003 Foster+Partners Mouzhan Majidi

摘要

As Foster + Partners' Battersea office comes into view, I look up. There in the window I see the great man himself, Norman Foster in profile, in a grey polo neck, chin nestled in his hands, looking intently ahead. After a very wobbly start to 2009, which saw more than 300 redundancies and two office closures, could Foster be reflecting on how to save his architectural empire from further shrinkage?