Foster + Partners

Foster + Partners

Our Approach

Foster + Partners is a global studio for sustainable architecture, urbanism and design, founded by Norman Foster in 1967. Since then, he and the team around him have established an international practice with a worldwide reputation. With offices across the globe, we work as a single studio that is both ethnically and culturally diverse.
Sustainability is at the heart of everything we undertake. We audit all projects against global standards, while developing bespoke strategies that drive our environmental agenda. To build sustainably requires us to design holistically, and our unique integrated design approach enables us to develop innovative strategies that have a firm focus on the future of the environment.
Structural and environmental engineers, together with many other specialist design teams, work alongside the architects to devise fully integrated design solutions. Every project starts with fresh thinking, leading to a solution that is tailor-made to both site and user. Design is typically undertaken by a small, close-knit team; the team that starts a project sees it through to completion, thus providing continuity throughout. It is now possible to consider the built environment as a totality, and to apply a truly holistic approach to responsible design.

Integrated Design

Integrated design reflects an understanding of the wider context of a building – from the scale of the city to the door handle. The nature of our design team echoes the practice’s design approach where architects, engineers, urban designers, industrial designers and other specialists work closely from the outset, learning from one another and combining their skills to devise fully integrated sustainable design solutions. We believe the best design solutions come from a completely integrated approach, from conception to delivery. By involving all of the critical design disciplines from the earliest stages, a project can be optimised in response to the opportunities and constraints presented by the site and the brief.

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