UK taxes on his foreign earnings.
He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers and winner of the Minerva Medal, the Society's highest award.
In Germany Lord Foster received the Order Pour le Mérite.
It was announced in January 2008 that Foster was to be awarded an honorary degree from the Dundee School of Architecture at the University of Dundee.
In 2009 Foster was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award in the category Arts.
In 2012, Foster was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles' Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life that he most admires.
Foster married business partner Wendy Cheesman.
She died in 1989, leaving him with four sons.
whilst he was greiving, he was also diagnosed with bowel cancer.
He next married Indian-born Begum Sabiha Rumani Malik.
Sabiha was married to Andrew Knight when she and Foster met.
Knight was Chairman of News International.
Foster and Sabiha divorced in 1998.
Foster is now married to Elena Ochoa, Chairman of the Tate International Council, and founder of Ivory Press.
He has five children and three grandchildren.
Selected projects
Foster has established an extremely prolific career in the span of four decades.
The following are some of his major constructions:
Masterplans[edit]
More London, London, UK (1998–2000)
Duisburg Inner Harbour, Germany (1991–2003)
Trafalgar Square Redevelopment, London, UK (1996–2003)
Quartermile, Edinburgh, Scotland 2001-
Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, UAE 2007-
West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong (2009)
Thames Hub, UK, 2011-
Cardiff Central Square, UK, 2015-
Bridges[edit]
Millau Viaduct, the highest road bridge in the world (2004)
Western Årsta Bridge, Årstabroarna, Sweden (1994/2005)
Millennium Bridge in London (1999/2002)
Government[edit]
Reichstag building redevelopment in Berlin (1999)
London City Hall (2002)
New Supreme Court Building, Singapore (2005)
Palace of Peace and Reconciliation in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan — (September 2006)
Buenos Aires City Hall (new headquarters), Buenos Aires, Argentina  (April 2015 )
Cultural[edit]
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK (1978)
Clyde Auditorium, part of the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre complex, Glasgow (1997)
Sackler Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (1985–1991)
Carré d'Art, [Nîmes, France] 1984–1993
American Air Museum, Imperial War Museum Duxford, UK (1997) — Stirling Prize
Redevelopment of the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court of the British Museum (2000)
The Sage Gateshead, [Gateshead, England], (1997–2004)
The Zenith, Le Zénith#Le Zénith de Saint-Étienne, St Etienne, France (2004–2007)
The Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard, Smithsonian Institution, [National Portrait Gallery], Washington, DC (2004–2007)
Winspear Opera House, Dallas (2003–2009)
Art of the Americas Wing, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [Boston, USA](1999–2010)
Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center, [Astana, Kazakhstan](2006–2010)
Sperone Westwater Gallery, [New York, USA] (2008–2010)
Extension to Lenbachhaus art museum, Munich (2013)
The SSE Hydro, Glasgow, Scotland (2004–2013)
Higher education[edit]
Kings Norton Library, Cranfield University, UK (1994)
Faculty of Law, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (1995)
Faculty of Management (now known as Aberdeen Business School), The Robert Gordon University, UK (1998)
Imperial College School of Medicine, Sir Alexander Flemming Building, London, UK 1994–1998
Center for Clinical Science Research, Stanford University Stanford, California, USA (1995–2000)
British Library of Political and Economic Science, London School of Economics,
Imperial College London, Flowers Building London, UK 1997–2001
Faculty of Social Studies, University of Oxford, UK (1996–2002)
James H. Clark Center, Stanford, California, USA (1999–2003)
Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia (2004)
Tanaka Business School, as of 2008 renamed the Imperial College Business School, London 2004
Free University of Berlin Berlin, Germany 2005
Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada (2006)
Library, California State University California, USA 2000–2008
