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Norman Foster was born in Manchester in 1935. Here he studied architecture and town planning before going on to Yale, where as holder of the Henry Fellowship he completed his postgraduate studies in architecture. In 1967 he created his studio, Foster Associates, currently known as Foster and Partners, which has been the base for his activity in recent years. Foster’s studio has its headquarters in London and project offices throughout the world. The architect has worked in 48 countries, and is currently involved in projects in 22 nations. Since the start of its professional activities, the Norman Foster studio has received around 300 prizes and awards, and has won over 65 national and international competitions. Major creations of Foster and Partners are Chek Lap Kok airport in Hong Kong; the headquarters of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank in the same city and of the Commerzbank in Frankfurt; Stansted Airport, London; the Century Tower in Tokyo; the Carré d’Art (art gallery and cultural centre) in Nimes, the Sackler Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts, London; the Willis, Faber & Dumas Headquarters, Ipswich; and the University of East Anglia Sainsbury Visual Arts Centre, Norwich (England). Among his most recent projects are the new international airport at Peking, the new German Parliament building for the Reichstag in Berlin, the Swiss Re headquarters building, the Great Court of the British Museum, the London Millennium Bridge and the pedestrianisation of Trafalgar Square in London, the new Singapore Supreme Court building, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Dallas Opera.