Foster + Partners completes Haramain High Speed Rail

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Architects
Foster + Partners
Design team
Norman Foster, Luke Fox, Angus Campbell, Tony Miki, Young Wei-Yang Chiu, Pearl Tang, Perry Ip, Diego Bleck, Jurgen Kuppers, Angelika Kovacic, Seif A Bahaa Eldin, Vincent Westbrook, Jayendra Shah, Yusuke Tsutsui, Dirk Jantz, Eirini Kouka, Melissa Clinch, Oliver Flindall, Takuji Hasegawa, Merino Ranallo, Huw Thomas, Alistair Lenczner, D'Arcy Fenton, Sam Van Welden, Andrew Gardner, Yu-La Kim, Will Chan, Julian Sattler, Piotr Ehrenhalt, Siriwat Patchimasiri, Francisca Estarellas Galmes, Mark Thompson, Matilde Napoleao, Matthew Fajkus, Hector Pascalidis, Premveer Nagpal, Lorena Franco
Collaborators
Structural Consultant, Mechanical Engineers + Joint Venture Partner.- Buro Happold. Cost Consultant.- Davis Langdon. Landscape Consultant.- Captiva Lovejoy. Lighting Engineers.- Jason Bruges / Buro Happold. Shadow Operator.- Steer Davies Gleave. People Movement.- Steer Davies Gleave. Natural Stone Consultant.- Sandberg. Daylight Design.- Bartenbach LichtLabor. Façade and Roof Access.- Hoare Lea. Local Consultant.- DAR Al Riyadh
Client
Saudi Rail Organisation
Area
459797.0 m²
Dates
2019

NORMAN FOSTER

Norman Foster is considered by many to be the most prominent architect in Britain. He won the 1999 Pritzker Architecture Prize and the 2009 Príncipe de Asturias de las Artes Prize.

Lord Foster rebuilt the Reichstag as a new German Parliament in Berlin and designed a contemporary Great Court for the British Museum. He linked St. Paul's Cathedral to the Tate Modern with the Millennium Bridge, a steel footbridge across the Thames. He designed the Hearst Corporation Building in Manhattan, at 57th Street and Eighth Avenue.

He was born in Manchester, England, in 1935. Among his firm’s many other projects are London’s City Hall, the Bilbao Metro in Spain, the Canary Wharf Underground Station in London and the renovated courtyard of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery in Washington.

In the 1970s, Lord Foster was one of the most visible practitioners of a high-tech architecture that fetishized machine culture. His triumphant 1986 Hong Kong and Shanghai bank building, conceived as a kit-of-parts plugged into a towering steel frame, was capitalism's answer to the populist Pompidou Center in Paris.

Nicolai Ouroussoff, The Times’s architecture critic, has written that although Lord Foster’s work has become sleeker and more predictable in recent years, his forms are always driven by an internal structural logic, and they treat their surroundings with a refreshing bluntness.

Awarded the Prince of Asturias of the Arts 2009.


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