Norman Foster

But when you're designing for the clean sheet of paper, the old airports that were originally designed, you'd be able to, which were just simply a box on an airfield, you enter this shed and you can see the aircraft right through.

I know Sir Norman Foster, like when he was designing Beijing Airport, for example, wanted to follow that similar approach where the idea is as you get dropped off on the curb, you'd want to be able to see your aircraft from that check-in point.

Now to do that on a scale of serving 70 million passengers a year in a terminal is very ambitious, but I think it's good to keep that as one of your fundamental drivers.

So the way we can do that Hectonically through a building is the use of, for example, skylights in order to guide you towards the direction that you need to move.

hello and welcome to the world nuclear news podcast i'm alex hunt this is a bonus episode bringing you a speech delivered by the multi-award winning architect and peer lord norman foster whose landmark works across the world range from the gherkin building in london to the hsbc building in hong kong to apple park in california he was speaking at the world nuclear symposium During it, he set out his vision for the wider use of nuclear energy and what he calls the electrical revolution, which he says is on a par with the industrial revolution of the 19th century.

Here's the speech.

We all know about the climate crisis, global warming and the threat.

So I think that nuclear has a critical role, industrialised nuclear, in that world picture.

I've promoted, championed the cause of nuclear since my relatively recent conversion to the cause, discreetly through the corridors of power, and changed the policy of at least one nation.

Through the Norman Foster Institute, which has a one-year master's course for civic leaders of the future, those leaders are aware of the potential, and already we have one mayor in place and many people in town halls.

They have been able, through that course, to separate fear from the physics, to come down to the realities of the data over prejudice and emotion.

So you could say that I'm your ambassador for an exciting new nuclear future.

... about this.

I'm, I mean, maybe I'm utterly wrong about this, but I don't think Norman Foster and the team when they designed the Gherkin-

Yeah

... actually went, "You know what?" It, they might have secretly said it looks like a gherkin.

80% of the 105-acre site is given over to vegetation, with some 9,000 native and drought-resistant trees having been planted, including apricot, plum, and of course apple trees, all in a nod to Silicon Valley's agricultural past when the site of fruit orchards was common here.

Designed in collaboration with architect Norman Foster and Apple's longtime in-house chief designer Johnny Ive, Jobs wanted the four-story structure immersed in nature to create a sanctuary-like space.

Every level has an open floor plan and is clad in thousands of curved floor-to-ceiling glass panels that continue around the ring-shaped building.

The aim was to encourage the free flow of ideas and chance meetings between staff.

and become the most incredible society to ever live, so we are told.

Let's advance our tools from 1928 to the year 2001, when they announced that Norman Foster would design a tower addition, with them giving us actual documented accounts, saying that they had to review the plans, also saying that they decided to restrict visitor access and relocate the tower's core.

Destruction of the past? You tell me.

So in April 2003, work began.

And from there, they transformed into a cons- uh, into a, into a consultant, uh, shop that I im- you know, that I immediately took advantage of, and they're now doing projects like, or advising and consulting into projects like Kora.

Uh, uh, a, a beautiful project in Cascais, uh, Portugal that Norman Foster is designing called Atol.

Uh, and uh, they have been able to really immerse themselves into the latest technology of wellness and transform a, a, a, you know, a project.

And, and of course, uh, my house [laughs] for the better part of the decade has been the guinea pig, uh, you know, of all these, of, of all these technologies, including the water filtration, the, the, the, the a- the air filtration, the red light therapy, and the EMF blockers, and, uh, and it's helped.

And we're thrilled that our interviewee in this episode is one of the most influential architects of our time, David Chipperfield.

David grew up on a farm in southwest England and worked for Britain's architectural grandees, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster, before opening his own practice in 1985.

David Chipperfield Architects now has offices in Berlin, London, Milan, Santiago de Compostela and Shanghai.

It's responsible for many memorable buildings, from the Neues Museum in Berlin to the Royal Academy in London and the San Michele Cemetery in Venice.

It looks like it's possible, but I kind of doubt it.

If this was a Norman Foster project, he would design that Ferris wheel.

It's the first thing I saw.

I was like, where's

I'm not sure if that particularly helps.

But apparently the Apple Store, which is a beautiful Norman Foster and Sons designed straw on the river.

Beautiful straw.

Absolute death trap to birds because they refuse to do anything about it.