Yale School of Management, new campus, New Haven, CT (projected 2013)
Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2007–2015)
China Resources University, Shenzhen (2011-2016)
Sport[edit]
Wembley Stadium reconstruction (2007)
Lusail Iconic Stadium, Qatar (2010)
Transportation[edit]
Metro Bilbao, Spain (1995) — Line 2 (2004)
Hong Kong International Airport, Chek Lap Kok in Hong Kong (1998)
Canary Wharf Underground Station, London, UK (1999)
Expo MRT Station, Singapore (2001)
Dresden Central Station Redevelopment, Germany (1997–2006)
Beijing Capital International Airport (2008)
London Heathrow Airport East Terminal (projected 2013)
Spaceport America, New Mexico (2005–2013)
Four railway stations for the Haramain High Speed Rail Project, Saudi Arabia (projected 2015)
Kai Tak Cruise Terminal (projected 2013)
New Mexico City International Airport (projected 2020)
Slussen, re-development and masterplan of a major transportation hub in central Stockholm (projected 2022)
Queen Alia International Airport, Amman, Jordan 2005–2013
Thames Hub, UK, from 2011
Thames Hub Airport, UK, from 2013
Office[edit]
Olsen Lines terminal, London Docklands (1971)
Willis Building (Ipswich), UK, (1971–1975)
HSBC Tower (1986)
Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt, Germany (1997)
Citigroup Centre, London, London, UK (1996–2000)
HSBC HQ, 8 Canada Square, London, UK (1997–2002)
The Gherkin (30 St Mary Axe), London — Swiss Re headquarters (2004) — Stirling Prize winner
McLaren Technology Centre, base for the McLaren Formula One team and McLaren Group (2004)
Deutsche Bank Place, Sydney, Australia, (1997–2005)
Hearst Tower, New York City (June 2006)
Willis Building (London) London, UK (2001–2007)
Caja Madrid, Madrid, Spain (2002–2009)
Apple Campus 2 in Cupertino, California
The One, Toronto (under construction)
Leisure[edit]
The Great Glashouse National Botanic Garden of Wales, Wales, UK (1995–2000)
Elephant House, Copenhagen Zoo#Foster's Elephant House, Denmark (2002–2008)
Dolder Grand restoration, Zürich, Switzerland (2002–2008)
Faustino Winery Bodegas Faustino, Castilla y Leon, Spain (2007–2010)
ME Hotel, ME by Meliá, London, UK (2004–2013)
Mixed use[edit]
Albion Riverside, London, UK (1998–2003)
Al Faisaliyah Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, (1994–2000)
The Index (Dubai), Dubai, UAE (2010)
The Troika (Kuala Lumpur), Malaysia (2004–2011)
The Bow, Calgary (2005–2013)
Central Market Project, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2006–2013)
One Central Park, Sydney
(Formerly) 200 Greenwich Street, New York (projected 2020) Two World Trade Center
CityCenterDC, Washington, D.C. (first portion projected 2012; second portion projected 2015)
Crystal Island (completion date not set yet)
Hermitage Plaza, La Défense, Paris from 2008
India Tower (cancelled)
Comcast Technology Center, Philadelphia (predicted completion date 2017)
VietinBank Business Center Office Tower, Hanoi, Vietnam (predicted completion date 2017)
Battersea Power Station Phase 3, London, UK (under construction)
Residential[edit]
The Murezzan, St Moritz, Switzerland (2003–2007)
Regent Place, Sydney, Australia (2003–2007)
Jameson House, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (2004–2011)
The Aleph, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2006–2013)
Anfa Place, Casablanca, Morocco (2007–2013)
Faena House, Miami Beach
The Towers by Foster + Partners, Brickell (Miami)
Arcoris Mont Kiara, Malaysia (projected 2016)
610 Lexington Avenue (projected 2016)
50 United Nations Plaza (projected 2014)
Non-architectural projects
Foster's other design work has included the Nomos desk system for Italian manufacturer Tecno, and the motor yacht Izanami (later Ronin) for Lürssen Yachts.
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Foster and Partners
Bio at the Pritzker Prize
Interview with Norman Foster(video)
Foster's projects on the map , Gauardian gallery of 16 projects
Building "The Gherkin" (film)
A (video) tour of the Clark Center
Norman Foster's building Valencia Conference Centre
Foster and Partners Projects in the Middle East
TED Talks: Norman Foster's green agenda at TED in 2007
Foster chosen for iconic redevelopment Mikhail Bode, Russia Beyond the Headlines 18 December 2007
The Cessna 152 is a single-engine airplane.
