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Article: FOSTER SECURES HIS LEGACY
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- The Architects' Journal
- Article date:
- May 17, 2007
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Norman Foster is used to media attention and, in the 40-year history of Foster + Partners, has become adept at avoiding it.
But not on Wednesday last week. An excited call from the 71 year old's PR to the AJ's news desk ended with these words: 'Get down here by four; the deal is being signed at quarter past...'
'Here' is Foster + Partners' riverside HQ in Battersea, south London, and the 'deal' was private-equity investor 3i's decision to buy a minority stake in the firm, valuing it at £300 million.
So to 22 Hester Road where, after passing a row of around 40 stylish and mostly young architects squeezed into a long, narrow café bar, the familiar tanned face of Lord Foster of Thames Bank ...