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Norman Foster and the British Museum
by Norman Foster (Introduction), Deyan Sudjic, Spencer De Grey

Paperback - 120 pages (August 2001)
Prestel USA
ISBN: 3791325418

An introductory essay by Deyan Sudjic presents the Great Court as the culmination of centuries of change within the Museum .a reconciliation of past and future, which has both restored and transfigured the heart of this public institution. Spencer de Grey, a partner at Foster and Partners, documents the design and construction of the individual elements within the Great Court and the vast glazed canopy, which surmounts them. Introduced by Norman Foster and richly illustrated with photographs of...