It can carry up to two people including the pilot.
Many pilots throughout the world have gotten their training with C152s.
Thomas Heatherwick (born 17th February 1970) is an English designer and artist.
He is known for innovative use of engineering and materials in public monuments and sculptures.
He heads the Heatherwick Studio, which he founded in 1994.
Born in London, he studied three dimensional design at Manchester Polytechnic and at the Royal College of Art, winning several prizes.
Shortly after graduating from the Royal College of Art after a two-year furniture MA course in 1994, he was commissioned by Harvey Nichols department store in Knightsbridge to design a temporary structure for the shop's facade.
His design was a ribbon of laminated wood that wound through the storefront windows.
The design was widely acclaimed and won him a D&AD yellow pencil (the gold award) in 1997.
He founded Thomas Heatherwick Studio (now called just Heatherwick Studio) in 1994.
His aim was "to bring architecture, design and sculpture together within a single practice".
Originally based at Camden Mews, the studio moved to larger premises in Kings Cross in 2000.
It presently comprises a thirty-strong team which includes architects, landscape architects, designers and engineers.
Work is carried out from a combined studio and workshop where concept development, detailing, prototyping and small scale fabrication take place.
The studio's work spans commercial and residential building projects, masterplanning and infrastructure schemes as well as high profile works of public art.
Heatherwick is a Senior Fellow and external examiner at the Royal College of Art.
He is a fellow of the Royal Academy and was recently chosen to become a Royal Designer for Industry.
He has served on numerous judging and advisory panels and has given talks at various institutions including the RIBA, Bartlett School of Architecture, the South Africa Design Indaba conference and the Royal Academy.
The B of the Bang was a £1.42 million 56m-high sculpture of 180 giant spikes, erected outside the City of Manchester Stadium to celebrate the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
Safety problems happened soon after it was completed in 2004 when one spike came apart.
Eventually 22 more were removed as a safety measure.
The object was rewelded and fenced off.
It continued to cause concern and debate over its future.
Finally Manchester City Council took legal action against Heatherwick studio and their subcontractors, who in November 2008 agreed to pay £1.7 million in damages.
The installation was removed in 2009.
The 'East Beach Café' is a building on Littlehampton Sea Front, West Sussex, UK created by Heatherwick.
Commissioned in 2005, the large steel structure houses a Café by daytime and restaurant in the evening.
The concept allowed the steel to rust and the colours to develop over time before being fixed in a transparent oil.
It won the 2008 RIBA Award in the South East region.
Sculpted forms in laminated wood, Guastavino Restaurant, New York City
B of the Bang, Manchester
Bleigiessen, Wellcome Trust, London
Blue Carpet, Newcastle upon Tyne
The Rolling Bridge (also known as "the curling bridge"), Paddington Basin, London
Longchamp store in the SoHo district of New York City
Interior, Konstam Restaurant, Kings Cross, London WC1
Southorn Playground, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
"Zip Bag" handbag for Longchamp
East Beach Cafe, Littlehampton
Boiler Suit, Guy's Approaches, Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital, London
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth University
Sitooterie II, Barnards Farm, West Horndon, Essex.
Thomas Heatherwick was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Arts by Manchester Metropolitan University - his alma mater - on July 21, 2007.
It is in recognition of his design work across a broad spectrum of architecture, engineering and public art, achieving national and international acclaim for his innovative use of materials, his eclectic range of projects, and the resolution of them in new and exciting ways.
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East Beach Cafe
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A louver (American English) or louvre (British English), from the French l'ouvert; "the open one") is a window, blind or shutter with horizontal or, less often, vertical slats.
They are angled to allow light and air in.
They also keep out rain, direct sunshine, and noise.
The angle of the slats may be adjusted.
Louvers come from the Middle Ages as lantern-like constructions in wood that were fitted on top of roof holes.
