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"Arguably the world's most influential architect, Norman Foster has contributed scores of iconic structures to the global skyline, many bearing witness to innovative explorations of his favorite materials: glass and steel. The transparent atrium roofs and domes created by Lord Foster's mightily talented London-based firm have revivified and reorganized such cultural centers as the British Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Foster + Partners' skyscrapers are brilliantly idiosyncratic, rising here like an upended dirigible (30 St. Mary Axe in London) or there as a boldly faceted totem (the Hearst Tower, New York City). Grand gestures aren't its only m\u00E9tier, however. The company has also designed smaller buildings (a French villa, Manhattan's Sperone Westwater gallery) that embody, on an intimate scale, the adventuresome purity of its larger works. fosterandpartners.com\n\nMeet the other architects and designers on the 2012 AD100 list."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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