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How the Brits Stole High-Tech
American architects invented the style, but Brits like Norman Foster made it sing.
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Herbert Ortner, via Wikimedia Commons. -
Sandstein, a.k.a. TheBernFiles, via Wikimedia Commons. -
Reinhard Höll, via Wikimedia Commons. -
courtesy of Christie's. -
Ilpo's Sojourn, via Wikimedia Commons. -
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Allan Ferguson, via Wikimedia Commons. -
Seth Tisue, via Wikimedia Commons. -
Till F. Teenck, via Wikimedia Commons. -
heena_mistry, via Wikimedia Commons. -
Plindberg, via Wikimedia Commons. -
Harry Wilson, via Wikimedia Commons. -
Oxyman, via Wikimedia Commons. -
AgnosticPreachersKid, via Wikimedia Commons.
Excerpted from The Biography of a Building: How Robert Sainsbury and Norman Foster Built a Great Museum by Witold Rybczynski, published this month in London and New York by Thames & Hudson.