They were put in large kitchens to allow ventilation while keeping out rain and snow.
They were originally rather rough constructions consisting only of a barrel.
Later they became more elaborate designs made of pottery.
They took the shape of faces where the smoke and steam from cooking would pour out through the eyes and mouth.
They also became more like modern louvers, with slats that could be opened or closed by pulling on a string.
More modern louver windows are made of slats of glass, opened and closed with a metal lever.
They may also be shutters of wood, plastic or other material.
Fixed mirrored louver systems can limit glare and of redirect diffuse light.
Such louvers may be put in between two panes of double glazing.
Louvers are rarely seen as primary design elements in the language of modern architecture.
They are rather simply a technical device.
However, there are examples of architects who use them as part of the overall aesthetic effect of their buildings.
The most well-known example is Finnish modernist architect Alvar Aalto who would create aesthetic effects in the facades of his buildings through the combination of different types and sizes of louvers.
Some are fixed and some are moveable.
They are made mostly from wood (e.g. the various buildings of the Helsinki University of Technology).
A second example, taking influence from Aalto, is the second-generation modernist architect Juha Leiviskä.
Additionally, louvers are used as semi-passive means of thermal control on spacecraft.
They are also available as an accessory for some automobiles.
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The sixth and final season of the American television series Lost began broadcast in the United States and Canada on February 2, 2010.
In the final 18 TV episodes, the writers showed the fate of the remaining survivors, and explained the powers which the Island held in their lives.
The sixth-season premiere was the first to climb in the ratings year-over-year since the second season, drawing 12.1 million viewers.
The series finale aired on May 23, 2010.
The final episode ran 2.5 hours starting at 9/8 CDT, pushing the late-night news back a half-hour.
It was followed by the previously announced post-finale special, Jimmy Kimmel Live: Aloha to Lost, at 12:05 a.m. (11:05 CDT).
The season continued the stories of the survivors of the fictional September 22, 2004 crash of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815, on an unknown island in the South Pacific.
The survivors must deal with two outcomes of the explosion of a nuclear bomb on the island in the 1970s.
While the on-island story continues, a set of "flash sideways" scenes show a second timeline, in which Flight 815 never crashes.
The season was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 24, 2010, alongside a complete series boxset.
For a summary of the final season's storyline, see below: "Season 6 plot summary".
On May 7, 2007, ABC Entertainment President Stephen McPherson announced that Lost would end during the 2009–2010 season with a "highly anticipated and shocking finale". "
We felt that this was the only way to give Lost a proper creative conclusion," McPherson said.
Beginning with the 2007–2008 television season, the final 48 episodes would have been aired as three seasons with 16 episodes each, with Lost concluding in its sixth season.
Due to the 2007-2008 writers' strike, the fourth season featured 14 episodes, and season 5 had 17 episodes.
Season six was planned to have 17 episodes, too.
However, on June 29 it was announced that the final season would feature an additional hour, making the number of episodes 18.
Executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse stated that they "always envisioned Lost as a show with a beginning, middle, and end," and that by announcing when the show would end that viewers would "have the security of knowing that the story will play out as we've intended."
Lindelof and Cuse stated that securing the 2010 series-end date "was immensely liberating" and helped the series rediscover its focus.<ref name="TV Guide 2008-03">{{cite web |url=http://www.tvguide.com/cover-story/lost-killer-season/080305-03 |title=Lost'''s Killer Season |accessdate=March 20, 2008 |author=Malcom, Shawna |date=March 5, 2008 |work=TV Guide |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/65ISP2SUS?url=http://www.tvguide.com/cover-story/lost-killer-season/080305-03 |archivedate=February 8, 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> Lindelof noted, "We're no longer stalling."
The producers also planned to wrap up long-standing mysteries, such as the nature of the smoke monster, the reason the Dharma periodic resupply drops continue after the purge, and the "bird" from "Exodus Pt.
2" and "Live Together, Die Alone Pt.
While the destruction of the four-toed statue of Taweret was revealed in the ninth episode of the final season, Lindelof hinted that the identity  of the statue's builders would not be addressed.
