Norman Foster

Norman Foster was born 1^st of June in 1935 in Manchester, England. He is another famous British architect. He went to Manchester university school in 1961, after graduating he went to Yale University where he gained a masters degree in Architecture. Norman foster is a founder in Foster and Partners which was found in 1967. This company is spread through the world and has designed many famous buildings and bridges. Some of his famous bridges: Millennium bridge which is in UK, Arsta bridge which is in Sweden as well as Millau Viaduct which is constructed in France. He had an exhibition in UK called National Police memorial which was in 1996-2005.

My concentration of his work was the bridge that was designed and constructed in UK which is called Millennium Bridge. Official name for this bridge is London Millennium Footbridge. Is is a pedestrian bridge which crosses river Thames. It is very long (1,214ft which is equivalent to 370 metres long). The width of this bridge is 13ft (4metres). It was first opened in the middle of 2000 which was 2 months late then was planned and it is a type of a suspension bridge. The bridge was temporally closed in 2007 because of the Kyrill storm as they were worried that the pedestrians might be blown off.

I haven't seen the bridge live myself but I seen it in the pictures and I do think it was quite hard to design however I don't see it very interesting or unique its simple but I think that's exactly what they wanted for it to be simple but very well done. I do think however they did a very good job as it had many modifications which just shows how well they wanted it to work out at the end and to be as safe as possible.