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Norman Foster

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374 total appearances

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

Obviously those architects were there.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

They didn't have a name.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

It was more anonymous if you fast-forward Yes names are known I think your star architect really inevitably some architects do the kinds of buildings that that attract attention but also if I take a

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

And you're looking at me when you're using that word.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

Sure.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

I can't help it.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

But I would like to take you to a little building in Manchester called Maggie's, which is a cancer research station.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

I'd like to take you to a small chapel, which is the tiniest building that we've done on an island in Venice.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

And each in these different ways, particularly the Maggie's or some of the hospital health work that we've done, is in its impact,

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

really, really significant.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

But it's not necessarily newsworthy because it doesn't happen to be Pace, the model behind us, the biggest of its kind at that time, or the highest of its kind, or if it's Mio Viaduct.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

So in many ways, what is newsworthy is not necessarily what is the most important of its time.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

Absolutely.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

Thank you.

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