The producer also indicated that Walt's unusual abilities may be explained, although not necessarily with the character's direct involvement.
In a podcast, Cuse and Lindelof stated that they would explain the "Rules" first stated in an episode in season four, but only those that are "important for the narrative they are telling."
Matthew Fox said in an interview that in the final season, the characters of Jack Shephard and John Locke "will come head to head."
It was also claimed that a third of the way through the final season, the two timelines would be "solidified into one" and "will be very linear – no more flashbacks, nothing;" however this was still not the case by the season midpoint.
He also claimed to be the only cast member to know the ending of the series, though Lindelof has clarified that Fox only knew things that were relevant to his character.
During Comic-Con 2009, numerous sixth-season reports were made.
Carlton Cuse stated both the time travel and flash-forward seasons were over, and they were moving into something different for the sixth season.
Josh Holloway stated his character Sawyer would revert to his old self after the loss of Juliet.
Though Cuse and Lindelof stated that the Dharma Initiative would no longer play a large role in the show, they have said that the "Dharma-Michigan connection" would play a significant role in season six.
Lindelof stated that the producers had a direct hand in the production of the season six promotional poster that was first displayed at Comic-Con, and that everything in it was intentional; he also made a reference to the Abbey Road cover in connection to the poster.
Season six was the first and only season of Lost ever to not feature any kind of preview or official promotional material such as sneak peeks and promo pictures for future episodes since the Lost producers considered any single frame from the first episodes to be too revealing.
According to Lindelof, "even a single scene from the show would basically tip what it is we're doing this year, and what it is we're doing this year is different than what we've done in other years."
Lindelof has also emphasized that the flashes-sideways are important, stating "People are saying [they] don't need these stories and all we can say is they're absolutely 100 percent necessary to tell the story of Lost, and hopefully by the end of the season it will be more obvious as to why."
He also noted that the term "flash-sideways" was deliberately used instead of "alternate reality" because viewers might otherwise "infer that one of them isn't real, or one of them is real and the other is the alternate to being real."
When asked to describe the last three episodes, Lindelof said "Water."
The cast features fifteen major roles with star billing: eleven return from the fifth season, one returns from the fourth season after a year's absence, and three are new regular cast members.
Unlike the latter half of the previous season, in which the cast was divided into two groups following two separate storylines, Season Six features an alternate universe scenario which the producers call "flash-sideways," and almost all the main characters participate in both storylines.
Returning from the fifth season are the survivors' leader Dr. Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox); former fugitive Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly); millionaire Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (Jorge Garcia); former torturer Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews); con artist James "Sawyer" Ford (Josh Holloway); medium Miles Straume (Ken Leung); former mob-enforcer Jin-Soo Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim) and his privileged wife Sun Kwon (Yunjin Kim); leader of the island's native population (known as the "Others") Ben Linus (Michael Emerson); and deceased crash survivor John Locke, who lives on in the sideways timeline but has been possessed in the original timeline by the mysterious Man In Black.
Emilie de Ravin returns in her role as Claire Littleton, a new mother who was absent for one season after disappearing on the Island, and Henry Ian Cusick also returns as Desmond Hume, who starts the season off the Island.
The new main cast roles go to  pilot Frank Lapidus (Jeff Fahey), Richard Alpert (Nestor Carbonell), an ageless advisor to the Others, and mysterious Flight 316 leader Ilana Verdansky (Zuleikha Robinson).
Carbonell was named a main cast member by the executive producers at Comic-Con 2009, after guest starring in the previous three seasons, and Fahey and Robinson were confirmed after appearing in recurring roles in the fourth and fifth seasons.
Several former cast members are scheduled to return to the show, or have been asked back.
Elizabeth Mitchell returns as fertility specialist Dr. Juliet Burke.
Mitchell has stated that her return is "instrumental to the story".
Dominic Monaghan returned as rock star Charlie Pace in four episodes.
Jeremy Davies returned as physicist Daniel Faraday in multiple episodes.
Ian Somerhalder also returned as Flight 815 crash survivor Boone Carlyle in several episodes.
