Norman Foster argues that Artificial Intelligence is inherently backward-looking as it is based on accumulated historical data, and therefore cannot generate truly novel architectural concepts.

Norman Foster asserts that Margaret Thatcher's policies dismantled the industrial base of the United Kingdom, which led to a decline in the societal status of manufacturing and craft skills.

Norman Foster criticizes the United Kingdom for abandoning its high-speed rail project from London to Manchester, calling it an example of "short-termism."

Norman Foster states that 90% of vehicles in major Chinese cities are now electric.

According to Norman Foster, major Chinese cities like Shanghai and Beijing have achieved 50% green space coverage over the last few decades.

Norman Foster believes architectural and urban planning education needs reassessment because it teaches architects to design buildings in isolation and does not focus on designing streets.

Norman Foster advocates for a design process where all disciplines, including architects and engineers, work together from the project's outset, contrary to traditional siloed approaches taught in sch...

The Masdar Institute campus is a totally solar-powered community designed by applying historical architectural principles for passive cooling in a desert environment.

The Willis Faber headquarters, built in the 1970s, was designed with enough flexibility to adapt from a typewriter-based office to the digital revolution without requiring a new building.

The Hong Kong Bank headquarters was designed without a traditional central core, which unexpectedly allowed it to accommodate a large, open trading floor, a requirement that emerged after the initial ...

China's high-speed rail network connects 97% of its cities and carries 13 million travelers on a peak day.

The Yale School of Architecture requires first-year students to design and physically build a house that is then inhabited by a family.

The design for the Bloomberg headquarters in London incorporated the historic Roman Watling Street as a public arcade through the building to break down its scale and integrate it with the neighborhoo...

China has constructed over 54,000 kilometers of high-speed rail in 16 years, which is more than the rest of the world's total combined.

The main airport in Beijing was constructed in five years, while London Heathrow's Terminal 5 took 20 years and is a fraction of the size.

In the post-World War II era of austerity, the United Kingdom developed the world's first nuclear power station and the first commercial jet, the de Havilland Comet.