Rebecca Mader, who portrays anthropologist Charlotte Lewis, also returned.
The producers have also confirmed that Harold Perrineau and Cynthia Watros, who portray Michael Dawson and Libby Smith, respectively, returned in the second half of the season.
About the return of Libby, Cuse stated, "Finally, all of your questions [about Libby] will be answered", however, Lindelof jokingly responded, "No, they will not".
Michelle Rodriguez, another second season star, returned as police officer Ana Lucia Cortez, following a brief cameo in the fifth season.
Maggie Grace, who portrays Shannon Rutherford, Boone's stepsister, was asked to return at the beginning of the season, but Grace was unable due to her schedule; she appeared later in the season, instead.
Furthermore, the producers wished to bring back the character of Walt Lloyd, however Malcolm David Kelley, who portrays Walt, has aged significantly and the producers are working to overcome this obstacle.
Recurring characters who returned include: Jack and Claire's father, Dr. Christian Shephard (John Terry), wealthy industrialist and former Other Charles Widmore (Alan Dale), Desmond's wife Penny Widmore (Sonya Walger), former Other Eloise Hawking (Fionnula Flanagan), Locke's ex-girlfriend, Helen Norwood (Katey Sagal), Hurley's former boss, Randy Nations (Billy Ray Gallion), mysterious Flight 316 passenger Bram (Brad William Henke), Sayid's wife, Nadia (Andrea Gabriel), deceased Frenchwoman Danielle Rousseau (Mira Furlan), science teacher Leslie Arzt (Daniel Roebuck), the Others' doctor Ethan Rom (William Mapother), Ben Linus' father Roger (Jon Gries), mercenaries Martin Keamy (Kevin Durand) and Omar (Anthony Azizi), and Vincent, a dog who survived the crash of Flight 815 and lives on the island.
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Mark Pellegrino returns in his role as Jacob, the mysterious figure in charge of the island, while Titus Welliver also reprises his role as the mysterious unnamed character, known only as "The Man in Black", who appeared to be antagonistic to him in the season 5 finale.
L. Scott Caldwell and Sam Anderson returned in their roles as Rose and Bernard respectively, as does Kimberley Joseph who plays 815 stewardess-turned-Other Cindy.
Also, Academy Award-winner Fisher Stevens returns as communications officer George Minkowski from the first few episodes of the fourth season in the eleventh episode.
Kevin Tighe returns as Anthony Cooper, Locke's father.
Several new recurring characters were introduced in the sixth season.
Deadwood actor John Hawkes was cast to portray a character named Lennon and Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada obtained the role of ; both men are Others stationed at the temple.
Also, William Atherton was cast in a guest role as the principal of the school where Ben works.
Sheila Kelley has been cast in a recurring role that was initially described as "Kendall" and later confirmed to be "Zoe".
EpisodesAlso see: List of Lost episodes.
The season premiered on February 2, 2010, with a double-length episode (two hours including commercials) preceded by a one-hour clip show, entitled "Lost: Final Chapter".
The show continued from February 9 at its new timeslot of Tuesdays at 9 pm, with a total of 18 episodes airing in 16 broadcasts, ending with a two and a half hour, two-part series finale, the latter part of which aired Sunday, May 23, 2010.
Additionally, the first hour of the premiere episode was screened to an estimated 15,000 fans on Waikiki Beach on January 30.
In the following table, "Series #" refers to the episode's number in the overall series, whereas "Season #" refers to the episode's number in this particular season. "
U.S. viewers in millions" refers to the number of Americans in millions who watched the episodes live or recorded them and watched them within seven days of broadcast.
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Season 6 plot summary
The sixth season followed two timelines, each an outcome of the explosion of a hydrogen bomb in the previous season finale.
In the first timeline (referred to as "flash sideways"), Oceanic Flight 815 never crashes but lands with all leaving the airplane at Los Angeles LAX airport.
In the second timeline, the remaining survivors return to the present day (on the Island) and must deal with the demise of Jacob, whose death has been caused by the mysterious Man in Black, the Smoke Monster.
According to show producer Damon Lindelof, the term "flash-sideways" was deliberately used instead of "alternate reality" because it might then imply "that one of them isn't real, or one of them is real and the other is the alternate to being real."
On the island, it is revealed that, long long ago, infant Jacob and his brother were stolen, from their birth mother, by a woman who raised them to become protectors of the island, after her.
At the hidden center of the island, is a waterfall cave containing a bright power source.
Jacob (with blond hair) and his brother (with black hair, symbolizing white and black) grow up with opposing viewpoints.
Jacob stays loyal to his adoptive mother, but his brother joins with outsiders on the island.
When the brother reveals that they have dug into the core of the island, tapping an underground power to escape, the mother hits the brother with a rock, and she destroys the people in their village.
She then chooses Jacob to drink the water of immortality.
His brother awakens to see the burned village, and seeking revenge, he finds and kills his adoptive mother.
Jacob discovers her dead body, and in turn, throws his brother into the waterfall cave, transforming him into the black Smoke Monster.
Now centuries later, among the survivors, the Smoke Monster assumes the form of John Locke, returned to the island in a coffin.
This Locke had convinced Ben to enter the seaside cave and stab Jacob, who fell into the fire and died.
With many survivors believing that Locke has been resurrected, they follow him in various plans to leave the island.
In one plan, they overthrow the guards at Widmore's submarine, and leave the island, unaware that a time bomb is inside the submarine.
Jack (the doctor) discovers the time bomb, advising them not to disarm it while reasoning that the Smoke Monster cannot kill anyone directly.
Instead, Sawyer (Ford) refuses to listen and pulls the bomb wires, which, instead, causes the bomb to count down faster.
Sayid grabs the bomb and runs through the submarine, sacrificing himself to shield the others from the bomb blast.
However, the bomb splits the submarine walls, and while sinking, Sun-Hwa is trapped in the wreckage, but Jin stays with her, vowing to never leave her side again, as they both die underwater.
Jack swims, with a breathing tube, to the surface and back to shore.
He tells the rest that Sun and Jin did not escape.
In anger, Kate vows to kill John Locke, for what he has done to their friends.
Sayyid (the  Iraqi guard), Richard, and Miles (son of the DHARMA leader) go to the other island to destroy the airplane.
However, crossing at sea, they find the pilot adrift, who convinces them to repair the airplane to escape later.
The spirit of Jacob asks who among them would become Protector of the island, and Jack volunteers.
At the waterfall cave, Jack drinks the water of immortality and returns to the group.
Jack says they must meet with Locke and Desmond to settle the dispute and kill Locke.
The 2 groups meet on the hilltop, and just the 3 proceed toward the waterfall cave.
There, Desmond descends on a rope into the cave, but pulls a rock from the bottom, which puts out the light of the power source.
The island begins a series of earthquake tremors, to fall into the sea, with rocks tumbling into the water.
Locke flees the area, now needing to get the sailboat to the other island: he has lost his immortality when the light source was put out.
Jack chases him to the sea cliffs to stop him from leaving, and a long fight begins.
Locke grabs a knife and stabs Jack in the side, then forces the knife up to Jack's neck.
Before plunging the knife, a gunshot is heard: Kate as promised, has shot Locke (the Smoke Monster) in the back, and Jack pushes him off the sea cliff, to die on the rocks below.
Jack tells them he must return to the island core, as he promised Jacob, to restore the light at the waterfall cave.
He instructs Kate to leave with Sawyer to get Claire into the airplane on the other island.
Kate in turmoil kisses Jack goodbye, fearing it will be the last time.
Kate and Sawyer jump into the sea and swim to the sailboat at anchor.
Hurley and Ben help Jack return to the waterfall cave.
They lower Jack into the cave, where he revives and ties Desmond to the rope.
Jack then puts the missing stone back into the floor, and restarts the light power source.
When Hurley and Ben pull the rope, they find only Desmond.
They call below, but Jack, overcome by the knife wound and rushing water, never answered, so they take Desmond away from the area.
Some time later, Jack awakens, alone, outside the cave, as if lifted from the depth of the cave by an unseen force.
Dazed, he wanders through the jungle, but he is losing strength.
Just as with Locke's death, Jack also lost his immortality, and protection, at the first time the light source was put out.
Jack falls to the ground, looking up to the blue sky.
At that point, he sees Kate's plane flying far overhead, and then closes his eyes, for the last time.
Jack has become a neurosurgeon (a doctor who heals nerves) in the U.S., married to Juliet with a teenage son.
Kate has returned, as a prisoner, but in trying to escape, she is re-arrested by Sawyer (Ford), who is a police officer.
Charlie is a member of the rock band Drive Shaft, with piano player Daniel Faraday (the physicist), who is a son of Charles Widmore.
Desmond is still an employee of Charles Widmore, unaware he has a daughter named Penny.
Claire is still pregnant, but staying with her half-brother Jack and his son.
Benjamin Linus is a school teacher, and John Locke is a substitute teacher there.
Hurley is the lottery winner, who meets a blonde girl who looks like Libby, and she vaguely remembers him, as if from being on some island.
Soon after returning on Flight 815, Desmond has been tasked to ensure that bandmember Charlie stays sober to appear at a benefit concert for Charles Widmore.
Charlie keeps talking about some imaginary, profound romance with a blonde girl, as if in some dream.
Trying to rebel against Desmond, he grabs the steering wheel, and the car goes into the harbor.
Underwater, looking back inside the car to save Charlie, he remembers seeing "NOT PENNY'S BOAT" written on Charlie's hand, but not actually, then pulls him to the surface.
They get rescued to the hospital, and Desmond asks, "Who is Penny?".
Some memories come back, and Desmond begins to orchestrate a plan: at the school, he hits John Locke with his car, causing him to need surgery, led by Jack Shephard at the hospital.
Desmond turns himself in to the police station for Sawyer, who puts him in a jail cell near Kate and Sayid.
Meanwhile, Hurley has been hired to free Kate, Sayid and Desmond by paying Officer Ana Lucia to detour the prison van to the harbor.
They get in 2 cars, and make plans to attend the benefit concert.
Desmond and Kate drive to the church, where Desmond meets the funeral van, to accept the casket of Christian Shephard (Jack's father) into the chapel.
This same day, John Locke has a 2nd spinal surgery, by Jack, and regains feeling in his legs.
Coming to the hospital to visit Sun-Hwa, the police officer Sawyer (Ford) meets Juliet at the snack machines, where they both suddenly remember their parallel life, 3 years together on the island.
Now nighttime, Hurley drives Sayid to a backstreet, saying that he knows he is really a good guy: a fight breaks out in the alley, and a girl shouts, "Don't hurt my brother!"
Sayid, instinctively, jumps out to rescue her.
When he sees her face, he remembers her: "Shannon?"
Her stepbrother, Boone goes to the van and tells Hurley, he is glad Sayid finally arrived because he was getting tired of staging the alley fight for them.
Desmond attends the concert, where Daniel Faraday's mother talks to Desmond about the secret plan.
While performing on stage, Charlie recognizes Claire in the audience, as the girl of his dreams, when she leaves to give birth to her son, assisted by Kate to get to the hospital.
Finally, Kate has convinced Jack (only partially aware of his parallel memories) to drive to the church, intended for his father's funeral.
There, he enters the chapel, and upon touching his father's casket, he too begins to remember everything from the Island, all of them, including his years spent with Kate.
However, upon opening the casket, he finds it empty: his father has assumed a spirit form, and reminds him that he, too, died on the island, in his other life, which was as real as the present day.
They both enter the church, where all the former islanders have gathered: Sun with Jin; Sawyer with Juliet; Sayid with Shannon; Rose with Bernard; Hurley with Libby (etc.).
Even Desmond and Penny are together there, remembering their parallel life and birth of their child.
Everyone who recently landed with Oceanic Flight 815, now greet and hug each other as if old friends, remembering how, once, they all were lost'' but now they have found each other.
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